Grinch

As the grinch is from an illustrated book there is quite literally no description of his physical appearance. However this also meant that no where in the book does it say that he's green, in fact that was a decision made for the film adaptation. As I've been avoiding film adaptations and wanting to do something to make it my own I chose not to colour him green. This allowed me to draw the grinch in a new but familiar way. As he lives up in the cliffs and is depicted as white in the original illustrations it wasn't that much of a leap to draw him blue/white, like a yeti or another furry snow creature. I wanted him to be recognisable but to still have my own additions, one of these was the stripes but i did have some trouble with getting them how I wanted and I'm still not happy with them but I proffered what I did get to the just one colour ones that I also tried out. I like the contrast between the red of the hat and bow and the overall blue that I decided to use for most of this drawing. I think it helps to show that christmas isn't something that comes naturally to the Grinch. This background is one of the least villainous which could be improved but I do think it works well for the cold of winter and I think that it's my best one yet as you can see the texture and it's not too dark so it doesn't overwhelm the image.