Inktober 2024 #29: Navigator

An illustration of the character Guybrush Threepwood from the Monkey Island series of games holding up a severed, shrunken head known as the Head of The Navigator. The head is from the first game in the series, The Secret of Monkey Island, and it guides Guybrush through a hellish underground maze. The characters are drawn in the style of the third game in the series, The Curse of Monkey Island, with thin, even lines and large blocks of solid colors. Guybrush has a pale complexion, long face, and a large swoop of blond hair and ponytail. He is wearing a white shirt with puffy sleeves and a brown vest. He is looking ahead with a concerned expression. The Head of the Navigator is green and has large, strained eyes, sunken cheeks, yellow teeth in a permanent grit, and scraggily hairs scattered around his head. There is a ghostly turquoise glow emanating from him. His neck is cleanly cut just below the jawline, and two vertebrae are sticking out. He is being held up by Guybrush with a necklace with red beads and eyeballs attached. The background is a swooshy red and yellow that gets darker towards the top.

For today's Inktober illustration, I drew one of my favorite video game characters of all time, Guybrush Threepwood, holding the "head of the navigator", which guides him through a hellish underground maze in The Secret of Monkey Island. This was for the prompt "navigator". 😆

This was created in Procreate with an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, using the Procreate Pencil brush for sketching, the Studio Pen brush for linework, the Inka brush for effects, and the Soft and Medium air brushes for shading and other effects. This is also one of the few drawings I've done for this series that also uses Procreate's built-in effects tools, like Gaussian Blur.

If you'd like to see how I drew this one, you can watch the time-lapse below:

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