Captain Blackberry Sketches

I'm happy that my friend Dave Corrado gave me a steampunk eye scope to use as reference for this character.

Steve Sketches

I've been super busy with projects at school lately and trying to squeeze in some time to work on sketching Steve. I also just recently sent out my final design to get printed as a cardboard cutout. I should be receiving that in the mail in a week or two. 

Finished Steve Silverado Cardboard cutout design

This is my finished cardboard cutout design. It took me a while to do since I am not that great with Illustrator. It was a pretty complicated process. I'm not going to lie. I probably could have completed it in Photoshop in a quarter of the time it took me to draw everything with the pen tool in Illustrator but it wouldn't be in vector which would be the problem since I need to scale it so large. Next, I want to take the  time to work on a vector drawing of the title logo. Everything takes time.

Sam Bouka sketches

I was spending some of my time drawing more of Sam Bouka, the Otter Pirate. For me, each drawing is about developing a character's personality.

6 foot cardboard cutout of Steve

I spent a lot of time this past weekend trying to figure out the Affinity Designer Program on my Ipad so I can create a large vector image of a Drawing that I made of Steve. I came to the conclusion that while Designer is a great program merging both vector and raster together, its a little difficult to use on an ipad as are most vector programs. I ended up creating this one in Illustrator using the pen tool. I cant seem to figure out a way to easily add shading to my drawing in Illustrator that's why I kept it in flat colors. I tried using a clipping mask but it didnt work right. I guess the only way to do it is to just use the pen tool and redraw the entire shape of the shadows which takes forever.

Capt Blackberry Beard's Chainsaw Arm in action

I'm continuing to develop my character, Captain Blackberry Beard. Following through with his chainsaw arm, I created two versions of this illustration, one with blood and one without. It made me think about my audience for the story, which would be 13-15 yrs old. At that point I thought about the violence relating to the story. Maybe it's not a good idea for him to have a chainsaw arm or maybe I can just get rid of the blood. Or maybe there could be two versions of the story, one that is more dialogue heavy for teenagers and another that is more violent for an older audience.  At the same time, maybe I can focus more on the human attacking robot violence instead of the human attacking human violence for the story. These are just some current thoughts that I have about this project.

Final Color Blackberry Beard Robot Arm Designs

These are what the various drillbits inserted into Captain Blackberry Beard's arm would look like.