Dan Fairhurst has been an awesome client and teammate over the last few years. I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to throw a round or two with him. With the success of last year’s initial Loki stamp; we’ve returned to the drawing board to expand and improve upon it.

There were two ideas up for decisions and one of those will be something carrying over to Loki III. Both Dan and I really loved the fierce nature of the initial stamp. I wanted to simply open that up and show a bit more of his features. Doing a 3/4 head stamp shows just enough progression and left the center open for stamping purposes. Some of the biggest hurdles were the fact I don’t do too many characters so 2 major things needed to happen to make it feel like this is a continuation:
1. I need to keep the likeness of the first stamp.
2. I had to refer and get feedback from a few artists to realize a few things were out of perspective.

Loki’s right horn was definitely one of them. I had to shift that over and ax his front chrome helmet shading. Coming down to the final stretch; it was a figuring out where the secondary foil would highlight. I felt like pulling attention toward the accentuated chin and nose gave him a very similar Green Goblin vibe that I wasn’t going for. Pulling out some of those highlights and tastefully doing just the eye’s kept it balanced.

I can’t thank Dan enough for wanting to continue his Loki series in 2020. I don’t sit down and practice life drawing all too much so it’s a new challenge every time. You can reach out to Dan Fairhurst here to support his disc golf tour schedule:

https://www.facebook.com/dfairhurst1