Grisini Thumbs

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Hello! After I got back from CTN and got a lot of great feedback from people I admire, I decide to work on a new project based on a children's novel called 'Splendors and Glooms' by Laura Amy Schlitz. I must say, I really enjoyed this book. The story was dark (which I really love to do) and the setting was in Victorian England. It's about two orphans and a girl who fell into the world of magic and puppetry. The bad guy named Gaspare Grisini. He was a puppeteer and a magician. The two orphans were his assistants and they despised him. The story started with a girl named Clara who wanted to invite Grisini and his orphan assistants to perform for her birthday party. Grisini, with his magic, kidnapped and turned Clara into a puppet. The two orphans had a hunch that Clara might be kidnapped by Grisini, so they decided to play detective. As they dug deeper into the mystery, they found out that it's not only about kidnapping.

Anywho, I have some thumbnails (not really, hahaha, I draw big 'thumbnails') of Grisini. I wonder if you can help me pick which one you like the best. The reference might not be as useful (just yet), but I imagine Steve Buscemi playing this character hahaha. And Willem Dafoe's cobra-head hair is pretty neat!!! Based on the story, Grisini was shady and cadaverous. He had a set of bad teeth, bloodshot eyes, furrows on face, and few curly hairs growing out of his nostrils. Maybe he should be more skinny like a stick since his name is Grisini and he's cadaverous. And I imagine him to be a trickster. He's poor, but still had enough to eat. So, he could use a little more meat, just to contrast him to his 2 skinny apprentices. It would make him more evil that way, I guess. So, what do u think?