explaining! my main goal was to make them different and colorful. everything else is secondary. i didn't really try to make them realistic, i didn't really try to make them historical. this is character design, right? so, the main thing is that everyone is readable and unique among others in their environment. if you don't confuse anyone, then i've made it, hehe!
i made them colorful because, firstly, i just like it that way, and secondly, it's customary to exaggerate book characters for illustrations so that the image is brighter and more recognizable. if i were drawing as if for a movie/series, i would have done it differently. but this is a book. and, as i like to say, am i studying to be a theater artist for nothing... 🤫
also i was laughing so hard at the song from bratz that i used for speedpaint because it was too funny to finish the work with. enjoy JHSJSHSHDH
a few words about each one, not in the order in the picture:
i had an idea to draw aramis a popular type of lovelock at that time - with a ribbon of his beloved's favorite color. this hairstyle was also worn together with pearl in the left ear. i learned about it from another artist, and then i read about it on the internet in more detail. and when i sketched him for the first time, i drew it exactly like that, but this time i already came to the idea that, unfortunately, he would hardly wear such a hairstyle in reality. in the first book he hides the woman's identity until the end, when everything has long been obvious to everyone 😭 so there would hardly be any hint in his appearance about his lady. fanfact, his heel is slightly higher than the others. aramis, the man you are 💅 and i also really ask you to take a closer look at aramis's hairstyle, i left a tiny detail there. it's right there in plain sight and it's hidden in the styling!!
porthos is associated with warm colors for me, because he's such a silly, but together with aramis and d'artagnan it turned into one spot. so i went with the second option - blue, because i really liked that he appeared in sky blue before d'artagnan when they galloped after the duke, even though it was already in the second book. he turned out so charming, wahaha.
i think olive is the perfect choice for athos in the first book. depressive, long-term drunkard, but a nobleman undercover. matching? also, i have a headcanon that athos is this much 🤏 shorter than d'artagnan and aramis. just because it's funny. and those two are about the same, because it was specified in the book that they have the same size
d'artagnan is simple, yellow-brown - a young provincial, even the collar does not really match the shirt. where will he get the money for a collar for each shirt... but he's the only one with a bright feather, the mc after all! if you look closely, the feathers of all the others do not stand out so much. that's how it was intended. btw, his shirt is a little yellowing, if you look closely, you can see it
i really like it when all the characters has their own little things. their own collars, their own way of wearing jackboots, their own little details of the sleeves. i drew simply, but put my soul into it. i tried to put a lot into the form, both in general and in the details, and although i could explain absolutely everything, i would like you to look closely at it yourself 💝
So at work, we get half an hour in the morning to warm up and draw whatever we like. I’m not sure how far this goes towards improving my artistic integrity but I’m pretty sure it’s still important.
Gentleman Bastard themed playing cards (or, a Carousel Hazard deck ambiguously appropriated into an illustrated poker deck). Done as part of the GB chat’s Secret Sanza.
Featuring:
Mister of Chalices: Locke Lamora
Mistress of Chalices: Jean Tannen
Sigil of Chalices: Bug
Mister of Sabres: Grey King
Mistress of Sabres: Zamira Drakasha
Sigil of Sabres: Ezri Delmastro
Mister of Flowers: Patience
Mistress of Flowers: Sabetha Belacoros
Sigil of Flowers: Falconer
Mister of Spires: Capa Barsavi
Mistress of Spires: Requin
Sigil of Spires: Father Chains
Jokers: Calo and Galdo Sanza
(Trivia: The big symbol on the backside is something of a personal headcanon shorthand for the twelve plus one gods. Also, the drop shapes on Two of Chalices symbolise the tears of readers everywhere.)
Next in "my comfort characters are the worst people I love them so much", I name Jorg Ancrath. I hope I got the scar on the right side of his face but, after flipping the canvas so much, I'm just not sure of what left and right even are anymore.
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