Introducing… Cryptohuntress!

Yep, some new stuff; that is, a full promotional piece for my current webcomic project, Cryptohuntress. Perhaps a print in the near future?

This is something I don’t ordinarily do. That is, make my first finished rendition on a project a full illustration. Typically I just kick out a bunch of 3/4 character design sheets and maybe the odd head detail, but nothing this time consuming or featured. I thought it important to do this first, though, for various reasons:

• To establish a uniform look and feel, especially typographically; this whole project is inspired by a kind of fantastical Art Deco.
• To show myself that it’s worth it employ this much polish on a personal project.
• To give a powerful first impression, since I’ve been out of the loop so long.

Cryptohuntress has been swimming around in my head for a couple years now. It started off as a sort of joke during a time where I was heavily into HP Lovecraft; I did a small illustration of a victorianesque femme fatale with a tommy gun and her foot on a severed monster’s head, and that’s basically where it ended. Since then, the idea just gathered momentum – after all, it involved something I was best at drawing, and that’s women!

I don’t want to go into too much detail about the concept, though it’s safe to say that it’s a sort of an eldritch-James Bond in an alternate 1930′s thing.

Only problem I have right now is deciding on format. I could go totally authentic for the era and do black-and-white or sepia, but in the end, these may just be print or cover choices; I’ll probably be doing the comic itself as linework with limited shading, on some funky ‘old papery’ stock to give it a cool texture. I’ll have to play around some more… Either way, the print looks cool in a bunch of different styles.