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I love this show and I wanted to try my hand at designing each character in my style, which is usually more realistic, and particularly in a way that emphasized their human characteristics while still keeping the animal hybridism. I thought it would be a fun character design challenge - and it was!

I wanted to talk a little about my thought process for each of them as well:

Lucifer was the first one I designed in this batch (I'd actually made a study of Alastor about a year ago) and was definitely one of the most fun to figure out. I tried to lean a lot into the circus ringmaster aesthetic and allusions (which I really love; personally I love the concept of Lucifer seeing Hell as his circus/playground and I really want to see how that's explored in the show lol), and in the process I found out that a lot of his design comes from that. If you look up ringmaster costumes/attire you can see a lot of elements that are clear inspirations for his clothes.

Since I found that to be enough, for this design I chose to mostly give his clothes more details and make the proportions more realistic (something I did with every character).

Sadly I don't have as much to say about Alastor other than my starting point for him was Willy Wonka... XD His smile and the coat are the most challenging parts about the design I think. The smile in particular because it is very unrealistic to have such a wide ear-to-ear smile like he sports all the time, so I had to tone it down a bit and finding the balance is hard. The hair and ears were quite fun, I went for a very messy look because I think it helps sell the scary vibe - if he's too posh and clean his aesthetic starts to look a little ridiculous which is not what we're going for.

Otherwise Alastor was quite the smooth sailing. I really really love drawing him and I love the end result.