More story stuff! (Patreon)

Everything is unfinished (as usual) but I've been using my ipad more and more! I actually started making my own brushes yesterday for procreate, so let's see if that helps me get used to how different it feels. 

The header is a painting of Bloodless, and I still can't decide if I consider him more zombie or vampire. He has some vampiric traits like bloodlust and immortality, but he was already dead when he was turned so it has left him as a sort of enigma. He died of blood loss too, hence the name he was given. Wren similarly has a dead looking arm that didn't turn with him and is in a perpetual state of decay. His vampire body wants to heal it though, but whenever it does the rot just keeps coming back. How annoying lol.

I doubt you can read all my little notes on this one (writing on the ipad is also strange) but this is a very rough concept of how I always imagine Queen Era looking in her diseased form! I love those veiled statues, and I want the fabric to kind of twist around and stick to her face in a similar way. The glowing lungs will be the focal point, with everything surrounding it dark and in shadow. I want you to just be able to make out everything under the veil, and for it to light her from below in an eerie way. I still can't decide exactly how I want her to shapeshift into the rest of the diseased. 

I need to think of a better name than 'The Diseased'. Plagued Ones? Hmm.

And some clothing studies, mostly of turtlenecks because Epoch practically lives in them. I have over complicated clothing for so long, but I'm finally starting to understand how folds work after reading something that just sort of clicked for me. It explained clothing as a bunch of cylinders and it also talked about points of support (shoulders and chest, waist and hips), gravity and where and why fabric compresses and stretches. The only way I'm learning it though is to think about all of that in my head as I'm drawing. Painting it is going to take a lot more practice, but drawing it is a little easier now! 

This wasn't done on the ipad, but I wanted to explore Alex's style a little further. The third outfit isn't very practical I know, but I definitely want to keep the old lace element on her somehow. I have to find a balance between making my characters look visually interesting and also being realistic. Might have to close the jacket and put the lace over that. 🖤