Monkey Island Week 2022 Day 1
I don’t draw (“we’re artists”? ah, if only), so I hardly feel it’s worth me making a top post about this rather than just reblogging, but...
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Day One: Return To A New Look
Holy Dairy Farmer, we got a new Monkey Island coming out this year! This is absolutely positively wild! And because this is, after all, a new Monkey Island game, that means our boy Guybrush got a whole new look.
And he looks absolutely wonderful!
But lets be real: we’re artists. We have our things we would like added or remove, or maybe nothing at all and because we love it as is! So what would you do? Would you change his look or not? If you would, what will you add or remove? His pony tail? No tail? Mohawk? Have at it!
How dare you suggest removing his ponytail ;)
I’m not sure whether this means “is there something you would have wanted to see / would change” about Guybrush’s design in general, or specifically the RMI design. If the latter, I don’t want to harp on the art style and invite drama (I do like the art in general and Wally particularly was a real IT HE!!!! moment), though I would have preferred more natural proportions (head to lower limb ratio is especially odd).
But as far as specific design elements, I miss his blue eyes! And yes I know 1. no one has colored eyes in this style (unless you count LeChuck’s glowing red) and 2. he doesn’t have visibly blue eyes in like half of the games anyway, but somehow they’re such an important feature in the image I carry around in my head.
Slightly silly answer, I’ve long wanted to see Guybrush in a pirate hat. Not necessarily as a permanent feature of his costume, just a scene or something. And while I can understand the internal chronological reason for having him in basically his Revenge outfit, although they seem to have added a little capelet or trim of some kind to the back--
--I was kinda hoping for new clothes, just to see what they came up with. Maybe there will be time-jumping shenanigans as so many have speculated and we’ll get to see a little variety here or there.
I might also have gone with hair a little less brightly blond, tried to split the difference between the light brown color in (original) MI1/2 and the trend to really yellow blond that happened later, sort of like they did in the MI2 SE. This is partly also a “the Guybrush in my head is more dark/honey blond, a color that sometimes looks light brown and sometimes looks golden” thing but also the idea of sort of unifying or recombining various iterations of the design so there isn’t this... era divide? I guess? or something... But I can see why they wanted to make him pop out of the screen as a general color design choice -- see for example how his hair shows up against the dark teal of the side of the ship he’s standing in front of.
(As for a mohawk, I always find it fun to dress up favorite characters in all sorts of specifially themed outfits and modern-punk Guybrush is actually one I’d thought of. He didn’t have a mohawk, but probably quite an undercut under the ponytail, and he had a blue leather jacket with skull & crossbones done in pyramid studs ;) )
