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GantekaFuture — A Pale Grey Death
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Published: 2011-12-13 05:00:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 346; Favourites: 4; Downloads: 8
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This dapper fellow is a Death Knight Legionnaire. That sounds way fancier than it needs. Basically, he's a junior grim reaper with one of those plague doctor masks people love. He was intended to be an agent of a death deity for a Dungeons and Dragons game. His primary purpose is to serve as an escort for souls. He's quite professional.Sadly, this now reminds me a bit of Bleach, despite that the original predates it by many years.
I quite realize his anatomy is off, and for the most part I left it that way for this revision. Note primarily that his one thumb is much larger than the other. I actually shrunk it down a bit too. Additionally, his eyes would be greatly out of place under that mask. I just like to imagine that under that white porcelain is a roiling mass of black chaos and eyeballs.
Based off a scan of a pencil sketch drawn in 2003, then totally redrawn in Photoshop 7 with the intention of keeping a pencil-like appearance.
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I have to ask, where are all of these characters from? They seem to have stories that go along with them, where are the stories? Just in your head, or are they written down somewhere?
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Well, these characters come from several sources. When I run games for Dungeons and Dragons, I usually start by putting together a history and background of an area with details on a few important figures. This makes up a majority of my fantasy characters. I try to use the same overall world for my games so I can reuse and build upon what I've already got.
The guy depicted here had his concept absorbed into a minor deity for a pantheon I put together and became known simply as Grim Face. He made an appearance in a pair of novellas I wrote back in 2007-2008 for fun.
The pantheon was first started to house alternate versions of characters from a sci-fi story I was putting together, which is basically just pages of notes, profiles, plotlines, genealogies and science concepts. I've tried to make a few games in RPG Maker out of it. So basically I've got three "catalogs" of characters. One for sci-fi, one for the novellas and one for Dungeons and Dragons. Oddly, there is overlap between all three with various versions of some characters.
Hope that answers it.
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It does answer, thank you. I think for me the most interesting part is the overlap of characters.
I tend to keep my characters in different sandboxes. My fantasy characters don't really overflow into my superhero characters. I think the fact that you do this is pretty cool.
I dig your art style and think you have a great amount of talent, I've really enjoyed going through your gallery and can't wait to see more from you.
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