Enigmata's Wizard of Oz

I feel we should clarify what we're doing here... Steammachines is a group of Las Cruces artists who meet on a weekly basis to share artwork, critique each member's work, discuss projects, and exchange ideas. Every week, we come up with a theme to get our pencils moving. This blog is meant as dumping grounds for the work produced during those meetings,announce any upcoming events, etc. This time around, we've decided to test our character design skills by re imagining and redesigning well known characters from the Wizard of Oz. Each week, starting from the end of June, we will drawing characters inspired from the film, with additions from the books as we see fit. We will be updating sporadically with new drawings so check in often. Anyway, here's my contribution... On the left: The Good Witch of the North. The idea behind this was that despite being known as the "good" witch, she is still a witch. Witches are supposed to be scary, and the more potent the witch, the more intimidating her presence should be. I see her name being more of a general label she's earned than a proper description of her alignment. She's not evil, but she's not a crusader for good either. Something like that. On the right: The Scarecrow. Kind of hard reinventing a character whose name alone plants a very specific image in your head. I added some mechanical parts to his arms and spine, and kept his post on his back. His arm is still attached to a horizontal plank while the other has a sickle attached to it.