Man oh man! Week 2 snuck up on me! I have not gotten very far on this at all, but the important part is that I do have progress to show and I’m not skipping days like some people **coughandrewcough**, ahem, excuse me, allergy season.
I started by trying to figure out what the Mexican Sheriff was going to look like…I’m not overly thrilled with any of the drawings I have done (seen below are the laughable “best” two thus far). I need to try and get back into this soon before I fall behind. I should just draw Danny Trejo instead and call it a day :)

Yeah so I was lazy and missed week one.  That’s why you see thumbnails over there on the left in week 2. 

I felt it was time to introduce a villain.  With our word this month being South I thought an officer from the Confederate Army was fitting.  But the thumbnails just weren’t flowing well.  They all felt static.  I was having trouble finding something to get excited about.  So, I decided to get a fresh start in Photoshop and begin again the way I would if it was something that had to be done in a hurry.  Black and white, pushing shapes around until something starts to feel right.  The image below on the left is the first thing to have that “right” feeling so I started to refine from there.  I liked how the brim of his hat hid his face, making him more mysterious but with the front of his uniform so obscured by his right arm I felt it would be smarter to switch to a more recognizably civil war era hat.

Well here it is folks, my first post for South, 4 of Hearts.  I have chosen to do up a sculpture of the “head” of the deep deep south; the old devil.  So this week I have been gathering up some images for reference.  I haven’t quite settled in on a concept as of yet, but I will start ta kneedin and see where it takes me.  I have some ideas and I am sure they will not be the same in the end as they are right now.  I think maybe two girls sitting back to back; maybe both devils… maybe just one girl… maybe a guy, it’s all up in the air right now.  Stay tuned for more vague information coming your way next week.