Nikolai And The Queen

Part 5/6 - Prince Humperdinck and Count Rugen (The Prince and the Count)

     Part 1 - The Family | 2 - Style | 3 - The Sicilian Assassins | 4 - Buttercup and Westley | 6 - Florin Castle

I loved Chris Sarandon's curls so although I eventually went in the direction of a shorter cut for Humperdinck, I wanted to keep some sort of waviness to his hair. I also wanted to make sure that it was clear that Humperdinck is a hunter and at the same time have an almost wild and animal-like feeling to him so the wavy hair helped bring it to that direction.

In the books Humperdinck is described as "weighed close to 250 pounds, brick hard". Although in the books he is not tall, I did not want the leading antagonists of both the first and back half of the series to BOTH be short (Vizzini and Humperdinck). Felt like I would be sending a not so good message.

For Count Rugen, I went with black so that there would be a transfer of association from Man-in-Black/Dread Pirate Roberts/Secretly Westley in the first part of the series to Count Rugen later on. Diagonal slashes on clothing was a more northern style plus it makes him look even more like death which is in line with the whole Executioner-Grim Reaper direction I wanted to go with him.

Differentiating him from Inigo was also important. So although I went towards a thin direction for both, everything else about them is a contrast. While Inigo was meant to have a flamboyance and a certain “Fencing is life and my passion” feeling, for Count Rugen the idea was that although he is a master Fencer, his purpose is death and fencing is one of the ways he does it kind of thing.

A rough variation of the “For Once in My Life” singer (the main character in this short storyboard I sketched up one night a few weeks ago). This was an experiment on a more boxy and square design, although I think I’ll go with the more round but more angular variation. Should post it when I’m done 😁 

This is a study I made while I was on my flight to the US. It was the longest day ever mostly because I'm pretty sure my April 19, 2014 lasted for more than 24 hours. 

Lately I've been practicing drawing from life. Before, I was a little scared because i didn't like making mistakes, but I realized that it's okay to ale mistakes because later on I'll be able to correct them. And as I drew from life, it has been excellent practice.

I wanted to draw the guy beside me across the aisle (because he had a nice blazer on and very very nice brogues) but unfortunately he kept noticing me looking at him so I couldn't draw him... The other people I drew didn't notice (when you see the drawings I guess you can tell why).

My favorite drawing here is definitely the mom and her daughter (mother and child jk). It was very very cute and it was great seeing that.  The man in the middle left (no, not the one who is sleeping funnily) seemed to be quite nostalgic and a lot of people get sentimental or think while on modes of transportation for a long time. The man on the lower right, I'm guessing is purser of the plane, he seemed to be quite happy with how the people were doing when one of the meals were served.  

I rarely get to go on vacation or travel, but I love it. Seeing all sorts of different people, and thinking of the many things that they have gone through or the kind of people they are. People are interesting.

I’m more of a fan of Hilda and Claude’s friendship but I also really like the ship? 😂 I just wanted to quickly design my take on Almyran clothing and paint them in yellow 😬😬 (and Claude smiling with his eyes 😁)

Henrik before the war, before the war p2, during the war

Henrik’s ending (Verdant Wind)

After the war, Henrik worked toward abolishing discrimination, prejudice, and setting the foundation for the full reformation of many oudated systems in a United Fodlan. Years later, after Khalid ascended the throne in Almyra, Henrik became a Diplomat and they improved relations between the two countries. Henrik dedicated his life to building a free society where all are welcome. Although he never married, his published books of love poems made it clear to everyone that he loved greatly and truly.

The King.

Some vis dev of the King of the Kingdom for my current personal project, George.

Sunflower Fields

Finished this time lapse study in Photoshop 😁 

H, Motorcyclist — Project Revamp

Rough sketches for possible designs for H.

More Phantasy Star IV

The Queen and her Knight.

Drew this two years ago, got busy with thesis, then forgot it existed. whoops 😬 Better late than never I guess hahaha 😬😬

Developing a possible design. #regulus #character design