#b. jacks

I never show how much I sketch B Jacks because 90% of the time I fel like Im drawing him wrong but this sketch actually felt like good proportions for him for once. Im cautiously hopeful that maybe I’ve got it and can make something finished and colored?

Blue Jackal is probably one of the most difficult characters to design for me. I’ve never finished a design for them that I liked. They’ve stayed the same over the years in terms of personality but I just never could find a design that captured the things I wanted to emphasize.

One, if not the biggest, element thats been a source of grief for me is B. Jacks head. B. Jacks was always meant to have a cartoonishly creepy large head. On top of that it was supposed to be able to stretch and squash to extreme measures. However his abnormally large head basically throws me for a loop with the rest of his perspective. A lot of times making his head large makes him look like a cute chibi character when hes meant to be large and slightly intimidating however shrinking his head makes him more of a generic anthropomorphic character.  When I think of what I want it supposed to be a mash of Ripperoo from Crash Bandicoot, Papa Doll from Catnapped, combined with various characters from Ghibli films like Moro, No Face, and the Nightwalker.