I've recovered from a month in Mexico, i'm back on contract at work, and it's time to get sketching again!
This is a quick rough of the character 'Lord Farquaad' in Shrek: the Musical, taken from this press photo. It's roughed out first in pen, then markered in basic color.
I hate the hands, but that's what i get in a rough--hands are my least favorite part of the human body to draw. Also, his face totally looks like Michael Jackson to me. But i guess that kind of works for Farquaad.
Without going into too much detail as yet, I've got a project on the horizon in which i need an actor to play a character on his (super-padded) knees, like Farquaad is played.
I thought it would be a good initial exercise to draw Farquaad from a press pic, but attempt to show in the rendering a hint of where the legs/knees hit inside the costume. Farquaad has a puppetty prosthetic short-leg-rig, and the actor's legs are hidden by black pants and a full cape with a "cape petticoat" to keep it hiding the shins/feet.
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