The Bad Guys Fanart - Tumblr Posts
Watched the Bad Guys recently and I can't stop thinking how good this movie is!! Anyway, here's a dose of Fanart of the BEST characters in the WHOLE movie!!
I think I'm gonna do all 5 of the Bad Guys as humans, it just feels right.
This one took way longer than expected, originally I wanted to give him a tan reflecting the darker color sharks have on their top side, but I learned the hard way that I suck at painting tans. Then I tried giving him just a ton of arm and back hair for the same effect, and it sucked again. So I decided to screw it and leave it as is. I'm still pretty happy with how this one turned out, I took a while to figure out the proportions but I think he looks good.
The shark version also had a shark tooth in his necklace so I decided that he should hang a human incisor from his necklace. Gives him a bit more of an intimidation factor with that friendly face he's got going.
3/5 Mr Piranha
I wanted him to look buff since he's such a fighter so my seach history now has an oddly high amount of dwarf bodybuilders and Peter Dinklage pics. Regardless I'm happy with the result, the Bad Guys are such a varied cast and I wanted to make sure my humanizations reflect that diversity in body types, facial features and color palettes. I'm not super happy with the background shape tho, they kinda look like a bug mandible to me but whatever, a more piranha-like shape looked too weak and a more cleaver-like shape looked too refined so I added the fin things to the sides to complement.
This is 4/5, Human Mr. Snake from The Bad Guys movie and let me ask you:
WHY WAS THIS GENERIC ASS MOTHER F*CKER SO DIFFICULT TO DRAW?!
Originally I wanted him to look kinda like Eddie Valiant from Who Framed Roger Rabbit but lankier, more skinny. And he did end up kinda like I wanted but I don't know. Also his color kinda fucked me up, I wanted him to be about as yellow as humanly possible but after an actual week of researching I came to learn that there is no properly yellow melanin, it's apparently only brown, black or red so for him to look yellow he had to have a skin condition that I didn't want to go into which ended up throwing his whole color scheme off, not to mention the pose, IT'S APPARENTLY REALLY DIFFICULT TO POSE A SNAKE, and humanizing a snake in a way consistent with it is apparently very hard too. And the background, a solid snake shaped background with some extra personal detail should be very simple right? RIGHT? It was not, oh boy it was not.
Well, at least I finished him. Maybe in a few years once I'm a better artist I'll re-do him, but for now this will have to do. All in all it's probably not the worst thing I've posted, definitely not the worst character design I've made. Just. . . A little dissapointing, I thought I'd do a better job with this one. This did make me appreciate the animators of the movie a lot more though, if making a humanized snake is this hard actually having a snake character and making them do stuff in a way that looks interesting is probably even harder.
5/5 Mr. Wolf. And that's the whole gang.
Mr. Wolf was interesting because I really wanted to give him a proper "silver fox" vibe, like the older gentleman that's still charming, attractive and intelligent. Not to mention I forgot to give Mr. Snake the age that I wanted to give him so I was left wanting to draw an older character. But Mr. Wolf is canonically only 31, so I decided to mix two tropes; The pretty boy but who's getting into his thirties and seamlessly transitioning into a silver fox, a man that combines some of the more modern traits of contemporary sex appeal and an older, more experienced gentleman. I am eager to revisit this design in the future once I'm a better artist but until then I am satisfied with this result. His legs are kinda lanky but that's the original character as well.
Mr. Wolf and Little red riding hood.