Sketches/ideas

First idea was a scorpion, however I decided that seen as I will be repeating it over and over, that maybe a scorpion wouldn't be the best option for me, and if it didnt have a mexican sombrero, it wouldn't be recognised as mexican. The obvious choice would be to do a mexican stand-off, so I started to try and differ from that, and drew a few sketches for characters I could use that reminded me of Mexico.


Character ideas:

Some ideas were:

• Scorpion stand-off,
• Fajita eating contest - peppers alive, scared, etc.
• Exam? Time on the walls, student sweating, panicking the times almost up.
• Mexican wave.

I liked the characteristics of the bulls so decided to go with bullfighting, but add a spin to it. My initial idea was for the bull to run up to matador and fling him into the air, but after bouncing around ideas I decided on having the bull being playful, and just running up to the matador, sliding under the red cape, snatching it, and putting it on and looking cool. But the matador could be a wimp, shaking and sweating, then passing out at the end once he realises he's okay, and the bull is just performing. I wanted to take away from the serious competitiveness of the sport, as I don't really agree with it, so instead of making it serious, I added some fun to it. Making my characters exaggerated and fun. I did a little research into bullfighting, but mostly just to see what the matador wore, and not much else, as I didn't want to be to strict about it.

I needed a matador: