The Gang and The Initiate | Design Process (Head Shape)

With the head I tried to mimiick in some way Lex Luthor from  Superman: Dooms Day. I was hoping therefore to portray anger but also his poorly state. Meanwhile, I tried to remain with ideology of triangle in construction.My favourite on this piece was the bottom left, however with the bandana looks like his a cancwer patient.

After looking at the original design I looked at otherways to deign the head and see if I could get the same effect with a less stereotyped head shape as disney characters. I felt that the second one in from the right.

Any thoughts ?

The Gang and The Initiate | Design Process

 

I tried to load of different body shape to gather the way I would like to the gangster looking. I found my favourites being the bottom left and bottom right. I felt they showed about him being malnourished but still have a gangster tint to it. 

With the second edition of design I looked to imply some muscle but not an immense amount that make it a complete different posture from a skinny one. I felt that only the top right was the closet do the desired effects.

Any thoughts?

The Gang and The Initiate | Design Process

Fig 1 | The Body Shape

The body shape is vital to my idea behind the gang memeber.  I looked at current design of gangster alongside the triangle shapes of classic evil characters. Moreover I looked for a skinny body shapes to help me portray The Initiate as a malnourished hard up gangster from the bottom of  Los Feliz.

For the fashion style it was easy to go for the mordern day classic gangster look. However when approaching photos of the Crips during 1969 it appeared that it could mixed in with the classic Zoot suit of the 1920's plus the Fadora.

Gang's Bio And Initiate's Bio

The Gang 1

Week 1+ Research

Synopsis

Sorry for the lateness of this document guys. It been a real issue to scribd. The imges don't want to show. I'll send you a copy of my findings and research if you want just let me know.