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Quick 3h work, started this one as a doodle and decided to render fully later on

A concept art for a character for our game Vampire Tactics
We hope you guy will like it :)

Here are my wip stuff i am very proud of and wanna show it to you guys.

Here is some context for those who are curious:

Arcanists of Istar - scholars and astronomists who are secluded inside Istar Tower. Istar tower stores the biggest library in the world filled with lost lore and knowledge of understanding the stars and forbidden magic. Their magic works by observing the stars and planet alignments to cast specific spells during that period. The common use of magic is Su(healing), Moon(guidance) and Constellation(devastation manifesting) magic. There us also a subclass of Arcanists called Eclipsers, who specialize using both Sun and Moon getting power from both at the same time. They are only fe existing because to become one one must accept All-Man's path of Self-nihilism(some say they so strog they manifest the Eclipse itself at their will at the cost of their body is disentegrating from mortal realm).

Chaos worshippers - cult-like faction built around the belief that humans were spawned into the world by the chaotic nature and thinking of gods. The leader, Pan Dhrae, found a source of chaos in form of a flame which gave her kindled mind of accepting her true chaotic nature every man is born with. Accepting the chaos grants the person to manifest power and strength from chaos itself at the cost of one life force. Manifestation can be almost anything, but bigger or complex it is, the bigger the toll.

Rotspawn - a race of human existences which were infected by special brain fungus turning them into bug-zombies. Each rotspawn is unique because each one upon metamorphosis gets to remember only 2 things - 1 positive trait and 1 negative trait (by trait i mean something what labeled us as true-self. Being decieving, generous, honorable, ambivalent, etc.) . Wach Rotspawn manifests different body as well. Some are mantis, some ants, some may appear wasp or flying bug type or sometimes as a larvae/catterpillar bug.

I'm working on a dark fantasy manga, for which I'm first laying down the world building for (hopefully I'll improve some on my drawing skills till then 😅). Here's some lore for now, I'll drop the elves some minutes later, if anyone's interested.

Hope y'all like it ! Slight body horror

A cosmic horror creature inspired by Star Spawn entities, Lovecraftian aesthetics and dark fantasy worlds

Artwork by Helder Ribeiro

This drawing comes from a sketch I made years ago; the idea was very vague, and unknowingly, I ended up creating one of my favorite drawings.

Designing the elf and the armor was somewhat difficult; I wanted her to look confident and calm, entering a bar where she was underestimated, and well, in the end things went very wrong, or maybe she came for her prey. I still don't have a defined story, but I hope to make it soon

Second post here, I’ll be sharing some concept art here from time to time.