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A DASH OF COLOR
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A DASH OF COLOR
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"So we bought tubes of red, yellow, silver, black, and blue makeup and started experimenting with designs. I even went back and watched The Road Warrior to get some inspiration, which worked like a charm.
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One thing was for sure: with the paint on, I didn't feel like Joe anymore; I was Animal. One look at Mike, and I knew he'd also checked out long ago in favor of Hawk.
With only a couple of brush strokes to the face, we could step out of our normal lives and into the boots of Road Warrior Animal and Road Warrior Hawk. As a kid, I'd always wondered what it would be like to have a secret identity and superpowers like the Hulk and Superman. Now I knew.
I'll never forget the looks on the other guys' faces the first time we revealed our new look backstage before TV tapings. We were in Atlanta in the offices of the little studio where we taped World Championship Wrestling. The studio had no real locker room to speak of, so the guys just changed in various partitions in the office. When Hawk and I emerged from our cubicle with the new haircuts and the paint, the banter of all the wrestlers instantly died into complete silence."
“Since day one, Hawk and I were always modifying our paint jobs. The look I was using with the devil horn lines was cool, but it needed something more.”
“Hawk started experimenting with two different looks. The first was what he called the joker, which was a giant upside-down red triangle under his left eye and then a giant spiral of black completely covering his right eye. Sometimes he played around with the colors and the spiral part would be blue or something, but the joker look became the design Hawk would be most recognized for over the years.”
“His second go-to paint job was a full-faced concept that looked kind of like a flying hawk right on his face. Between his eyes on the bridge of his nose, Hawk drew a point and then flared two big lines diagonally up toward each side of his forehead. Then he took those lines and went almost straight down each cheek, stopping short of the jawline. When Hawk connected those lines back up to the center of his nose and dropped down for a final point down to the tip of his nose, it looked like a cool wing span. Then he filled it in with solid colors, sometimes all black.”
"I started connecting the devil horn lines on each side of my forehead to the lines on the far sides of my face and under my eyes. With everything drawn together, it created an outline I started filling in with black, red, green, and yellow. The result was a solid, evil-looking mask, a perfect translation of how I felt in character: badass."
"Inspired by the new addition to our gimmick, I also started to experiment with a new Road Warrior Animal paint job. Sketching out some ideas, I began to draw a web with a spider in the middle. That was it! I drew the webbing onto my face in the same general shape as my standard devil horn look, only I didn't fill it in with solid colors. I simply connected a series of lines into a point between my eyes and then painted a little black spider hanging right in the center.
It gave me chills looking at it. I thought, don't get caught in the web. Hell, yeah. Being stuck in Animal's web meant certain doom for all unfortunate prey."
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FAN TATTOOSWhile it’s not all that unusual for wrestling fans to have tattoos, often of their favorite performers, most focus on a singles competitor.
If you find a wrestling fan with a tattoo representing a tag team, odds are that it will feature Hawk & Animal. |