Second piece of art for the countdown, with a bit of medium blending going on. ‘Cos I like fuckin’ around with cheap filters, innit? If you want to see the undoctored image, CLICK HERE.
As you guys should know, Dio's doing Inktober this year, and is centring it around her Creepy & Crawly project. She drew a character I let her borrow for the series, Yuna, for the 18th; I decided to follow suit by drawing her initial incarnation.
Yuna was initially created to be the protagonist of a Clock Tower inspired project way, way back in 2009 that’s currently going under the tentative name of Barnballow’s Estate. The plot has been refined and rewritten a lot so it’s still in flux, but the basic gist is that Yuna is a parapsychology student that becomes infatuated with a particular residence somewhere in England- a massive estate that belonged to a family that incurred a terrible tragedy during World War II, that cost them family members and severely damaged their home, and is supposedly haunted by those that perished that day. She intends to do her thesis on the building and, deciding first-hand experience and evidence gathering will sinch top marks, arranges a flight to England to visit the estate herself. She of course finds out that the home- almost impossibly huge in stature and land coverage- has darker secrets then what she’d been lead to believe. In fact, the home’s long, tragic, and bloody history reaches further and further back in time, and as she travels deeper and deeper into the house- accessing long built over portions continually as she does so- she comes closer to understanding why this particular patch of land has amassed so much sorrow and tragedy...
It was the project that gave rise to the same shared universe as my Wandering in the Dark prompt; a world much like our own, but with certain places or areas that attract those in dire straights like flies, and from their suffering give birth to an unspeakable amount of evil. So, naturally, it’s a story that’s leaning towards the very bleak end of the horror spectrum.
The above image features Yuna, and one of the pursuers she encounters throughout the house; the initial pursuer created for the project back when it was a straight up Clock Tower carbon copy, named “Knifeboy”. He’s a boy, and he has a large knife. I intend to keep the character in the final version of the project in some capacity, but I’m going to continue to refine his design, work on his story, and give him a far better name; his design here was kind of spitballed in the moment, as I haven’t drawn him for about seven or eight years. The element I’m proudest of is the distortion effect gained by taking a photo of the image on a screen lining up with the arc of Knifeboy’s intended slash; it was completely accidental, but by god am I pleased it’s there.