Noir character design

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Playing with shapes and lighting. Inspired by the sketches of Piotr Jabłoński. https://www.artstation.com/artist/nicponim

Afro Goth More

Some character sketches for a personal project. A 1940's hard-boiled noir story in a cyberpunk setting. The visual style was inspired by Valentin Demchenko's amazing sketches.

One cup of coffee to ink, one to color. This one's not from the tour, but it's pretty much in the same mode-- it's actually from a discarded digital layout.

Illustration,Character Design,Procreate

A collection of concept art for Empire of Sin's hireable gangsters and NPCs. On this project while mainly responsible for the art direction, my day to day tasks also involved leading and creating a lot of the concept art for the game. Here are a few of the characters for Empire of Sin I concepted. Empire of Sin, developed by Romero Games and published by Paradox Interactive. https://www.artstation.com/romerogames

The Puttanesca (formerly Putanesca) are a bloodline of the Hecata, formerly being one of the minor families of the vampiric clan Giovanni. The Puttanesca's very name translates as "of the whore"; they are a Sicilian family of low-rent criminals, pimps, and thugs with ties to the Mafia that the Giovanni acquired in the 1660s to do the family's "dirty work". Largely ignorant of necromancy, the average Puttanesca has a temper that would even put a Brujah to shame. Not the type to forgive and…

Quick color sketches focusing on shape and minimal mark making.