Will and Kentworth realistic sketches

So let me preface this by saying that this is one of my favorite drawings I have ever done, because every single thing about it is perfect: both of these characters look exactly like this, down to every detail, and I'm still not entirely sure how I managed to do this in pen @_@ It's usually very difficult to capture the characters from Forest in a realistic style, yet SOMEHOW I managed to do it with these two. I made other attempts for other characters on this same page, but none of them looked right except these.

Will and Kentworth are both in my gallery already (see thumbnails below), so feel free to compare those drawings to this one and see what you think. I actually drew this BEFORE either of those other drawings and have been using this as reference for both of them ever since. This picture of Ken is so terrifyingly accurate, in fact, that I'm worried I'll never be able to draw a better drawing of him than this one! This image of Will is spot on, too, but I thiiiink I can draw him again... I should also add that these two are related! Will is Kentworth's son. I tried to show off their similar and different features, because if they were standing next to each other you might not know they were related, since Kentworth towers over him and Will has his mother's even darker hair. But their eyes and eyebrows are basically the same

I did this in a moleskine journal in blue pen, so I left all the sketchy lines from stage 1 of the drawing (laying out some shapes, like a circle for the head) and various mistakes I made. I could've cleaned it up by I chose to leave it as is because I really like the character that rough sketches have; they look kind of bland once they're cleaned up.


Interested in learning more about the world from The Forest Stories? Check out my Forest gallery.

Or if you're interested in learning more about Kentworth, read a romance story from the same universe: "Lucky Break"

Other pictures of them for comparison: (Or check out the Dockmans gallery)



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