Creating the character of Knut- part 1

So, after building the ship with Nick, I used some of the photos as reference for character sketches.

Nick-sketches-1 — sketches of Nick, and character ideas

ship building sketches 1 — ship building sketches, featuring a very early 'Wolverine' (Knut's dog).

ship building sketch 2 — Nick performing cardboard dragon dentistry

These sketches look very similar to the final roughs for the book- I’ll show their development in a future post.

From this point I started developing a very early version of Knut, which looks nothing like the final version… I call it the ‘big-nose’ version. Here’s a peek:

big nose detail — One of the first Knut sketches, dated 6/10/09

More next week!

Author: James Foley

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