Baron Samedi expression, pose sheet and turnaround...

Having spotted several gaps in my work I decided to turn my attention back to Baron Samedi, creating facial expressions, poses and a turnaround sheet.

The sheet below was quite challenging as he is wearing round sunglasses. It's not until you try to express a character's emotions through their facial expressions that you realise how important the eyes are in this process. I think the fact I gave him a large and quite expressive mouth helped make up for this.

Below are two of several poses I wanted to play around with. Here the Baron is taking a good glug of rum and then sucking on a Cuban cigar, two past times he's notorious for.



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