As previously mentioned, the original Bullets, Blades, and Blood narrative spawned from a short-lived story that I co-wrote with a friend called The Light in the Knight. Elements of that story would be recycled and reimagined for Bullets, Blades, and Blood. Here, you will find what little sketches and artwork that I did of both stories.
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I remember drawing and inking this immediately following chapter 25. That was where I honestly thought I was going to end the story to an extent. It would have made sense to display the ill-fated Sara in his arms. This was the first and only time I got a chance to draw Francesca. Her armor had an intentional tiger stripe motif since it was derived from her demonic pet tiger that bestowed her with it. Sara's costume is largely the same as the one to the left of this image, save for the coloring is different to show that she has more control of her other "selves" at this point of the story.
Another one of Sara's alternate personas/forms, Aurora. I kept the long hair from her Black Dove appearance, but gave her the dressings on her arms similar to Final Fantasy X's Yuna and dress with ample cleavage on display like Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.
This was one of the only drawings that I did of the original B3 cast. Koji gets more attention in this sketch than anyone else mainly because I wanted to get his bandaged look down. Elly's look remains vastly unchanged in the current reboot as I always envisioned her with features similar to Nia Long in her youth. Croix's look facially was inspired by a combination of WWE wrestler Dave Bautista and Jason David Frank (Tommy Oliver) as how he appeared in Power Rangers Dino Thunder.
In the early 2000s, I got into a healthy addiction of Chaos! comics, notably Lady Death and then later the one-armed samurai, Baiken from the video game, Guilty Gear XX, that's what vastly inspired Black Dove's initial appearance in this story.
Early concepts of Sara's age progression throughout the story, from her youth when she first encounters Croix to when she grows up years later and confronts him again as his enemy.
My friend that I created Ashtania with was just as big of a fan of Baiken from the Guilty Gear video game series as I was, so I put the obvious influences into her design here. In the main B3 story, Ashtania's design would largely be used for Black Dove. In the current reboot, I have an idea for a similar character by the name of Ashura that will be a similar motif to serve as a homage to my friend and her original design here.
Elandra, or rather Elly (as an obvious nod to the Xenogears character of the same nickname), was inspired by one of my friends' characters that I regularly quested with in Diablo II online that used the same moniker. She was an ice sorceress so that went into her design here as well.
When I first cooked up The Light in the Knight, I had this crazy idea where this character, Dante Malice, would be cold, brooding type of hero, only to softened by his relationship with Ashtania as the story went on. Dante would evolve into Croix in B3 and whole demonic aspect of his nature would be quelled down a bit, at least for the first half of the story.
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