Hook

Hook's summary as shown on In the novel Peter and Wendy, Hook is described as "cadaverous" and "blackavized" (dark-faced), with blue eyes and long dark curls which look like "black candles" at a distance. In most pantomime performances of Peter Pan, and in the film Hook, Hook's hair is simply a wig. He is also described as having a "handsome countenance" and an "elegance of [...] diction" – "even when he [is] swearing". The novel further states that "In dress he somewhat aped the attire associated with the name of Charles II", and accordingly he is usually presented wearing a large feathered hat, a greatcoat (often red), and knee breeches. Barrie also said of him in "Captain Hook at Eton" as, "In a word, the handsomest man I have ever seen, though, at the same time, perhaps slightly disgusting". While Hook is an evil and bloodthirsty man, Barrie makes it clear that these qualities make him a magnificent pirate and "not wholly unheroic". I took a lot of his reference from Charles II but I also looked into depictions of pirates from the time that the book was published. This is where I found what I should draw him wearing and like some of my other illustrations I selected a few pieces from different reference images. I chose not to draw the feather hat as I felt that it's too closely associated with the Disney adaptation. I think I managed to draw him to be handsome and tanned but I'm not sure that I managed to get his disgusting traits across. I think if I had more time I would spend a while working on the balance of handsome and disgusting. I do think that my coloured lines have been improving and that I've had to think more about poses than ever before.