This second character was also a doodle whose genesis was pure boredom, but the inspiration, though, was derived from various sources. One of the inspirations was from Celtic mythology. There is a sort of entity in Celtic myth that is called the Dullahan, which is sort of a headless coachman who drives a big, black coach (some even say that the horses that help propel the cart are headless as well). Well, when this scribbler says "headless", some say that the Dullahan can actually detach his own head and chuck it about at various objects. So, I was just pondering, for some odd and completely obscure reason, how that might actually work and the various complexities about it. Thus, I thought that the Dullahan could possibly have a great, round, metal head, just in case. Thereby, the head basically hovers over what was once the neck of the Dullahan, but this is just basically an over-explanation over a small little doodle. Another inspiration for this sort of makeshift Dullahan was an artist that I admire, Mike Mignola, the creator of the comic Hellboy. One of Mignola's common characters he's famed for, besides Hellboy, is a sort of dapper kind of specter whose head is merely a floating skull, as you, being the diligent reader, can gather, was a great inspiration for this little Dullahan.
Right-o, until the next post, with hopefully a new detective in "The Detective Scribbles" series, I shall now stop. Thanks for enduring through the rambling. Keep a sharp out for my next post.
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