Text Character Worklog *COMPLETE*

 "History is, it's just a nightmare. Cut-off tongues laying everywhere"


Now, working on the character of the scene - one that has been beaten and defeated by history.

First of all, I wanted to play with the idea that a character has ulterior motive. How somebody high up in the food-chain can lie and kill to secure their seat up there. This, again, is playing on the idea of the old History books and how they are written by the victor of whatever bloodshed happened beforehand.


I was going to play with the Uncle Sam stereo-type, but I thought it would be a better idea to just experiment with nameless figures, and how I could make then have an air of distrust about them.

Stepping away from the first characters, I began to work on the second character - the one who has been defeated and broken by history. The one who did not write in the History books. After working on several ideas I decided to depict a skinny male, a completely vulnerable creature that's lost all hope because of things that have happened in the past - things that were not rightly his fault. To get this point across I began to look for newspaper headlines that could be used to paint a picture of betrayal and bloodshed.

Still working on the idea of a defeated man, I decided to run with the notion that he has been starved of his victory and literately. This is the story of the man who lost the good fight and who will be lost in history.

 For the final I began with newspaper headlines that depict a tragic event and cut them out to make them look like a collection of linked events - almost like a detective's findings.

 To give the impression that the headlines are aged, I layered them under a blank parchment. Turning the capacity down on the drawing of the character also helped him blend in to the scene, becoming part of the news stories. With the headlines towering over, almost crushing the man - he is helpless

The King will send his army.