STEEM-CARTOON - CARLITO THE PROUD THUG

STEEM-CARTOON - CARLITO THE PROUD THUG

Please don't be offended by him, he was refering to both of himselves (in the first picture above). He.. he is Carlito. He is loco like that.

This character drawing is basically a cartoon rendition of a fictional live-action character called 'Carlito' in 'Proud Thug' from the Comedy Central sketch series Key & Peele. He was played by this guy right here:

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Ouch! Yes, it's Jordan Peele. Carlito is one of my top favorite performance from him (besides Decker of course. Coundn't beat Decker. Decker was the best!). I've always been amazed at how he was able to completely transformed himself into every character he ever played in the show. Such a phenomenal actor! You can watch him playing Carlito here:

Capturing Carlito in a cartoon form was such a fun challenge for me. This is how i did it:

I started with a simple and rough preliminary sketch. I tried injecting as much of what i thought would present him best in the simplest strokes of lines as possible. That included not only his look and appearance but also his attitude and temperament. The decision-making on the simplification and amplification on the physical aspects of his characteristic really played a big part to get the right cartoon looks for him. I don't really know how to explain this but there's math involved behind this. You know, like the over-exaggerated facial features, the body ratio and stuff.

He looked too stiff standing too straight like that so I added a bit of a sway to his posture to give some kind of dynamic attitude flow into him.

Ok, I know.. I'm trying too hard to sound really smart here. I don't even know if I made any sense at all.

But, anyway... when you got the look that you were looking for, it will be a lot more simpler from here.

The detailing, cleaning-ups and coloring were more of a technical process.

A little color grading maybe..?

And there you have it. Done.

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Thank you for dropping by!

- oRen! -