Thursday, February 23, 2017

Nottingham Wolves



A while ago I posted a few sheets with rough drawings by John Lounsbery showing his early design approach for the henchmen wolves from Robin Hood. 
As always Milt Kahl came up with the final refined designs, shown here. I think they look terrific. The way their hoods often obscure the eyes makes them look dangerous, but a little dumb at the same time.
When you break up the proportions from the hood, then the torso to the skirt part, they are all different lengths. Milt knew instinctively that even proportions result in boring, uninteresting designs.
This philosophy is evident in any of his character designs.
Great drawings!







Here is the link to Lounsbery's earlier versions of the wolves:

http://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2016/07/lounsbery-wolves.html


1 comment:

  1. Theses drawings are stunning! Thanks for sharing them, Andreas.

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