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The very first image of MOJO

I was picking through some of my old development art for Mojo recently as I prepare to get into book two and I ran into an old pic of the character. The first in fact. It made me cringe to look at, but at the same time I marveled at how much the character had changed over the years I’ve been drawing him.

This is a story that’s been in my head for quite awhile and only recently have I decided that I wanted to tell the story.
I orginally got the idea while creating a character for the MMO City of Heroes. I created a character called Green Golem who was basically this huge magical golem I imagined the police worked with to on the magical cases that went bad, magical Super SWAT if you will. The character was simple in design, big rock guy but I wanted something cool on his chest. As I cycled through an amalgamum of chest emblems

Early exploration

I happened across a huge gem and it clicked. Alot of the ground works for the character jumped into my mind as I launched my vigilante career. Over the next couple months of obsessive play the character grew more in my mind and I really became more and enamored with the idea of the guy.

 

Starting to move towards the current design.

Long after I let my CoH account fall into disuse, the idea lingered. Eventually I could take being haunted by the idea anymore so I started actively writing. Of course, over the entire time I was drawing. I thought it’d be cool to share some of the old designs with you.

Getting a little warmer.

 

 

This drawing was part of the model sheet I did for Book One.

Mojo as he appears in Book One

Next: The evolution of Creepy.

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