Overview
There are no cats in Bloodborne - my view was that perhaps they were viewed with superstition (like during witch-hunts) and were rounded up and burnt. Thus, this creature would be one that escaped and/or survived the flames, though disfigured.
Peter Han is an artist who primarily uses brush-pens with great skill, though he also uses watercolours. He advocates dynamic sketching, understanding the form of the creature you're trying to design.
Research
- The Sketchbook of Peter Han, a book I recently received from his Kickstarter campaign
- Peter Han's drawings on facebook
- Sphynx, manx, and burnt cats on Google Images
Process
Pencil sketches to get out initial ideas - burnt, disfigured, hunched, melted. Then I drew cats from images on Google - hairless sphynx cats, a manx cat, and a decayed, dead cat from an article I saved. Pencil, then thin brush-pen, and then watercolour. I only have a few colours so it limited my palette and forced me to consider each colour carefully.
Further watercolour sketches - cats burnt in a wildfire, and two more sphynxes to show their range of movement. I then combined all the elements I liked from previous images into a final watercolour creature design - hairless, burnt and bleeding, with huge paws and a partially disfigured face.
Reflection
- Useful to break away from digital into a forcibly limited colour palette (12 pans in a field sketch set)
- Personally find it useful to draw things traditionally first; it gives me a better sense of the proportions
- Traditional art (especially pen/paint) makes each line count, as it cannot be erased
- Useful to break away from digital and experiment with other mediums
- Eventually the process would speed up as the pencil would become unnecessary
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