Bleu From The Breath Of Fire Games. I Have Not Played The Breath Of Fire Games.

Bleu from the Breath of Fire games. I have not played the Breath of Fire games.

Thing I made in 2021 for what would've been Steve Waller's 70th birthday. Credits on albums don't really go into the minutiae of what bit of what track who did what for so I can't quite be sure that he did what I'm about to say he did, but I've seen in live videos that he did guitar talkbox stuff, and he was Manfred Mann's Earth Band's guitarist when they recorded Angel Station so I at least have reason to believe that he was the one doing the really sick talkbox/guitar solo on Angels At My Gate, the title of which this drawing is inspired by. Not the lyrics. The lyrics are about being addicted to cards, which doesn't look as cool.

Drew Rat a bunch recently, decided I'd post all her art together. Wildly inconsistent coloring because 2021 me refused to draw her normally and also I decided between then and now to make her skin and hair a bit darker.

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.

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.

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.