Fox Meets the Bear sketches

Here are some character sketches I did for Chris Dabnor's story, "The Fox Meets the Bear," in the upcoming issue of Astonishing Adventures Magazine. I always find that drawing head shots of the main characters really helps the process along. These won't be appearing in the magazine; I'm only doing it for my own reference.

It's a WW2 spy pulp, about two Soviet spies and their English ally. Sickle is based on Milla Jovovich (so great in The Fifth Element), and her partner Hammer might possibly resemble the Heavy from Team Fortress 2. As for the English spy, the Fox, he looks like Ryan Cartwright, aka John "Moneypenny" Hooker from Mad Men, and Vincent Nigel-Murray from Bones. (He's not the typical choice for a gentleman spy-- he seems to be cast a lot as twerpy nerdy types-- but he does look dashing in a fedora.)

It's so much fun playing casting director-- I'm really excited now to do the illustrations, which I'll do next week. Upwards and onwards!