Christopher Null

🇧🇪 /🇺🇸 /🏳️‍🌈 Digital 2D/3D Artist and Solo Dev || Warframe IGN (Xbox): Untitled Obj#811 || Email: [email protected] || #TennoCreate

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The poster boy for my world building project of BRUTAL

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-JAWBREAKER- In the desolate world of Brutal, isolation can be utterly paralyzing. Jawbreaker understands that in order to survive their harsh environment, they are better off unified than alone. Instead of living as two separate beings, they meld together into one body and mind. A marriage that requires a great amount of empathy and affection towards both merging creatures. Benefiting both physically and mentally, with the knowledge of each other's deep commitment.

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-COPPERHEAD- Few inhabitants have an innate understanding of the world they occupy and their purpose to it. Others, like the Copperhead, are lost and confused. The more he tries to learn the less he understands. Hiding his anxiety through outbursts and brute-like behavior. While mostly scared and lonely he can only see everything around him as a nail that needs hammering.

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-NEEDLENOSE-

BRUTAL is a personal project that combines my love for brutalist architecture and body horror. Brutalism is meant to emphasize functionality and raw material. I want to apply those same principles to creatures that would inhabit the same world. Another design inspiration came from abstract figure sculpting and how the human form is still recognizable after being broken down to its most simplest forms and shapes. Overall BRUTAL is a story about how these creatures strive for and find intimacy in a cold and desolate world that they themselves are unfamiliar with.

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Started designing a fan skin for Hydroid inspired by barbary pirates. Thinking about giving him some tattoos 🤔 but what of?

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You can't be a pirate 🏴‍☠️ without a rival, or would Sevagoth and Hydroid be mates in 1999? Who else would join their crew?

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Can't believe it took me this long to make a proto-design for my favorite frame! 🐙 How do you think Hydroid got that gnarly eye patch?

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Happy pride! 🥳 🏳️‍🌈 pridemonth may be over soon, but that will never stop me from making gay art. (Or shamelessly posting my ships 😏)

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🎉 It’s finally done! 🎉

Here is my submission for the Tennocon 2025 Community Showcase 🥳

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Took a break from working on my community showcase submission because this trend was so cool! I had to take part. Thank you @MuraCasardis & @studiocyen for the wonderful idea 💙

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Hydroid prime without the flaps makes me think of a pirate wearing chaps. I will not apologize for the embellishments, I couldn't help myself.

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I need help! I'm working on my submission for this year's tennocon community art showcase and I wanted to give Scaldra some more love since I rarely see any fanart of them. There’s a poll running on my Twitter / X where you can vote for which sketch you like the best or you can just comment your thoughts on this post! I’d really appreciate anyone's remarks or feedback :)

Here’s the poll

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I can only imagine the Wolf of Saturn Six enjoying 1999 by watching me get my ass kicked fighting the Technocyte Coda. 🎸

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You can't have Warframe severance without Vauban providing the music dance experience 🎶

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“The game is mysterious and important.”

What other Warframes do you think would fit the characters of severance, and what did you think of the season's finale? 💧

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Gauss injures himself a lot, mostly by running into walls. Luckily Grendel is there to be his first aid.

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I made even more proto-Grendel and Gauss art 💙🧡

I thought about also sharing some of the characteristics and ideas I had while designing proto-Grendel and Gauss, a lot of which I took inspiration from people who commented on the original design sheets. (Thank you for that <3)

For Gauss, I really liked the idea of him being an old hot rod lover with greying hair on the sides and a large scar on the bridge of his nose from all the walls he keeps crashing into. I thought it would be fitting for him to wear a black leather biker jacket along with his atomicycle helmet, which I made based on his original design mixed with a fighter pilot helmet. Unlike Amir, Gauss uses his inline skates to achieve his inhuman speeds.

I designed Grendel as a large juggernaut unit with lots of padding around his original warframe design. Accompanied by a full ginger beard that slightly greys out the father it gets to his hair. He has no real medical skills but always keeps a box of band aids (with hot wheel-like designs on them) in one of his many pouches to patch up Gauss with. Dealing with an insatiable hunger. Grendel's constantly growling stomach reminds him of the Helminth strain growing inside him.

Thinking about how their romance system would work in the game. Coming from someone who has two partners, I really loved the idea of Grendel and Gauss being a romanceable couple. That way the drifter can enter their relationship as a third. They could even have a KIM group chat with the two of them reacting to the drifter's messages.

These are just my thoughts and ideas for a personal headcanon, but I really loved reading the suggestions people commented on the original design sheets, so feel free to add your two cents :)