Character Art
When I come up with a character, the starting point of the creative process tends to vary quite a lot. Sometimes, I get inspired by a person I come across while wondering around. On other occasions, it flows from an entirely different idea; peculiar lighting, a street corner. Characters then become the means by which I externalize that gut feeling that tells me I’m on to something.
Regardless of the starting point, the course generally brings me to a very specific detail. Something from the spark of inspiration that I haven’t identified yet, but my intuition captured. As such, drawing the character becomes a quest to identifying – and visualizing – the element that I wanted to explore. The harder the search, the more satisfying the catch.
Zooming out to the numerous characters that I have drawn over the years, my mind can’t help but look for commonalities between them. I start imagining various interrelations between them, however far-fetched they might be.As if the characters I drew – and will draw – come from the same imaginary world that I explore illustration per illustration.
