Jaco’s Random Writings

It would appear that in my eagerness to push through to the “Final Sketch” phase, I had neglected to do some error-checking in the anatomy of “Cerberus”, most notably in Cerberus himself (themselves… does having 3 heads make it plural?). So let’s take a look at the “Final Sketch” of “Cerberus”.

The final sketch of Cerberus

See if you can spot 10 things wrong with this picture. Ah! Too late, I’ve done it already. Now I’ll whip out my handy-dandy red pen and…. there.

Final Sketch of Cerberus with some serious red pen action going on.

Pretty much all the major mistakes happened with Cerberus. So here they are, 1 – 10:

1. The middle head’s ears are way too low for a wolf head seen from that angle. The base of the ears should be just a little above the top of the eyes.
2. The mouth is all wrong. ALL WRONG. The teeth are sort of accurate, but shape of the mouth is completely off.
3. The general shape of the head is off too. The way it is shaped now looks more like a bear than a wolf. Shape of the mouth isn’t helping this. Head should be shaped more like an upside-down pentagon.
4. The angle the teeth are seen at is somewhat off on the left-most head. Needs to be a bit more top-down.
5. Eyes are too big on right-most head. Those need to shrink. Also, their shape needs to be adjusted.
6. Snout is way too short. Also, the angle is also way off. This makes the right-most head appear more like a large cat than a wolf.
7. Surprisingly, the bottom jaws of wolves don’t really have that much fur on them. It’s much shorter and limited to the bottom of the jaw.
8. The slope of the head is also off. Too sharp of a drop. Wolves have big heads. They really do. This, combined with the angle of the snout, is what makes this look more like a large cat than a wolf.
9. I don’t even know what the Hell is wrong here, but it’s wrong! I guess it needs to curve further upwards. Makes it look like this head had a bad run-in with a sledgehammer.
10. The mad priest’s hands are too small. Need to be about 1/4 bigger.

So there you have it. Proof that haste makes waste. Instead of having Cerberus, I have a three-headed chimera with the head of a wolf’s, a bear’s, and a cougar’s. Now I have to go back into the “Red Sketch” phase and make the needed adjustments.

I’ll post the “Final Sketch” with all the corrections made… as soon as they are made.