ART WAR 3 | 2D | Villains | Ichor | michaelmuellerart

Name: Mike Mueller
Email: MichaelMuellerArt@gmail.com
Website: http://mikemuellerart.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mike.mueller.art/
ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/mikkelmulr

Character - Ichor "The Bloodletter"
Role - Villain

Description - Ichor's power comes from the manipulation of blood as a weapon. He carries two unique swords, Thorn and Ravenclaw. Thorn is lined with dozens of razor sharp rose thorns that serves to spill the wielder's blood, so that the battlefield is never dry of it. Ravenclaw is a series of spikes and a deadly crimson blade that serves one purpose, to spill the blood of anything and everything so that Ichor may revel in it.

The concept effectively came about from the quotes "I will rise from my own death - To avenge her death with all the powers of darkness", "The blood is the life" from Bram Stoker's Dracula. Without overtly making him a simple vampire that loves blood, I wanted him to be almost obsessed with it, and tying it directly to his powers.

[Final Submissions]

[Last minute edit for file size, phew]

Current phase of my concept, still have a few things I want to alter a little bit to make things flow a little more naturally, but we'll see how things evolve.

Ichor - concepts.jpg1374x1099 436 KB

Thanks so much, I'm glad you dig it. I'm pretty excited to keep working away at it myself.

I just checked out your work, tons of awesome stuff there, I'll be sure to follow you back.

Thanks! Yeah I tend to go a little nuts with little filigree one stuff like that now'a days, it's a great way to break your wrist

Thank everyone for the kind words, getting me excited to keep working on this.

Here is the fleshed and finished weapons concept sheet.

Ichor carries two swords, Thorn and Ravenclaw, each very distinct from another both in style and function.

Ichor - weapons - concepts.jpg2198x1758 1.85 MB

@sanguine @mr_dessin puts on nerd hat
The way Ichor's "super power" work is through manipulation of blood as a weapon. Thorn's primary use is to spill the wielder's blood, hence the thorns along the handle. And Ravenclaw has sharp points all over to spill enemy blood. He's basically a masochist lol

haha thanks so much, I'm glad you dig it too. I love adding that kind of stuff to my work, it's half the fun.

Here is my nightly update, currently working on the turn around, refining and tightening up the concept as a whole. This one is still pretty rough, but a lot of it is there to stay. Looking forward to polishing this and getting to work on the actual illustration.

Character sheet - phase1.jpg2467x3077 1.94 MB