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

[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]

[michaelmuellerart]

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.

[mr_dessin]

What a character !
So nice body language, weapons, armor and cloak !

Just noticed I added you few days ago on DeviantArt ^^

[michaelmuellerart]

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.

[brandoncrampton1]

Really awesome design! really like the detail in the gauntlet ^-^

[michaelmuellerart]

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

[rgdraw]

Looks pretty cool so far!
Can't wait to see more, good luck for the contest and have fun

[mr_dessin]

You're wlecome and thanks a lot for the kind words...I'm just not sure if I deserve much praises haha (I mean your work is 1000 times better than mine ^^')

Although I sure really do enjoy your kind words
Thank you very much !

[michaelmuellerart]

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.

[sanguine]

Those weapons are sick!! He must be REALLY badass if the grip is made of thorns!! lol

[mr_dessin]

So many details wow !
Epic blades.

@sanguine Maybe his gauntlet protect him from thorns ? Or that's some kind of tricks for this vampire...?

[michaelmuellerart]

@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

[MODOF]

YAY. someone else thinks about story and function as well. im so glad to know im not alone. awesome concepts, by the way! i cant wait to see the final result!

by the way, including that dracula quote is mad classy dude. good stuff. <3 <3 <3

[michaelmuellerart]

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.

[michaelmuellerart]

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.

[mr_dessin]

All look pretty good to me...despite one little thing; is he Batman brother ?
I know the insigna is a bit different, but from far we could mistaken haha
(sorry for the comment, but I had to say it ^^')

Good luck for polishing everything, it's a very fierce character with much presence !
And really badass armor !

Oh and...are you going to give him some wings ?
Just an idea like that !

[rgdraw]

Looks so badass! Great work!

[sanguine]

Ugh he's so awesome. I can't wait to see him colored!

[michaelmuellerart]

@mr_dessin lol yeah I definitely put a couple nods to batman in there, which I may tone down a little we'll see. And yeah the initial sketch had these some wings that I plan to bring back into this, hopefully.

@rgdraw @sanguine Thank you both!

[rgdraw]

You're welcome!
Keep up the great work !