Sticking With The Frankenstein Theme In My Recent Work, I Finished A Portrait Of Victor's Little Experiment!

Sticking with the Frankenstein theme in my recent work, I finished a portrait of Victor's little experiment!

Design Notes: Victor's Portrait (I mention it here a couple times.)

A lot of my decisions for this were based on my previous portrait, so I could have as much contrast between the two as possible.

He's a quite purple, but this was to insure that he had a clearly cooler skin tone than the one I used prior. I also just like coloring purple skin. (:

The darker marks are supposed to look like muscle under the skin, though not every muscle is represented.

Victor's portrait has him facing in the opposite direction of this one, and his eyes are a cool green that contrasts against the warm skin. Here, the warm eyes contrast cold skin.

There's no halo this time. I considered adding a broken, sliver one, but I like the implied power imbalance between the characters.

Critique is always welcome, and the ID is under the cut! (:

Have a wonderful day/night! (:

[ID: A portrait of Frankenstein's monster. He has dull purple skin, and muscle fibers are visible under it. Silver staples hold together pieces of the skin along seems around the neck and extending from the jaw. His lips and hair are dark, almost black. His eyes are a bright yellow. End ID]

L,,, lebsians

This is why I try to avoid asking my siblings for art ideas. This will probably end up part of my sibling's shrine.

The ID is under the cut, and critique is always welcome!

[ID: A depiction of the character Elmo, from the children’s show Sesame Street. He is facing forward, but his eyes are pointed away from the camera, in different directions. They and the third eye that floats around the halo are all blue. Split pieces of a goldfish surround the head and golden halo. End ID]

He's back! (:

For those who don't follow me, this is Aust, my pc for a Curse of Strahd campaign run by one of my friends. Of course I finished this after the first session, but I can now move forward with the rest of the pcs!

The rest of the party includes: a (drunk) dragonborn wizard, a plague doctor themed sorcerer, and a satyr fighter.

Design notes and the ID are under the cut! Critique is always welcome, and I hope you have a wonderful day/night! (:

Design/Character Notes:

A number of changes were made from his original portrait, mostly in the colors of his skin and scarf, but it was done to have stronger values and contrast around the face and glasses.

As he is a dark elf, I feel obligated to give him sunglasses and as many spiderweb details as possible.

His armor and robes are designed with travel in mind, rather than combat. Most of his abilities are for general utility or healing, so he likely won't be on the front lines often.

He's now level two, and his Wild Shape forms include a spider, giant wolf spider, and mastiff.

[ID: a digital drawing of a Dungeons and Dragons character. He is a dark elf, and his entire body is visible. Around his chest and neck his scarf and robes are a pale green, but they darken as they fall around his shins. His skin and hair are both pale, his skin being lavender, and his hair grey. His boots and parts of his robes are stained with dirt and mud, and his armor is scratched. In his right hand he is holding a maggot, and in his left, a walking stick. End ID]

Design-a-Character commission for @obscurelyscandinavian of their High Elf Draconic-Blooded sorcerer!  Super fun to work on! :D

Some Frankenstein-related questions I’ve been thinking about:

Content Warning(s): body horror, death

Is the lovely Creature haunted? In the novel Victor shrugs off the concept of spirits while he’s working, but in the musical, in the song “Waking Nightmare” Creature remembers what it was like dead.

How will he age? Will he at all? It’s reasonable to assume that his different parts are different ages. But, if he doesn’t age, could he reach a form of immortality, provided he doesn’t injure himself?

If he did injure himself, could he rebuild parts of himself?

Does his hair grow/how fast? Victor could have made an actual scalp, but he also ould have done what doll artists do when putting new plugs of hair in the head. (Look up doll re-roots on YouTube if you don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s a fun process to watch.)

Does he have a similar personality to the person who’s brain he’s using?

Did Victor have to use human parts? How many times could he not find a satisfactory piece in the charnels, and decided to use something from an animal?

How many bodies did Victor use? Creature was built larger than a normal human to give Victor more room to work, but Victor would have had to go out of his way to find (or make?) pieces to match the scale.

Are parts of Creature not quite symmetrical because of that?