#lucardo

One of the things I really love about going through Otava Heikkila’s older sketches on tumblr/twitter during the time where he was creating Letters for Lucardo vs now is looking at the evolution of Lucardo himself.   The truth is that in his early sketches Lucardo was.... kinda blah.  His character design wasn’t that great and his face just didn’t emote quite right.  He looked wild and a bit animalistic, like he would be more at home in a Beauty and the Beast story than what Letters for Lucardo became.

But you see the evolution when you look over time, and as Lucardo becomes, well, blacker (bigger nose, different facial hair, bigger thicker hair), that is when you see the character really come alive.  Its not just that he got thick segments of obviously black hair, its that his face suddenly starts to really emote.  He’s able to show not just suave sexiness, but a real vulnerability that grabs the reader and just sucks you right in.  He goes from a cookie cutter image of a slightly beastly monster to a regal man with deep complicated feelings that reach out through the page/screen and grab you.  

Locked up at Lucardo Manchester @LucardoER (Escape Room fun!)

“Are you ready to be locked up?” is a line you’d expect to hear from the latest 50 Shades of Grey film, not at 11:30am on a Saturday morning in the middle of Manchester.  This wasn’t the Red Room we’d accidentally wandered into and Adam and co weren’t about to play Christian Grey, this was Lucardo Manchester, the latest in escape room fun.

Being a fan of the Crystal Mazeand thinking myself of…