With the sketches, I wanted to really portray Walt's double life and the precarious balance between his role as a crystal meth "manufacturer" and a father and husband. So I chose the smoke to the kind of envelope parts of his life, maybe taking them away from him.
I went with the bottom sketch, but decided to make his expression reflect his exasperation about this choice he's made. I also needed to liven up the emptier spaces, so I threw some of the beakers he uses to cook with in the foreground and some small birds, most likely vultures, in the upper left corner. 
I wanted a nice, sort of creepy color palette that would be reminiscent of the style of the show, heavy on greens and yellows.
I kept the darkest line on wall to draw all of the focus to Walt and his kind of amazing face, wrinkled and cracked, but still really expressive. I moved the birds around a bit from the final drawing and added another.
I'm very pleased with how it turned out. And if you've never watched Breaking Bad, I highly recommend it.--CKL--
This is awesome. If you didn't put that bit of flesh tone on Walt's nose he would look like a zombie but the greenness works because of the whole cancer plaguing him.
ReplyDeleteThanks much! Walt still needed to have a human element since he hasn't completely transformed into Heisenberg and goes back and forth on his decision to cook so often.
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