#skulduggery himself

Skulduggery Pleasant - 256fes Challenge

Every time I do this challenge I realize 256 triangles (for reference the last proper character I did had over 6k) is not enough, and yet I somehow end up doing this challenge about every two years any way. This time I couldn't even cheat with a skirt bc I was using a pre-established character RIP-

Another retro game mock-up bc... I still really want an SP game. This time I put in more of an effort to match the vibes of the early SP books instead of going down the chibi route like I did with Nefarian.

Done in Blender and Clip Studio Paint. The Skul for the icon is from the OG book 2 cover. The fire animation was done in Pixel Composer. And used the mosaic filter to pixelate the texture and make it more retro looking.

You may wonder why I did this, eventho I don't really like Skul as a character. Well, I got really inspired by this artwork by Lyadrielle, lost motivation half-way in, then finished it due to the sunken-cost fallacy and here we are.

Turn Around + Wireframe:

Previous 256fes Challenges I did:

Goth Girl (2020)

Fairy Girl (2022)

EDIT: Here is the cover I used for the pose reference btw!

“Can't hold your shit, hold your tongue, you got to go Should you choose to react like an imbecile You'll in turn be treated so”

-“Remedy” Pucifer

Headcanon:

Serpine hated Skulduggery because everything seemed to come so easy to him. Despite being a complete asshole he had friends, family, a wife and a child who all loved him dearly. His magic came naturnally and it was powerful. He was a natural leader and a naturnal fighter. People followed him, were eager to make him proud, to gain his acceptance. And in Serpine’s eyes he deserved none of it. Afterall, why should Skulduggery, that worthless heathen bastard, have an easy life where all he could dream of simply fell into his lap without any effort when Serpine had to work his hands bloody for all he had?

((more headcanons including Mevolent, Vile and Nye beneath the cut beneath the cut))