Hugh Crane Continued

Here are some more sketches of Hugh Crane. The above sketch was done after the earlier one with the 'owl-like' turn of his head. The main thing was that the beard had a nice division of shapes in it and I wanted to do a larger sketch to embellish on that or at least to go over it, in repetition, to give me time to work with the idea.

I then took all the sketches I had done and extracted bits and pieces I liked. Below was the sketch that summarized all those best elements. This sketch below, I can safely say, is one on the road to a possible final design for him. Emotionally, I really like it! Next step is to do some fashion studies to give him a really nice costume. I don't want to immediately go for the usual stereotypes in dated period pieces but I honestly think something from a 'baroque-ish' time period is indeed just what he needs; something that is obviously not from current trend but not flashy and overly 'stage costume'. As of now, I'm picturing wine colors and dusty maroons.