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[Gonna Getcha]

This is the most realistic and menacing drawing of Eleanor, but I miss the little jewerly she had in the previous drawings. Also note that the axe design is different on every drawing.

RayBeckham responds:

The axe started off as a big meat cleaver, then it became a straight razor, now it's trying to arc out into a sickle!

She had a pin in her head bandana that was sort of flower/sun shaped. After a while I felt like that was a bit too "on the nose" ironic. The necklace bit was from Sanguine 1, although I suppose it could've been kept.

If the sentiment is that her outfit needs more to stand out and be more than a generic girl, i'd agree but i'm not sure what to do. I try to keep things simplistic and I wanted her to look rugged, unkempt or devil may care.

[Auto Necrochess Assets]

It never ceases to amaze me that these are just static images. But in the game they move, attack and fall down so smooth it seems there are many animation frames.

Stopsignal responds:

Yeah, those squashes and rumbling the sprites do give them quite a bit of life! I'd wish i could animate them all, i love animating, but it's just too much work!

[Adorable Eleanor]

Adorable ^__^. Even fangs look round and cute. However I think it would be even more with a bigger head and a shiny brooche on a headband/scarf.

RayBeckham responds:

You mean like how you draw your characters? I'd love to see your drawing of Eleanor.

I want to see a character evolve and change over time. I wanted gold eyes this time around... again, I don't know if that'll stay or go with time but the only way to improve something is to experiment.

I'm not sure if I want to lose the scarf brooche or not... kinda looked like a flower/sun which feels a bit too "on the nose". Although, I thought it would be a neat subtle easter egg to make it into a symbol that appears somewhere in a game, which would cause fans to speculate the fuck out of what it means to the character and her past life, ha!

[Hyrus Tenretin]

I honestly thought it was a self-portrait for a rather long time, until you set a photo of a guy who looked different. I was shy to ask about it, and it's rather amazing story you got.
While art style doesn't clearly indicate - does he have a beard or sideburns?

RayBeckham responds:

This drawing was a bit of a fluke, and I can't remember exactly how I made it. It involved lots of filtering effects in GIMP, which is why it looks so different from everything else i've drawn.

The character is clean shaven. The idea is that he has long hair coming down over his face and that he has some kinda garment producing those lines on his jaw. I feel like it's too old to edit, cause I can see how it might be confusing and can't really picture what it's suppose to be. This is my oldest drawing by far... we're talking 2004-6ish maybe. Whenever I first got Flash. I wish I had a better record.