This project began with a serious brainstorm the ended with me settling on the theme of "Wizards". This seemed like a theme a could easily work with, and perhaps not have to delve too deeply into the research department to my already fairly good visual familiarity with the subject.
I began just drawing from ideas that came to me, these first sketches were mostly cartoony almost resembling cheesy chip art one would find in MS: Word.
After about 10 images the classic "bearded man in the pointy hat" began to get a bit dry and I tried to branch out a bit. I began to think about different kinds of "wizards" wheather of not these wizards would be good or evil and maybe how they could dress differently then the pointy hat while still looking mystical.
At this point I began to do some more visual research online looking work by the lead artists for blizzard as well as numerous other images I just found searching google. However, the at this point I would also say my theme took a bit of a shift in that i decided to go from drawing just wizards to "people I know in real life who are most likely wizards". This gave me all sorts of new ideas for people to draw, including celebrities, teachers and the old men I see at work. Finally I ended by decided to mix it up a bit more and add some females to eh groups as well and drew a few sorceresses.
Once I had 30 images I went back to clean some of them up and by adding color and in a few cases going a bit overboard with the detail but overall getting some great images in the end. The finished products are categorized below.
The Line Wizards:
The Wizards of Color:
The Sorceresses of the Overly Indulgent Attention Span:
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