#oringal characters

Recently i found some old concept art of Wicked Blood, not only it's nostalgic for me seeing the early stages but I though it be intresting to go into the process with how I create my characters for my titles as of 2023;

Firstly I start with experimenting with the early desgins (the pictures from the very top), righ here is an unfished sketch of one of regina's early desgins, and a scraped tshirt desgin for Leslie inspired by Fresh Prince of Bel Air (I scrapped it cause it made his desgin too busy).

Each character is actually based off an era of fashion; Leslie is 90s arcade fashion, Regine is 70s fashion, Joaquin is a mixture of 1920s mardi gras/subtle refrences to African voodoo, And Roman is 60s hippies fashion with the same African refrences as Joaquin to have matching desgins.

then I come up with draft titles/names, I basically just throw any names at the wall and sticks, or see which title fits most with the plot and themes.

then lastly I make finalized desgins, make some small changes, and even make the finalized logo desgin too

Finalized design here!! 🔮

Fun Fact: a while ago, the Wicked Blood peeps were originally Thafnine characters in a AU i use to do when i was in the thaf community called Shadowverse;

ngl i get nostalgic memories looking at all the Shadowverse art i did, i also made other ocs and headcanons for the community. but that's a whole other story.