Hunter has changed a great deal from his first design:
He's way to punky. Not really
modern punk, more of a mid-eighties British working class stiff kinda punk.
In any event, it's totally wrong for the character for many reasons.
To fully understand these reasons you've got to know the origins of
Hunter and Angela. They were originally going to be their own story,
about a kid about to graduate from high school who falls for a girl that's
about to go utterly werewolf when her stepfather abuses her, unlocking the
heredity lycanthropy that's been lurking in her DNA. There was a Saul-like
vampire character in that story, but it never came to fruition. A lot
of the elements of that story with the 'world of monsters and magic in hiding'
feel to it has been worked into Hard Underbelly. Some other characters
and settings from this story are going to work their way into Hard Underbelly
in the future. In any event, this look was all wrong.
A slightly more recent design just before starting Hard Underbelly:
Still way too punky. Hunter was always intended to be a fairly yuppie
kind of kid who starts practicing magic in his attempts to find a cure for
the woman he loves. All this other stuff was just random design nonsense
that had nothing to do with him. I didn't do any drawing of the final
Hunter before his appearance in-comic, it just sort of came out on the day
that I had to draw him.
This is a recently found final design that I'd forgotten existed:
It's all there, except I made his chin pointier, as he still looks to muscular
in this image.
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He's way to punky. Not really
modern punk, more of a mid-eighties British working class stiff kinda punk.
In any event, it's totally wrong for the character for many reasons.
To fully understand these reasons you've got to know the origins of
Hunter and Angela. They were originally going to be their own story,
about a kid about to graduate from high school who falls for a girl that's
about to go utterly werewolf when her stepfather abuses her, unlocking the
heredity lycanthropy that's been lurking in her DNA. There was a Saul-like
vampire character in that story, but it never came to fruition. A lot
of the elements of that story with the 'world of monsters and magic in hiding'
feel to it has been worked into Hard Underbelly. Some other characters
and settings from this story are going to work their way into Hard Underbelly
in the future. In any event, this look was all wrong.A slightly more recent design just before starting Hard Underbelly:
Still way too punky. Hunter was always intended to be a fairly yuppie
kind of kid who starts practicing magic in his attempts to find a cure for
the woman he loves. All this other stuff was just random design nonsense
that had nothing to do with him. I didn't do any drawing of the final
Hunter before his appearance in-comic, it just sort of came out on the day
that I had to draw him. This is a recently found final design that I'd forgotten existed:
It's all there, except I made his chin pointier, as he still looks to muscular
in this image. Back to Characters
Back to Hard Underbelly