King David

A character for a story I’m working on here and there (which seems to be most of my original stories these days…). I had actually drawn an initial design for him around the same time I drew Samir, but only just now got around to working out the details. I’m happy with the result, though.

I tried to incorporate traditional descriptions of King David for the design; the bible describes him as “ruddy”, which indicated a tanned, reddish complexion, but this was later mistranslated as red hair. King David in the story is not so much a ghost of the historical person, but rather a manifestation of his presence in the popular imagination, so I felt that drawing from several iterations was fitting.

Completed 5.2.15