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Juanjo Guarnido, that is. The fella that draws Blacksad. My assignment this week was to do characters in the style of established artists. And the others are still... in the works. |:
What was hardest for me was to keep my own style of drawing animal-people out of it - I tend to keep them at a fairly even animal/human blend, while the Blacksad characters are very humanized... except for their heads, which are a precarious mix of realistic structure with an almost cartoony range of emotion. Which was also hard to replicate and I still don't think I got it down. The idea of doing a deer in a Santa costume has been on my mind for a couple days - originally he was a legit reindeer, but I thought it'd fit the "OMG fake!" mall-Santa situation even better if he was just a regular whitetail.  |
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Yeah, very nice touch with that.
I really like the coloring style you did for this. I'm not sure what it is, but it captures that Christmas atmosphere well. I also like all the little details you added in the background. The stalls reflecting off the mirrors, and the signs in the background. Definitely pulled off the style well in my opinion.
Oh and the characters lack tails! With the exception of this white fox(think his name was Huk) in Arctic Nation who happened to have one. What's up with that?
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And yeah... I only remember Huk having a tail. Maybe it helped him read better as a fox? I dunno. The general lack of tails suits the comic's metaphor though, where the emphasis is less on the animal part than the underlying human traits (which just happens to be reflected by their species).
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I remember when my parents explained there was no Santa Clause...
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Well done! I gotta say, when I clicked on this from my messages, I had no idea you had drawn it!
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Looks like he's going to be slightly mentally scarred for a little while, realising that Santa's a phoney...
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But then again, I think my realization process was more gradual then most kids. I don't remember a single
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