character design research

"He is mere skin and bone, not yet fully there as a person. He has outlined his body with a glowing line of white to indicate to us both his sense of imprisonment and his limitations: notice how his arm disappears almost at the elbow-- yet paradoxically it also suggests growth and potential. He is an unhappy, scrawny youth, the wild and exaggerated expanse of pubic hair perhaps indicating the center of his unhappiness. It may seem too individualistic a view, yet in his hysterical way he is expressing the fears and doubts of many young people. He is wonderful, unsettling, and strangely innocent."

 

We would like to make my own adaptation using Schiele's style and embed it together with the character from Yellow Balloon. It's exactly the style we had in mind when we were visualising the story in our heads.

We studied also the Myth of Icarus as source of inspiration: they both  "symbolize high-flying ambition"
http://thanasis.com/icarus.htm