Quintesson Masks 2

Pencil on paper, coloured in Photoshop. The idea behind this piece was to take the Quintesson Deathmask and emphasise the two influences that most inform its design; the Egyptian style, and the judge's wig on a skull. It should be pretty obvious which is which.

The Judge mask was surprisingly easy to design - it came out clearly on the first attempted. The eyes aren't quite right, really, but they work ok. The Egyptian mask was much, much harder, and required adding various extra bits to make it work. The face doesn't work quite as well as the Judge mask, either - to make it look quasi-Egyptian requires certain curves that are convex in the original design to become concave, changing the form rather a lot.

Background looks as mangy as ever, but otherwise not bad.