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Law about to do surgery on Luffy. The other surgery playlists are just the entire Tool discography

I just need my feverish moleskin-mauling to be seen by the world, hah. Designing a new ttrpg character that is based on horror/slasher tropes, and tbh it’s the most difficulty I’ve had nailing down a design in recent memory. Slashers are deceptively simple in design, but I think require a lot of nuance and hard work on the designer’s (and actor’s!) part to be genuinely intimidating. A good slasher is a cumulation of the right shapes (’The Shape’ is aptly named), and imo, shapes>detail when you are just seeing something for an instant while it’s lurking in the shadows, or just before it strikes. They’re just a little off kilter, massive things always lurching forward just a smidge, always ready for pursuit. I think that unique posture is important. Especially in a more cartoonish medium, stuff like ‘what shape do their sleeves make’ is important, and contributes to how the character’s weight is distributed, where our eye is guided to first, etc.

In a mask, how much of the face do you show? I think visible eyes are good, it adds a frightening little dash of humanity, but then, is the mouth too much? Showing the mouth gives you the expectation that they will talk, and I think lends itself to a certain kind of character, but might not work for everyone. How far from human does the mask go. Where is the sweet spot on that gradient. The anonymity/decay of the masks of characters like Michael Meyers and Jason Voorhees are spectacular in their menace through simplicity. They’re bold impactful imagery. They’re iconic. How do you capture that sort of lightning in a bottle while remaining true to the character’s themes? These are all rhetorical questions that I’m asking myself through the process.

Voirrey, the character, has made a career of making latex prosthesis and masks for horror films/working with animatronics, and is awakening to dark powers after failing at pursuing said profession. Since said powers have to do with the ability to communicate with the dead, one would conclude that perhaps her main mask should be themed as such (skeletal/zombie/etc) but, I dunno. Tar Man’s the only zombie that I have ever thought as being sufficiently offputting (hence basing the first draft mask on that). I have also flirted with a ‘skinned anamatronic’ mask (seen above, Jake drew that one) but am deeply concerned with its legibility as such. I think there are too many moving parts to make it look readable and iconic. As of now, I’m tooling around with a lot of different things, and haven’t settled on any of them, but that’s alright. There’s not a big rush and the challenge is titillating. Another direction I’d like to pursue is just a very decayed, vintage Topstone-type mask.

But, after a few passes, I did manage to settle on her human face:

The other contributing factor to this challenge is that her face had to have enough range to pull off ‘gonna pull your eye out’ and also ‘normal person’ - she is, technically, with the good guys, and is not in full murder getup all the time. Once everything’s all sorted out, I’ll probably put everything in a much more elegant compilation, but I think this kind of stuff is interesting in it’s rough form. Here’s to my new 6″8 daughter.

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I did say follow for more soft Gladnis right? Funny thing is I don't remember drawing the last picture and I don't know if if ever posted it anywhere.

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Inktober #6/Day 11: Presumptuous

You buy your friend a 700$ suit and suddenly he thinks he’s allowed to like, touch you.

So for today’s Inktober I inked and colored something drawn by my partner @salavante, as I had done for them (Found Here). These dapper fellows are Nezariah Rainier (L) and Griminka Radkos (R), both members of the OPDI; but where Nez is a Tinkerer and therefore sort of an egghead, Grim is a Protector- a Ranger-esque individual who has a magical connection to the land they patrol.