Here, our resident hulking behemoth of a villain, Alaric the Axe, has almost taken his final form. At this point I envisioned a huge axe tattoo on his chest, and that might have been cool, but it never made it to the final design. If I think of it in the future, Alaric may just get that tattoo. That massive leather codpiece is certainly an attention grabber, is it not? This particular illustration was one of my early explorations into watercolor, a medium I quickly fell in love with.
These are my initial character designs for Alaric the Axe, a villain seen so often in Johnny Saturn. Really, this design was not far off the mark from how I initially drew Alaric. Looking at this now, I wonder if some of his appearance was subconsciously influenced by Thulsa Doom’s barbarian henchmen in the movie “Conan the Barbarian.” Alaric’s old costume looks a little too “90’s” to me now, and I’m glad I gave him a new costume in his later, one-armed incarnation.
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