Time for the next archetype as we go through the 12 most common archetypes is: The Magician. The Magician is right up there with The Hero as one of the most common archetypes that you will find, especially if the story follows the traditional structure of 'The Hero's Journey.' Wherever you have a character who is seen as a prophet, a wizard, a wise man, or maybe even that crazy old kook who talks to himself and lives underneath a bridge. Regardless of the state in which you find 'The Magician', the core of the character remains the same, that they have a decidedly clear power or understanding that is special and beyond that of a normal person in their world. Whether through supernatural ability, physical ability or higher knowledge, the core of all of this is the desire for more of that power. The choice as to whether obtaining that power is a good or bad thing is up to you, and where it gets important to define whether you have a more heroic magician on your hand, or an outright villain. The cool thing about 'The Magician' is that they aren't locked solely into fantasy or actual magic in order to fit into this archetype. It could look more like science or technology or influence (political or otherwise). Many times in a story, it is The Magician who comes along and helps to push our hero into action, helping to be the catalyst to start their journey and begin. Pride, hubris, corruption and disassociation can be some built in pitfalls/weaknesses for this archetype, which is super helpful to know in order to help make a compelling character-based story. Understanding those pitfalls will help to balance out the power, whether its true omnipotence or omniscience and help create some built in conflict to be catered to the character's arc. Some examples of 'The Magician' are: Saurumon (LOTR) Gandalf (LOTR) Morpheus (The Matrix) Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars) Professor Severus Snape (Harry Potter) 'Q' or 'Q-Branch' (Bond Franchise) All desire obtaining more in some shape or form. From political power, power over nature, power over man or the obtaining of wisdom and intelligence beyond that of a normal person. Figuring out how the Magician character acts once they achieve that goal is up to you, and it can have pretty large story ramifications!

These sketches are Mostly from memory and a tutorial. I'm working on using more reference. I'm interested in doing a comic (for practice & fun ) where the characters start out as stick figure skeletons and slowly through the story evolve with “shapes” and “form” eventually into a full-fleshed character by the end what do we think 🤔

Many of these from a figure drawing course i purchased, many from memory,

These are what i call the “Lost Files” , as mostly a self learner inhad no idea what i should be practicing or for how long, before moving forward..90% from memory… its so cool to always look back