Here are a few early character designs for Crimson Candle; they are rather stock looking characters for now, but hopefully they’ll become more dimensional as I keep on developing them and the story in which they take place. But, lately, they’ve become a good excuse to design better custom brushes in Photoshop and to try and mimic something in between watercolor and washes.

 

So far I’m pretty happy with the outcome, so let’s what I else I can conjure within this concept, though next time, I’ll shift gears a bit and explore some characters and illustrations on my other idea, with a rather steampunk tone…