Broadsword.
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| Bigfoot design |
We waited a little for the ultimate reveal on the design for the big guy (not including the page 2 preview) because we wanted to give you a brief snippet of the alien world. We've already seen the bad guys, alien races and a possible ally, so we figured it was time.
So... this is the hero of our little barbarian, sci-fi comic book.
But he didn't always look this way.
When Andy first came on board, we talked a little about what we thought our sasquatch should look like. There's no denying that Bigfoot has a certain look about him, but we didn't want to go too "Harry and the Hendersons" or "Jack Links" and we certainly didn't want him to look similar to the representations of Riley Rossmo's interpretation in "Proof" (an excellent book, by the way) or what Richard Corben had done in Rob Zombie's "Bigfoot".
So the first thing Andy did was give a few sketches of Bigfoot's noggin.
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| Bigfoot noggin |
Running the gamut of "ape-man" heads, we have a few great ape interpretations, chimp-ish looks, standard Bigfoot and even some more creative interpretations (check out the final "sloth bigfoot!") We finally settled on a hybrid with a few twists (mutton-chops, not as predominant of a forehead and a strong jaw.)
We then started looking at what could quite possibly be Bigfoot's trademark... His feet.
Taking a page from your standard superhero design, the first interpretation gave us a broad-chested barbarian... with what looked like a size 10 shoe.
Not a bad looking foot and it certainly kept with the "small feet = more super-heroic pose" look that all the big heroes have (Superman probably has a good size 10, Batman... 8.) But we quickly realized, we just couldn't go with the standard. We had to go with a size 22.
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| Boom |
And that, my friends, was that. We had our hero.
After that, we only needed one final addition.
Until next time...
Josh S. Henaman
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