Hunter's Dream From Bloodborne, From 2020 When The Game Was Turning Five. Drawn With An Attempt To Emulate

Hunter's Dream from Bloodborne, from 2020 when the game was turning five. Drawn with an attempt to emulate Edward Gorey. The outlines for the church and the stairs were made with a very good and proper pair of projections, though you may notice some fudging in those four spike things around the spire because the projections were intersecting and I couldn't be bothered to fix it properly. Two wolves, one simply couldn't be bothered with that at the time and the other definitely spent more than a week getting this finished.

Ordinarily when I say I drew something with a mouse I am compelled to add, "using the Pen tool" as while it doesn't make the process faster it does take the need for precision movement away. Every single visible line in this drawing was done with the Pencil tool this time, though, because there were 60,000 of them and I think doing that with the Pen tool would take longer than remaking the game from scratch.

In 2019, an artist I followed on Newgrounds, called OutlawEric (though he went by idrawbutts at the time) presented the world with a fun little art challenge called Sprite Draw. On his website, at the still functioning link https://www.beaudu.com/spritedraw one would generate a random set of pixels and interpret them into a figure of some kind. Plenty of folks participated. I was one of them, and decided to do a whole five-by-five grid for some reason. Then in 2020 I decided to do it again, though I was the only one this time. This is the 2020 set, in the Cooler Daniel position next to the 2019 set.

I also decided to write lore for these as a fun creative challenge but I'm too proud of the formatting to post it without and I'd either have to go through the bother of re-exporting all of these with the little labels attached or post them separately, whereupon they wouldn't all fit into one post. The writing is also bad probably.

Eleonore Mordis Linden, a character who came about in response to the art prompt "Design a magical girl with an improbable/impractical weapon." So I went y'know what's real impractical and unwieldy? Impossible geometry. And decided to make her powers the Penrose steps. But not really because I thought them being circular looked nicer and the only way to do that (simply) is to essentially draw a turbine, the geometry of which is quite possible. I did start a different circular Penrose steps thing once that I'd conceptualised mathematically but then my laptop died and took that file with it before being brought back to life. Maybe one day.

Anyway I later decided on a name and personality, the latter of which I recently described as, "the type of person to ask you if it would be funny if she ate this entire ice cream in one go and then do it before you can respond." Then I did that redesign in the first image because my 2019 self didn't have a single clue how to design a magical girl. 2022 me is slightly better but gave her that disaster of a hairstyle that 2023 me has somewhat corrected.

2020 me would like you to see these projections from the making of that second image:

Plus the result of those, sans Eleonore:

With a mouse, too. Little guy was not acting normal.

Backgrounds from some character illustrations I did a while ago. They've aged better than the actual characters so I'm posting them on their own.

"Pontes had so very many appointments to attend to, the bulk of them made centuries in advance. He did not have room for Death in the schedule, and to expect otherwise was simply unreasonable."

Character design/drawing from 2020. Very much tonally inspired by the work of jouste.

From 2021. One of those drawings where I'm proud of the effort put in but also think it would've made for a better image if my younger self wasn't so invested in the flex.