Larunart

she/her | artist | big fan of drawing huge scary eyes | open commissions

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Finished this video game concept a few months ago to apply to Uni, using one of my already existing stories.

I really do hope I get to work on this further in the future, even if “just” in comic form. The content is close to my heart and relates to my own experience with depression, suicide and psychosis / the schizophrenia spectrum. Maybe it could help others find more empathy within themselves for their younger past selves.

I actually got the very first spark for this story back in… 2017? 2018? It’s insane how much has changed, it really does feel like it gained a mind of its own. Jane was originally the protagonist with a whole lot more curses involved. For a hot second it was even set in a magical boarding school! Imagine that!

Game in general is inspired by Silent Hill 2, The Cat Lady and What Remains of Edith Finch. If I gave this another try I’d definitely include more fake screenshots.

Some slides (3) are missing - you can view them on my ArtStation profile :-)

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Characters I designed and illustrated for my team’s game project named “Nothing to Confess”, developed from October 2025 until January 2026.

In this 2D point-and-click video game with visual novel elements, you are a lawyer sent by the UN to evaluate the legal system of Imperia. Your job is to challenge the future crime accusations by the surveillance state’s AI against the people, who don’t even have the chance to defend themselves and are jailed immediately. Use the facts from the past and future to refute the AI, keep innocent Imperians free, and eventually prove to the world how broken the system is.

I really enjoyed designing these characters and giving input on their writing. I will soon also post additional assets I made like game mockups, but as art director I opted to using photobashing for all elements of the game and then painting over them almost completely, especially the characters. If I had to give it another chance I would push the facial expressions to be more extreme, but in terms of visual novels/…, I think this was a very good learning experience. If I ever have the chance to work on a proper full on visual novel, I would certainly say yes!

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I usually don´t post my freelance work here because it looks quite different from my personal stuff, but this is a sloth mascot I designed last year for a company that creates medical pillows for infants!

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“Betzinger Tracht” — colored sketch of a regional traditional costume from Germany, Baden-Württemberg

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“Decay of the Western Front”

Personal concept art for a possible visual novel.

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Adjusted the design of my OC Jane from my personal project “My Memories of Her”

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“Scrap to Steel” is a playable videogame prototype on itch.io - you play as a dwarven blacksmith in a medieval fantasy world where aliens are invading your world and all your typical fantasy figures are teaming up to fight the common enemy! Go on the battlefield, collect materials while evading enemies, craft and repair weapons, sell them - rinse and repeat.

This was a 4 day University group project where I was responsible for establishing the color pallet and overall visual style for the game by designing and illustrating all the characters and some other 2D stuff. AKA all the stuff I included here :P

It was definitely a fun experience. Normally I’m not really interested in this genre of games (I love me some psychological horror) but I learned a ton from this. If I could go back in time, I would have done a lot of things differently but I’m still thankful for the opportunity. After all, this is the first ever game I have helped with.

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Extraterrestrial Investigator - Animatic

Created this animatic for one of my University assignments (yes, I did get get into it with the “My Memories Of Her” concept, among othe projects :P) and I chose the prompt “phone call”.

Decided to go with a film noir inspired look and story that involves an alien detective living amongst humans in the middle of L.A. who, thanks to his hat, can transform into his human disguise to stay undercover. A lonely investigator with a missing daughter who happens to be held captive in Area 51 for experiments, with the animatic itself showing him learning of this information.

I originally planned for him to be a simple human, with no mention of any aliens at all, but I’m glad I went with this instead. I think the extraterrestrial spin gave it a bit more uniqueness. I do wish I had done a few things differently… for example I don’t think it’s quite clear that it is the hat that allows him to transform in the first place. But you live and you learn. It’s only my 2nd ever animatic and I think I’ve already improved a bit compared to my first one :-) And that’s what counts.

You can find this animatic and the other one on my YouTube channel.

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I got paid to make this

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Happy new year!

Working on an animatic for school, will probably post it here too once I’m finished :D Maybe also some illustration I have had to do. Just an art dump of them.

Hope I have enough time this year though to do a small comic or two… work and Uni is keeping me busy. Working on a children’s book too. Commission work so not my own story. One day!

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Nightbreed character from Ninelives - warmup illustration

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Album cover art for DanMark’s “Live aus der Box”

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was born with a special elf disease that makes me like elves forever

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My first ever animatic - “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”

Made this as 1 of 3 projects for my portfolio to apply to Uni - and I got accepted, hurray!

Looking back ,now that I finished this months ago, I’d do a LOT of things differently if I had to give this another go. For one, I’d keep the shading way more minimalistic. I WAS aware that it’s not ideal to make it this detailed from the get go but honestly, I mostly did it for the fun of it.

Next up, I would have tweaked the design of the female character. Exaggerate the features more (especially body pasture) to highlight the fact that she is an old woman.

Lastly, I should have played WAY more around with the “camera” angles. Utilize more interesting perspectives (maybe add more backgrounds too) because as is, there is too much focus on shots of faces.

But on the other hand, it will probably be satisfying to look back on this flawed project in a couple of years and see the progress I’ve made since then! And I’m still proud that I DID manage to finish this. I actually got the initial motivation for this a couple years ago… I still have an old post talking about it up on this exact blog :P But back then it seemed too daunting so I put it off. Crazy how things work out.

Maybe I’ll return to this in the future if I ever feel like it. And if I do an animatic for the entire song, I’d give it a different story with other characters.

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My first ever animatic - “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”

Made this as 1 of 3 projects for my portfolio to apply to Uni - and I got accepted, hurray!

Looking back ,now that I finished this months ago, I’d do a LOT of things differently if I had to give this another go. For one, I’d keep the shading way more minimalistic. I WAS aware that it’s not ideal to make it this detailed from the get go but honestly, I mostly did it for the fun of it.

Next up, I would have tweaked the design of the female character. Exaggerate the features more (especially body pasture) to highlight the fact that she is an old woman.

Lastly, I should have played WAY more around with the “camera” angles. Utilize more interesting perspectives (maybe add more backgrounds too) because as is, there is too much focus on shots of faces.

But on the other hand, it will probably be satisfying to look back on this flawed project in a couple of years and see the progress I’ve made since then! And I’m still proud that I DID manage to finish this. I actually got the initial motivation for this a couple years ago… I still have an old post talking about it up on this exact blog :P But back then it seemed too daunting so I put it off. Crazy how things work out.

Maybe I’ll return to this in the future if I ever feel like it. And if I do an animatic for the entire song, I’d give it a different story with other characters.

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Just one more month and I’m finally in a new town with my own place!!

A bit small but I’m happy to finally get out. Already have a new part-time job secured as a graphic artist but if it’s not too much I wanna get one at a funeral home too :-)

You know, try to be completely independent.

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Love the concepts for your game/comic! It reminds me a lot of Sally Face and Fran Bow, I hope you're able to make it someday!

Thanks a ton! I LOVED Fran Bow back when it first came out. Still do! The comparison always make me giddy :)