DD1101 - sculpture

It took a long time to settle on what this sculpture should be. I had dozens of rough concepts of pre-existing characters and new bizarre-looking monsters, but nothing realy inspired me.

The Japanese freeware game Yume Nikki has always been a wild inspiration to me, so I looked up this character sheet from the fanmade wiki for ideas. Number 35 on this list, the Henkei Shita, really called out to me. Other candidates were the Pirori (number 21), and the first train passenger (number 56).

Here's an isolated image:



The henkei shita (meaning 'deformed') is generally perceived to be a headless, pregnant female. Due to the horrific and violent imagery there, fans (myself included) feel this symbolises a fear of pregnancy within the female protagonist. People believe this could conclude she is terrifed of her own sex and wishes to change it, but the process and the male sex or gender terrify her, so this puts her in such immense emotional turmoil she doesn't know what to do. That's more or less my interpretation of the game.

They are found on a path connecting the Eyeball World to Hell. In Hell, a red version which bleeds yellow, with yellowed teeth and a yellow eye can be found.

In a way, this monster feels personal to me, too.






Unfortunately, this hasn't been painted yet. As of typing this, it's not fully dry, so I can't do much with it. When I do paint it, it will either be the first or last design in that above screenshot.

DD1101 - silhouette character 02

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The second character for the silhouette assignment!

This one's a total redesign of an old character, Nayamou! He/she/it/they (maybe just she? She looks like a transwoman, a little bit) has a very iteresting body, I think! A big ol' demon chimera dragon thing! Her skull is painted with various, generally random designs.

She's a major personal character of mine, even an alias I've used for a long time. A demon counterpart to Daryl.

DD1101 - silhouette character 01

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So here's the first finished character for the silhouette assignment! I like this character... I think I'll name him Trent. He's possibly a hunter or a taxidermist, or both. He's probably a recluse, and revels in his androdyny. He probably doesn't like gender-specific pronouns in public. Who knows!

This was a really fun character to design, as he's largely outside of my comfort zone in terms of character design! He's growing on me!

DD1101 - silhouette batch

Here's a batch of silhouettes I cooked up for the main assignment! The assignment was to generate two silhouettes and devise two finalised characters from that, but I had too much fun coming up with all of these that I lost track of everything.

I ended up settling for the first and last ones.

Thw top row are all pre-existing characters--the demon chimera Nayamou, the demon lady STRAY (loosely inspired by the Pokemon Froslass), and former motocross enthusiast Leon Greene.

DD1101 - silhouette practice

First attempt with generating a character from a silhouette.

The left silhouete, with a triangle base, is a rough concept for an alien species based on the race known as Forever from the musical project Ayreon.

The left, with a circle base, is my character Houston again!