Headless Horseman part 1
This is the Headless Horseman character for my Halloweenies compilation I am doing; he is the final character that will be affiliated with them. The idea behind him was that since zombies, skeletons, vampires, goblins, and witches are such typical and overly used Halloween figures a headless horseman character would not only be somewhat different but also look cool in collaboration with the rest of the characters. You can see from the sketches that I wanted him to not steer too far from the familiar idea of a headless horseman-being without a head, a sword, traditional garb, and sometimes a flaming pumpkin / jack o' lantern. These sketches were done on 5.5X8.5 sketch paper in graphite. Final piece coming tomorrow. Vaya con Dios.
Very nice. I see for one of your sketches The Horsemen has a curved blade. Seeing a European Pirate or Arabian version would be interesting.
ReplyDeleteThat actually was the basis for that particular design style, but I decided to stick with the more ''traditional'' style as with the other Halloweenies characters.
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