Rebecca Christy Illustration

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This cheerful chap is the stuff of some people's childhood nighmares. Or even their adult nightmares. My aim with this was to make it look old and neglected. Here I used Windsor and Newton water colours along with Derwent inktense blocks. What's creepier than a victorian child's doll? As evidenced by the many horror movies that feature old and creepy possessed dolls, a lot people have a fear of these inanimate objects. Which is why I'm featuring a doll as part of my project. This was coloured with Derwent inktense blocks. Sitting positions

In keeping with the other goblin that I coloured, I've given these two designs a mossy and mouldy type look. Out of all of them I like how the old man goblin and the orcish looking goblin from a previous post are my favourite so a decision has to be made soon on that one. However, I feel like the orcish goblin will fit best because of the tone I'm going for. These were both done with Windsor and Newton water colours combined with Derwent Inktense blocks.  

 Here's some slenderman designs for my card game imagery. Slenderman has become a modern day boogieman and I feel like my imagery needed a contemporary touch. He's often depicted to have tentacles so I've tried to incorporate those as best as I could. I gave him a prop to hold as well; children's toys to demonstrate a key feature of Slenderman - child snatching.

      My scary fish lady. More commonly known as a mermaid. Mermaids are often portrayed as beautiful creatures, and good ones too. But this one is evil as you can probably tell by the sharp teeth and angry eyes. Not your typical mermaid. This idea is based off old pirate tales of mermaids pulling you overboard before drowning you and devouring your body for lunch.

  This poor unfortunate soul is my ghost girl character idea. Not easy being a ghost and reliving (so to speak) being shot over and over again. She's not a happy ghosty. Classic long white dress, dark hair and dead eyes. Why are most ghost sightings that of a victorian era spirit? I've always wondered...

Meet the blobbiest, most slimy ghoul ever. I thought this was a fun idea for one of the cards and what's not to like about a blobby ghoul? Not sure what powers he would have yet. I'm imagining a situation where he could throw up on another player's character causing temporary blindness. The utterly delightful things I think of! This is creepy, right? Thinking of making this a reaper sort of character. Jealous of the living.

So to begin with, I started researching different types of monsters of folklore from Japan. One of the creatures that sticks with me is  Yokai . I love that Yokai can be anything from a normal ghostly apparition to a terrifying demon. For my first idea I went with the classic Japanese horror trope of a girl with long hair wearing a white nightdress. I've drawn her to be a poor, tortured soul forever cursed to exist in our world. Quite the typical profile for a ghost really! Two different designs and torturous situations. Lovely!

These are the final images for my project; my characters and their companions.

Here are all my character coloured with Pro-markers and outlined with pigment liners. Some of the ink has bled over the lines so I'll have to correct this and any other mistakes in photoshop.

Below are some images of the development stages for my vampire's companion.   Cerberus Vampire's protector Scar to add character All three heads have different personalities   Horned leopard Vampire's protector Horns add a satanic/cult-ish look   Bat creature Vampires loving pet Vampire 'V' branding symbol Can be feisty

I sat down last night and started one of my character expression sheet. It's difficult to think of expressions that we make and how mixed up or misinterpreted they can become!

Below are some example of my designs for the dotd companion.   Armadillo idea bow tie to symbolise ownership common armadillo look Iguana Bracelet to symbolise ownership Would perch on the character's shoulder Donkey Flowery garland in keeping with the dotd festival Painted on pattern in fur Chupacabra creature of mexican lore I pictured a humanoid creature

Here are some examples of my designs for this character Winter outfit Hunting weapon for stealth   Military past Camouflage to blend in Sturdy boots for easy travel Ordinary person who's had to learn to fend for herself. Found a bow to hunt for food. Ordinary civilian clothes

Thoroughly enjoying designing the companions for my characters because I feel like I have such freedom with it and I can design some quirky looking creatures!

For my character design project this year I picked three themes. I got the themes from a Facebook page called character design references and they hold these challenges every month with a different theme each time. So I picked: Dia de los Muertos, Post Apocalyptic, and Vampires. I'm finalising my ideas at the moment so here is my Dia de los Muertos character idea. I wanted to give the look of a split personality. Another entity taking over her and sharing her body. All of these characters are designed with the idea that they would be featured in a game. Not a specific game, but these are the types of characters that would fit in the video game world. My next project will be to put these characters in to environments that would also feature in the game.

So lately, I was introduced to an adorable piece of software called Fire Alpaca. Very similar to Paint Tool Sai but with not as many brush options. This is mainly down to the fact that the software is fairly new. That being said I'm enjoying using the software to quickly get my ideas visualised. The more I use it the more I'm questioning whether to integrate it into my final character designs instead using my lovely pro markers. Perhaps I could do the line work in Fire Alpaca and colour with promarkers or do the line work with fineliners and pro markers, then go on to colour on fire Alpaca. These are the choices I'll have to make pretty soon! 

My business cards arrived finally! Vistaprint have some really good deals on. I think these will need updating as my work progresses however because my work is constantly developing!

I have been looking at ways to get my name out there and I've found that Vista Print has a wide range of products that would be fantastic to use. Below are some examples of my favourites. I have actually ordered the business cards and they should be arriving soon.

Hi there, reader! You've stumbled across a blog of my art work! I'll tell you a little about myself first. My name is Becca, I'm 21 and I'm a student studying Illustration with Animation at Wirral Metropolitan College. I'm in my third year and focusing on character design. As the weeks go by you'll see some examples of work from my current project popping up on here. But for now have these!