Phew! Ever since I first drew Cass she pissed me off. Everything I’ve drawn so far has been very straight forward, but then I decided it would be a good idea to create a main character who has to look like normal child on first glance and becomes weirder the more you look at her.
She’s the focus of a story which has slowly grown out of the ‘Dreamscapedia’ project. The idea with her is that you naturally assume she is the dreamer but as events unfold it becomes clear that she is merely a dream character created by a man who is on the verge of waking from a 7 year coma. She’s basically the memory of his 6 year old daughter Cassie combined with the knowledge that she would be 13 years old at the time of the dream, information which has possibly been unconsciously filtered from conversations around his hospital bed.
And that’s why her design has been the trickiest of all, it was important that she didn’t just look like a 9 year old, she needed to be a direct mix of child and gangly teenager without looking so weird you’d think I just can’t draw kids. Hopefully I’ve got the balance right though now, It’s the first time her design has satisfied me so that’s something at least!
Please note her footware by the way, It’s my favourite bit. And the best thing is that because she lives inside peoples dreams she can walk walk, run and jump without breaking her feet!
Old icky design! Bleh! (2009)
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sam said,
August 23, 2010 @ 9:49 pm
this is v. good my lovely, though i still liked the old design this is better by ten fold, more energy you automatically think something is amiss because of her strange posture, almost puppet like – was that intended? then you decide to look more carefully, then you start seeing more things that seem out of sync. v v good xxx