Project - The Secret Thoughts of...

This brief has asked us to illustrate what we cant see - thoughts. My secret thoughts had to be those of a puppeteer. I did lots and lots of research into puppeteering, and much of its history is very deep and psychological, so I decided to go down that route. After a few very rough sketches of ideas, I pinned it down to a choice of two.
We had a group crit' and both my lecturers and the group chose this one as the strongest. My aim was to try illustrate the split personality and sometimes confusion of a puppeteer, his thoughts wanting to cut the strings...

 

The sketch above is the one that my group chose, after further input and advice from my lecturers like making the character more fluid and floppy, and to add more interest such as the Victorian suit with tails and Victorian curve blade ornamental scissors, I redrew and messed about with it using layout paper and trusty lightbox. The final image ended up like this...

 

"The Secret Thoughts of a Puppeteer"

 

Close up of the head...

 

And the bottom half.