The Green Lake, part 1: Old Turgel

The following works are part of a long term project based on a story written by a friend of mine. The story has fantastic descriptions of the characters and environments, which inspired me a lot, so I even chose that story, The Green Lake, as an outline for my Bachelor-thesis.

I focused on developing two characters from the story, of which I'm introducing the first one here, the Old Turgel.

This is the short version of the way from the first inspirations to the idea that I felt I wanted to explore further. I chose to work bigger and in charcoal to better catch the feeling of that character.

After the character had been defined I started to work out poses and expressions.

At the moment I'm planning test animations with the characters from the story, so stay tuned for these!

As well as for sketches of the other character, Ormisel, and Background concepts, of course!