Family Planning

Every good family story needs to have some sort of annoying older brother, and Blake Laser has the perfect annoying older brother. Here are my rough exploratory sketches for him. Since I have already figured out my main character, all other character designs need to fit into her universe and have the same relative head to body proportions. So, when I designed this, I didn't have a size chart next to me, and I had to tweak the chosen drawing to fit along with my main character. The starred version is the one we chose, and the enlarged version is my attempt to resize him to fit proportionally with our main character.

Even though I still tweaked him, once I see them side by side, I notice that his head mass is much smaller than his little sisters. Now that it's in Photoshop, I can tweak this up a bit and redraw it until I get him to look like the original sketch but also look like he lives in the same universe as our girl.

Here I'm really liking the shapes I've got and I think he fits in nicely with his lil sis. I used oval construction lines to build his afro so I can redraw it easier next time on the panels.

And here we have our final big brother! Approved by the author and happily accepted by the illustrator. Next up are Mom & Pops. Til next time.