And then we have Dark. So funny story, originally I defined his appearance as ‘having thick eyebrows’. Cause other than that, he was supposed to look like essentially a human version of Wolf. The original concept in Dark’s introduction to the storyline was that they were twins (which we are) but due to the Dreamer process, their souls were linked. So yeah.
I didn’t really draw Dark again until at least a year later, when the twin connection idea had been mostly scrapped. So at this point, Dark had become an actual Dreamer, but we decided to keep the “no-magic” idea. So instead Dark is tech-based, which I had some fun with in this drawing.
Now the next drawing pretty much set Dark’s appearance/outfit for the rest of time. As can be seen by the list, this was supposed to be Dark’s reference sheet, but as with Wolf’s, it’s now old and outdated. For example, he does not have music-based magic. That was added because we couldn’t figure out his third ability, and wanted to try and make him a bit more on level with the rest of the Dreamers, but later on decided it subtracted from his character. The powerful Dreamer part is from the idea that being a Dreamer was an ability in and of itself, which had something to do with creation and stuff. We cancelled that upon reflecting on the original concept of Dreamers.
The next drawing is actually the first appearance of the single lock of hair that’s part of Dark’s hairstyle. In previous drawings, he simply didn’t have any bangs, but we we redid that to add a bit more interest. (the idea came from when the creator kept complaining about how that one lock wouldn’t stay out of his face). This was also from when Dark was still around the same height as Wolf, due to the twin idea (I also got taller since this drawing, so....).
This last one is pretty much his current appearance. He does wear different coloured shirts (similar to Wolf), and the jeans actually fade in colour over time (useful for determining the section of the timeline). But yeah, this is pretty much a drawing of the beginning of Dark’s arc, which I plan to work on throughout drawing everyone else’s stories. The headset does change forms, and he normally wears it as a small bluetooth earpiece.
