Here is the three perspective views of my character that I designed.
He is a spirit of the road. The idea is that it is kind of like a man made taniwha. After looking up the different types of taniwha I found that the river taniwha, described as a whale sized tuatara or gecko was the most appropriate, as like a river the road is long and winding and provides transport. At first I thought of making it tuatara looking, but when Ben gave me the idea of contrasting a spirit of the road with one of the river, I decided to make it look like a gecko as the river spirit would be a tuatara. I believed this showed how much more powerful the river spirit is compared to the road spirit as the tuatara is a much more dominating image than the gecko. In the end I think this was a turn for the best as the gecko looks a lot leaner and faster than a tuatara would have, which I believe shows the in which the road is used for transport compared to the river. Speaking of here is the sketch for the river spirit and some planing on drawing its face from earlier last week.
The river spirit looks more like a natural tuatara than the road spirit as the river is a natural thing, the road spirit on the other hand has reflectors and road stripes on it to show its man made nature.
The point of this is to show that man has more respect for the river than the road in terms of environmental awareness. While the road may not be a very environmentally friendly thing it self it is still part of the environment we live in and deserves the respect that rivers do, ie. not using the roadside to dump rubbish or throwing rubbish out of windows. While this stuff does happen on rivers it is more likely to happen on the road. Man has this belief that because is is man made it is more resilient than say the river, but our modern roads are still young, which is why the road spirit is so small while the river spirit is so large. I will explain further when I post the rest of the hand in later.
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