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Title: Character designs for Big Gay Fantasy Epic
Medium: Pen & vellum, pencil & paper
Date: 1998 - 1999
Notes: These are some character designs I did for a big gay fantasy epic I was working on a few years ago. I like fantasy in theory (though the endless variations on Tolkien that have been the staple of modern fantasy are less interesting to me now that I'm old and jaded) and have long wanted to write an epic fantasy tale, but with more queerness and less heterocentrism than your standard fantasy epic. This particular story will never see the light of day as it is unbelievably awful, though I am occasionally tempted to sort through my old notes to see if there are any usable nuggets amongst the reams of complete drivel. That guy up there is a character I created when I was 15, and a lot of his personality wound up in Archer of Politically InQueerect fame.
This fellow is meant to be the half-brother of the guy at the top of the page. He kinda sorta looks like Todd with long hair, but that's not on purpose. It's more a byproduct of the fact that they're both variations on my Standard Doodle Guy. He keeps threatening to crop up in PIQue, and I keep ducking the issue as he is a total force of chaos and may well lay waste to the PIQue world. Very bisexual, very charismatic. See? Dangerous!
And this guy may well be the gayest gay in all of Gayville. Looks more like a character from some trendy gay club than a supporting character in an epic fantasy, but this drawing may be from the story's steampunk incarnation. I don't think I could draw him forever and not get bored: too pretty, too obvious. Bits of him also wound up in Archer, though, specifically the hair & eye color and the accent.
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