After a bit of head-scratching I've taken one step back to pin my protagonist's image. Starting (or restarting?) with a silhouette sheet I was looking for a portrayal of characteristics while balancing practical application in animation.
Still aiming for childlike proportion, David would have a large head with slender body and limbs. This could be combined with larger extremities to support an ungainly appearance akin to a lamb or calf, perhaps a nod to the Bambi effect to evoke sympathy in the audience.
I'd first envisioned David's clothing as a simple hospital gown, oversized to emphasise his small frame and frailty. With more thought on his backstory and support for the visual I started to look at function, source, age and colour.
What more could a worn, old t-shirt have to tell?
Psychiatric patients might only be allowed slip-on shoes but how much more could be discerned from shoes with laces removed or trousers that sag low for the lack of a belt?
Taking a Stax Records logo c.1961 I experimented with a t-shirt logo that might reference Harry Stack Sullivan. (Where could we have heard that name before?) Harking back to the origins of the story, the designs also use Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin palette.
I feel ready to work up the main character but I expect I'll be back to examine more references before we're good to go.
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