#chancellor

If Ron Clements is the inspiration for my Nome King, then it's logical to have John Musker be his Chief Steward. A fairly simple process since his caricature drawings of himself feature him with a long, pointed nose, a mustache, and glasses. That was the easy part. The hard part was designing the rest of the body and his outfit.

The book illustrations show Kaliko has being tall, lanky character with a rather butler-esque outfit. That would be simple enough if it weren't for the fact that the Nomes in general are described to be fairly round and short. So I gave Kaliko a pot-belly. As for his outfit, trying to draw a fancy jacket was a pain, so I made an outfit that was similar to the Nome King's and reduced the butler aesthetic to just his pants and a vest with a high collar and tailcoats. I also gave him a golden chain since that was described in the books too.

The colors, I gave him a red shirt since he is part of the Nome King's inner circle, but I didn't want him to overshadow his king. I gave the Steward more grayish and muted colors around the red. And speaking of gray, the Nomes are described have skin colors of rocks and look like they were chipped away from the mountains. Thus, all Nomes have gray-ish and muted hair colors to look like they've been carved from stone.

Yeah, the Nomes do center their lives around rock carving. You can see Kaliko holding a stone cutter tool just to write down the words of the Nome King on that tablet.