#tomatika

Some of these names are well-known, but there are artists going by nicknames which make them hard to track down. Still, I was interested into finding out whom they all are, so I did my best to try and identify them. Take everything regarding artists going by a nickname with a grain of salt.

Tomatika

She is the lead character designer, and she has illustrated the main group of each tale. Her artworks also have variants that make the characters more expressive during cutscenes. She also illustrated the game cover as well as the promotional artworks of the game.

SK

You can recruit and deploy 12 mercenaries in the game. SK did the art for all of them + the musicians playing in Isapolis, as well as a few guest characters. Despite all the art they've done, they're unfortunately only credited as SK.

Hidari

Illustrator for the Atelier series and for Fire Emblem: Shadows of Valentia, among others. He contributed a single guest art for the game.

NA2

It was a complicated search because they're only credited as "NA2" but I'm confident that NA2 is still their Pixiv username, and that they also go by NA2-A5. Other than this they did art for Chain Chronicle.

Shinichiro Otsuka

Character designer for Re:Zero.

Yuki Hayabusa

They've worked on Cardfight!!Vanguard and Wizardry: Labyrinth of Lost Souls.

Kinu Komada

They've also done book cover illustrations such as the Japanese edition of the Mistborn trilogy.

Shin Takekawa

He's an author who seems to now have a career drawing erotic yuri.

Hironori Takano

He's worked on several Flight-Plan games other than Eternal Poison such as Black/Matrix.

Takeshi Iizuka

He's also a regular at Flight-Plan and has worked on games like Summon Night and Sacred Blaze.

Enomoto

Enomoto is (allegedly) an artist who also goes by the nickname BND. The most art I could find was a single blog (http://enom.blog32.fc2.com/), and a handful of Doujinshi under her second nickname. I'm confident this is her because of the facial proportions, and especially because of how she draws eyelashes.

I actually looked for her everywhere because I liked the art she contributed to the game a lot.

HAMMER

They did the art for the guests pictures above. I would love to know what else they've worked on, but I couldn't find them.

V8

While his work has changed a great deal, I believe this is Nagai Yuya (artist for Grandblue Fantasy Versus, War of the Visions, Valkyrie Elisium).

I liked his work and knew he went by V8turbocharger on Twitter, so I had a little "what if..." moment reading this art credited under the name "V8". This might be a leap, but I still see a similarity in how he draws lips and noses (moreso in his older work).

Mioto Kurachi

Like Takeshi Iizuka, they're also part of other Flight-Plan games crews.

... and this is just for the human character design, since several more artists have worked on the Majin design (including Yasushi Nirasawa who is well-known for a lot of monster/creature illustrations as well as for his work in the Kamen Rider franchise), and several more have worked on all the background art for the stages you can see in-game.

Tomatika did most of the illustrations for Eternal Poison and her beautiful painterly style grants it a unique gothic charm. I fell in love with the artworks for the game which was my main reason for playing it. These are scans from the artbook I cleaned up slightly/colour corrected.

A nice little SRPG related trivia about Tomatika is that she contributed two incredible illustrations to the Tactics Ogre Lover's Voice Fanbook (which is how I discovered her work):

Eternal Poison released in 2008, and the Tactics Ogre Lover's Voice Fanbook was published in 2011, so they're both interesting testimonies of the artist's style at the time.

It's a minigame well-suited for a SRPG and I enjoyed it a lot, but while many of the stages were rather simple, there are 50 of them, and the highest stages are intimidating. It was fairly time-consuming so I considered just giving up on it and looking up the art online, but only one person seems to have completed it and shared the results, and unfortunately the images are in low resolution/quality... So I ended up going back in and committing to the game.

The gallery is an incredible reward though. It contains plenty artworks, sketches, early character design research and background art that aren't present in the artbook (a few can be found in the artbook though). Anyway here are the results. I'll split them in different parts in successive reblogs :

Part 1 (below) Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

Eternal Poison Gallery Part 1