J Karmine style/ design update (Patreon)

He is a main character for a thing I wanna work on... but he is definitely not a 'good' guy.

Based on several people I know he was meant to be a statement of a certain kinds of southerners (assholes basically) which is why he originally had a rebel flag on his hat. That was then... this is now... so it needs an update.

What he is ultimately going to be is my indictment on certain types of ideologies. While he is going to retain some of his original dirtbag-ness I also want to do a study on both neo-reactionary and libertarian mind sets and take them to a logical extreme and show how bleak and awful I find it all to be. I imagine its going to be a confusing mishmash but that is only because I find people like this to be a confusing mishmash of disparate and short sighted views. I just need a design to crystallize first. This is my first pass (along with his hair without the hat on which I have literally never drawn before).

To be clear... this is not a nice guy. He is not going to be cartoonishly evil either. I want something with some thought behind it and this is going to be my attempt at something different for myself. I want something human... in more ways than one. He isn't going to be likable but indeed the world is filled with people we don't like. But they are still people though so I will try to make his motivations understandable while keeping his execution questionable.

The actual aesthetic is hard to describe right now mostly because I haven't finalized it yet but if you want a preview to what kind of imagery will inspire this character check this twitter account out. You will probably have to scroll through hundreds of images for it to click. Or not. 

https://twitter.com/postanathema

I do not endorse the views it represents but I do find value in the visual language this collection provides.

TLDR I wanna explore a an 'ends justify the means' type of character