Character Files: Monty

     It kind of is funny to me that my first intentions when I made Monty was to have a nerdy character be the evil one. Monty originally was going to be a villain at first. I had made a business seagull dude that would be his father who was really mad that Cobalt was this teenager who constantly was getting in trouble with the law. Monty, I imagine, would go on the adventures with Cobalt and Mac just to spy on them. I feel he would have made a great twist villain in that story, but now Monty is a lot nicer... sort of. Monty has gone through the least changes in his design over time, I feel his personality has changed the most out of all the characters. Introducing!

Incarnation 1: "Olive," was all Monty was, a simple little short dove character that hated mischief and only wanted order, like his father. I can imagine a good redemption arc for this character though.

Incarnations 2: This isn't the only drawings of Monty, he has had some other drawings, but I found that they were too similar to each other, it took me a while to draw him again when I was going back and drawing the characters, I knew I wanted a third character and I wanted a bird to be in that place. These two drawings were drawn and released at the same time as Cobalt's third incarnations. I definitely want to redraw Monty's "official" design because I feel that it needs the most work.

Fun Fact: Monty's name originally was supposed to be Chandler, but then got changed, making him the character with the most name changes as well.

One thing I'd like everyone to keep in mind, I'm not a professional artist by all means, I still struggle with anatomy and even the simple things like colors and values. So, please, view these posts about the character designs with a little bit of an open mind.