Moving on With Sketches

Drawing menswear.

Not one of the best pictures, and it's before coloring, but here are some rough sketches for a couple of the men characters in Servant of Two Masters. I met with the Director of the show last week to go over all of the ideas I had and to make sure I'm on the right track. This is my first show with Parkland College and I don't want to disappoint- it's also the first show of the season so I want to help make it an amazing start!

There are a few characters that could be cast with male or female characters, so those are mainly just ideas and could work for either gender. I would really enjoy a little gender bending for this show, I think it could work out well. As I've written before, my sketching process is a little funky. I like to do quick sketches, write out all of my ideas, and go from there. I then pick my favorites, add color, and then focus on fabrics and patterns. As of now I have 2 characters I need to tweek their looks just a little bit. Think greaser to Teddy Boy for one, and the other is just a little less formal. Not too bad for a first round with meeting with the Director. 

I plan on going to auditions at the end of the month so when the cast is chosen I already have faces to put with the characters. The auditions are on a Saturday, call backs Sunday, and then rehearsals start that Monday, so it's a very fast paced schedule. My plan is to pull costumes the first week and try to do pull as many pieces for the looks as possible. I found out I won't have a lot of help from the costume shop since it's their first show of the season and there is only 1 costume student. If I can do fittings week 2 then if I need to make anything I have about a week and a half to do so before costume parade. Luckily I have a few days off of work during all of this so I should be okay schedule wise. I plan on posting more once my sketches are done and the show is cast. I'll write a little more on my process as I go along and have a few pictures to post too.