I'd been wanting to draw Charlton Heston since I'd heard that he'd passed away. As a kid, we didn't have big budget CG extravaganza superhero movies coming out every week so Charlton Heston was as close to a superhero as we had. On any given weekend, you could catch a re-run of Planet of the Apes or The Omega Man on TV and of course, every Easter we got to watch The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur. I certainly didn't agree with the man's politics, but he could play bigger than life heroes like few others.
I just had time to do some rough pencils today, so I thought I'd post each step of the process. I'm thinking this is going to be pen & ink with some ink wash laid in when it's done. We'll see:
Edited to add the reference photo I'm using (a still from Ben Hur):
Edited to add the reference photo I'm using (a still from Ben Hur):
1 comment:
Hey, that's cool. I think you're right Chuck Heston has a good everyman quality about him. Not as caricature as Kirk Douglas, but still a manly man.
Nice arm.
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