been working on making a merchandise mascot, or what ever the term is when an Original Character is turned into stickers and vinyl figures. One character I know would help determine the look of the characters is their lead member- Lucy: Princess of Darkness
Just been bouncing around with this project trying to find something that makes her unique and different from my other characters and projects. And even though I don't plan to make Lucy here over sexualized, but I do what I can to make her appealing; the only hard part is what I find sexy usually doesn't stick for everyone, and I like short hair.
And before people make stapled opinions about these designs here, I need to state that these aren't even near the final design. I plan to make these characters more toony while retaining a creepy edge to them. For all I know, Lucy will have an even bigger head
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In the world of an artist, even we lose children...
so concept-2 is missing and didn't think about taking a picture of her before I lost her
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Later decided to give her bull/bovine horns, which frankly make her more demonic.
Also I already have 3 characters with ram or goat horns, and need the variety
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Sure some would complain about cheesecake, but being the devil herself* she can choose how people see her, and frankly gives no weakness and is all dark and powerful... Think Jessica Rabbit, but hungry for souls and only sees the living as a buffet
On the same side, I need to think of a name for my characters as a group. Besides Lucy, the other 7 (8 total) are based around the deadly sins. The idea being inspired from the day I finally hit the big leagues and people started hate groups about me. Yay! The concept being that no matter how much you hate me and wish for me to die, I am who I am and if I don't want to change that then you either can suck it up or live miserably with my existence... Born to be Damned!!
The only characters I've already started working on are Pride, Envy and Wrath. Others will come along, but the one thing I know I will struggle with is Lust; would I do the scariest things and Rocky Horror the character or look for a PG-13 appropriate design? The idea is to let these be characters that can appeal to most ages and both genders, and probably see if I can sell them in collection stores like Hastings, FYE, Gray Whale (Utahn business) and other alternatives... Hot Topic...
So far my only plan is to start with Prints, stickers and decals. Would have to see if I can even get them popular enough to sell as Vinyl figures
This will be part one, more to come with progress and presentation
Art by
Matt "Wretneck" Billingsley ©2015
Lucy created and owned by Matt "Wretneck" Billingsley
sorry for being late on this post
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