First sketch of the new year.
Benjamin Rivers
Personal blog of game developer and co-founder of indie video game studio BancyCo.
Personal blog of game developer and co-founder of indie video game studio BancyCo.
First sketch of the new year.
It’s Alucard from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night! This is the second piece in this series, after my Maria Renard illustration. I wanted to convey that classic vampire smouldering loneliness — and those beautiful locks!
Happy Spooktober! 🦇🌕 It’s my favourite time of the year, so here’s a vampire lady revelling in the moonlight to show how much I love the season. I had a lot of fun applying colour to this and getting the moonlight glow.
Colour illustration of Maria Renard from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. I wanted a more challenging camera angle, and to include one her animals. I went back and forth on how much detail to put into the castle background; in the end I decide to focus on the character. This was super fun to draw!
You can watch a timelapse of this drawing on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.
Reading Time, 2024. New inked and toned illustration. All of the screentone is a single pattern, but I wanted to play with its application to see how much lighting I could get out of it. ✨ It’s tempting to add lots of effects or different layers, but how much can I do with just black, white, and one tone pattern?