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One of my assignments was to design some of the human characters too. So, with a bit of research, I did a series of drawings that I believed would be helpful in terms of authentic costume design for pre-Columbian natives in the New World, tools and activities.
In this drawing, I have called out the tools -- and how they're used. This character is drilling through solid bone with a reed and a hands-free vice. The reason for this is to make a bone hook. The kind you see being sold as necklaces today in gift shops.
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Showing a variety of different tools, and their usage, I believed would help they guys on the Brother Bear project see things in a different way.
Here, I'm illustrating how the natives would have made planks of wood with an obsidian adze.
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These poses and characters were all drawn without photo reference, but rather with lots of research on the usage of stone age type tools.
I was fortunate to have worked on a previous project where I had already done research on this subject, and already bought the books on Native American stone tools. I'd be pretty handy if I ever ended up on a deserted island!
The drawings were drawn on newsprint with prismacolor pencil.
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