Coridor's page. Yo, that's one r!

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Coridor is © Lara Ryan 2005 - 2008.

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I had the idea for this guy for a while. His design was already in my mind when I drew him. He has elements of other characters in him. For example, he has a mane like my characters Snarl and spots like Deazel. The arrows are taken from an old character of mine, Arrow the Kitsune. I never really used that character much but the arrow idea was neat so I used it here. His back feet were supposed to be like those of monkeys but I'm not very good at drawing them so I had to change it. He has opposable thumbs on his back feet as well as front and is a very good climber, preferring to be up high somewhere. I shaded him in odd colours to make his fur look sort of pearlescent. Coridor can shape change, he can become a liquid entity and his body can vary in length when he wishes. Thats about it really. He's like a sinister dark idea who plays pranks on people and appears round the corner when you least expect it.
And that was the main idea behind Coridor, who I first drew June 10th 2005. I had the idea a while before then though. I wanted a character who was far out and funky, reflecting a little of my personality as most of my characters do. But also something that was a little mysterious and strange. And so Coridor was born! He doesn't really fit in with any of my worlds as yet but I'm sure that will change in time.

My first picture of Coridor. You can see here the weird way I shaded him and also his rather interesting feet. He gets his colour from my favourite colour, purple. Quite a few of my characters are purple, you may have noticed.
Created with Crayola coloured pencils, my current main medium, with a computer added background.

Sometimes I got bored at work and sketched things in my notebook. Here are a bunch of Coridor sketches. Since I'd only drawn him once when I did these, there are a few mistakes. His mane is supposed to start on his neck at the base of his skull, not his forehead and I spelt his name wrong as well.
The first sketch is a shaded one, the shaded ones look better. I also shaded the fourth one too. The others are just doodles, also experimenting with poses and such. Notice his short legs in the third one! He's in some kind of weird pose in the second one and walking along in the fourth.
I like the first one best! Also I think its the first picture I drew of him with his mouth open (useless fact number 12!)
All drawn in blue biro, although black is my preferred doodling tool.

A reference sheet for Coridor showing his body structure, little facts about certain features of his body and showing his varying body length and natural liquid form.
Please excuse my hand writing, I'm an artist, not a legible writer and I have a problem with writing too fast and the letters coming out messy.
Drawn in Crayola coloured pencils.

My first decent computer created picture in a long time! This was an experiment with gradient shading in Photoshop. I usually use Coridor as my test subject for shading techniques and trying out new ways of drawing. Which is a bit silly, given the fact that he is reverse shaded but oh well. I am very happy with this!
Drawn and coloured in Photoshop.

Coridor's cousin, Sterreo. He was inspired by the 80s and the bright colours and crazy hairdos of cartoon characters back in that era. I kept with the arrow theme since they are the same species and tried to do the clashy wacked out colours similar to Coridor, keeping Sterreo's design about as complex as Coridor's.
Created with Crayola coloured pencils with a computer added background.