DW IV - 2D - Beluosus
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Hi everyone! Here I am again, attempting to actually get through a DW. Though, if I end up finding work halfway through like last year, then You'll have to forgive me if I disappear.
2D - Demon Lord
So here's the story:
It was at that moment that one of the tears opened over the battlefield. From the rift came an air most foul. It stank of decay and was densely black. It did not move as in a breeze or a cloud, but instead tendrils writhed to the ground and began to spread into the opposing armies of Norms and Machines. Lungs were choked for breath, exhausts were clogged, and weapons jammed. Paint peeled, metal rusted, cloth wore and tore, and wood began to crack! Both sides found themselves suffering and their struggle ceased to be between one another as a new threat had emerged. The dark fingers of the cloud lifted corpses from the battlefield. Bodies of man and machine were taken into the air, where they were wrapped and intertwined by the evil forces at work. Armor was shaped from bone and steel, muscle and wire! Miasma, the Plague Lord, had arrived!
Miasma, the name given to him by the few survivors of the initial contact, is a Demon Lord of death and darkness. He bears no true form of his own, and exists only as a black cloud of death, decay, and disease. However, in order to bring himself into this dimension, he needed to create a body to tether his energies. He chose his shape from the nightmares and fears of his victims, inspiring fear in order to break his prey as he approaches. He formed his body of the very things he caused. The bodies of both Man and Machine, dead or alive, drawn, torn, and woven into a hideous conglomeration of armor.
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Here's a few really quick doodles. Some are hardly worth calling thumbnails, and one is actually not even related to this concept (14, I believe. She's a demon princess, perhaps Miasma's Daughter)
Please Please PLEASE! Any critique or idea you have about this idea, throw them in. I really want to do this idea justice and get it feeling competitive!
2D - Demon Lord
So here's the story:
It was at that moment that one of the tears opened over the battlefield. From the rift came an air most foul. It stank of decay and was densely black. It did not move as in a breeze or a cloud, but instead tendrils writhed to the ground and began to spread into the opposing armies of Norms and Machines. Lungs were choked for breath, exhausts were clogged, and weapons jammed. Paint peeled, metal rusted, cloth wore and tore, and wood began to crack! Both sides found themselves suffering and their struggle ceased to be between one another as a new threat had emerged. The dark fingers of the cloud lifted corpses from the battlefield. Bodies of man and machine were taken into the air, where they were wrapped and intertwined by the evil forces at work. Armor was shaped from bone and steel, muscle and wire! Miasma, the Plague Lord, had arrived!
Miasma, the name given to him by the few survivors of the initial contact, is a Demon Lord of death and darkness. He bears no true form of his own, and exists only as a black cloud of death, decay, and disease. However, in order to bring himself into this dimension, he needed to create a body to tether his energies. He chose his shape from the nightmares and fears of his victims, inspiring fear in order to break his prey as he approaches. He formed his body of the very things he caused. The bodies of both Man and Machine, dead or alive, drawn, torn, and woven into a hideous conglomeration of armor.
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Here's a few really quick doodles. Some are hardly worth calling thumbnails, and one is actually not even related to this concept (14, I believe. She's a demon princess, perhaps Miasma's Daughter)
Please Please PLEASE! Any critique or idea you have about this idea, throw them in. I really want to do this idea justice and get it feeling competitive!
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On a side note, where do I pick up Alchemy? I've seen some thumbs from it, and it looks like it could really be helpful on this character. Especially once I get into the body-armor thing from the story.
I really love the idea of him being this scale. Hundreds of bodies floating around him, Torn machines, animals... etc... But I'm thinking that at that scale it's hard to make a truly compelling full body image within 1200x1000 pixels. I think I'm going to try bringing him down towards the minimum size for a Demon Lord and see if it won't work a little better.
If anyone can think of a good way to make this scale work, though, let me know. And any other ideas anyone has, feel free to throw them out.
In other news: I've started playing with alchemy a bit, and it's throwing me some fun ideas. May or may not post some stuff from that.
More to come...