Turban Dude!

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First of all I want to apologize for not having posted in such a long time.  School has been taking most of my attention the last few days.  But, I've decided that, just like everything else in life, I just need to make time to post stuff up here.  

So I've wanted to delve more into the character and world of the turban guy I've been putting into a lot of my paintings.  It's funny I just put him in there to add more drama to some of the scenes and I liked how much dramatic billowing you could get from a turban, but now that I've put him in so many things I want to do more with him so my wife and I have been bouncing ideas off each other and we have the beginnings of a world and a story.  So in my free time I'll be posting some of the concept sketches and things that I'll be making as we flesh out what we want to do with it and as we get more finished pieces I'll be sure to post them up here too.

This piece is just a quick sketch I did this morning trying to nail down what I want my turban guy to look like.  A lot of my inspiration for this character will come from the old Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns.  I liked those movies a lot as a kid and the whole nameless wanderer motif seems to fit turban dude rather well, though I guess I'll have to figure out something better to call him eventually than turban dude.  Anyway I hope everyone had a great weekend!