I needed a piece of paper bigger than my ~A5 sketchbook and more disposable too. My wife is, in my mind, constantly buying note pads to vanish so I asked her for paper she would never use and this Columnar paper is what she came up with. Perfect.
I started just trying to work out some face drawing but quickly started thinking about goblins. What are the proportions of a goblin? I wanted a barrel chested goblin. On the lower left you can see my thumbnail. 5 heads tall. 8 heads wide but with a head two heads wide.
Chonky goblin. Too chonky for me to visualize. Can’t visualize a hominid? You’ve just found a reason to draw a new vitruvian man. Well, I have. You do you.
I kinda want to get a bigger piece of paper and go fully detailed but that’s not in the budget.
The key thing I had in mind was that I wanted a broad nose. I wanted a nose so broad that it would shape the face. Maybe one that didn’t even have a protruding nose but more like the one Iron Maiden’s Eddie has but wider. I wasn’t happy with the result and I might revise it in future versions.
I have a final drawing in my head of a single scene that tells a story but it’s going to take multiple studies of the various parts before I can draw the whole thing. Getting the goblin anatomy right is just part of the whole thing. Up next a wagon.