the earliest color reference for kara. this is back when we were solely working in the 1890s and the big twist was going to be kara murdering a nobleman at a ball and kicking off a revolution, so the dress was for that.

some early tests for kara's god tier. hers really hasn't changed much since the start.

miscellaneous stuff.

a funny concept after we decided to kill kara where she would just bully damien from beyond the grave

kara's final god tier, front and back

some post-rework things

part of what was originally meant to be a set of six that i never finished.

kara's most recent design, done by jade.

the first colored digital piece of damien.

damien fucking dies

damien and cain fighting, done by onyx. i thought

damien's masquerade ball concept. not bad, just kinda boring?

damien's ascension, featuring the earliest version of him presession, denoted by his shirt symbol being both different AND red.

some random stuff.

several of the first pass of his god tier.

non-canon, done for fun. i think it was supposed to be butterscotch? idk it's been a while.

a stained glass test. entry/god tier.

the biggest thing i ever did with the first pass. still kinda holds up

old habits die hard. presession damien has also been updated by this point, it's a lot more punk-inspired.

another trickster drawing, but this time it's meant to be scary. i think the effect worked, but i can't help but only see the anatomical errors now.

an attempt at an alternate outfit (and something i looked at for an attempt at making his outfit more interesting). this one actually has a speedpaint, linked here.

the second and final pass of damien's god tier.

the first thing of damien i ever did in krita. once again, old habits die hard.

the first ever damien with long hair, and the earliest precursor to his current design

the last thing i ever drew for 2023.

there's a matching one to this, but it's completely unrelated to the project.

the two last damiens before his hair got long. one was an expression test on the same canvas as cain's, the other was from the painted god series.

AND THERE IT IS. long haired damien. i think it's a significant improvement silhouette-wise.

it gets chopped off to a degree in the 1980s, but part of me is tempted to bring it back.

what would happen if an ascension didn't work somehow. i ended up doing some extra ghosts on top of it.

damien's actual entry. every once in a while i forget i saw trapped him.

inspired by the rejected song radiohead made for Spectre (2015). not the greatest but yknow.

some notes, trying to bring in aspects of the other characters into his design.

this is in a drop-down because my pc is in the office and i don't want my mom to see it while i'm going through and making sure nothing's broken

done while studying biology for a placement test for college. sort of self-explanatory.

mc's first design for june. EXTREMELY early.

another early one, establishing the relationship between june and damien.

same as the other three-color ones.

my first test with a set of jane austen dip pens i got on sale at a closing barnes & noble.

some pose/stylization tests for june's god tier.

slightly angsty thing using lyrics from a song by the crane wives.

kind of a shitposty doodle, june being so tall she has to basically kneel to not bonk her head on every doorframe she goes through.

june's entry to that portrait series i was doing.

june's final god tier design, with and without the cape.

the most recent june drawing, done by mc.

some shitposts onyx did at the very start of the project.

another three-color for cromwell.

early attempts at a coherent design for cromwell, including an initial first attempt at his god tier.

a full first pass of cromwell's god tier.

random watercolor doodle.

the quintessential cromwell i've ever drawn and his god tier with the mask up.

cromwell fucking dies

miscellaneous doodles onyx did of cromwell somewhere near the death of the project

furby fear, spawned from an inside joke with cain.

cromwell's final god tier.

a larger, fancier version of cromwell's god tier, updated to have the new hair.

part of that masquerade concept, clem's design for that. really proud of the mask.

another three-color random doodle.

the first pass of her god tier. it doesn't change a lot, but got a little work.

drawn during a blackout.

another pair of tests: clem's god tier and weapon versatility.

clem's final god tier.

clem's final civilian design for the 1880s.

the majority of these are by onyx, since cain is his beloathed son.

not the first cain drawing EVER, but the first colored one i did. it's what solidified his color palette for the longest time.

another one of those masquerade concepts. the symmetry tool is a godsend and i'm glad this was a one-off concept doodle because jesus FUCK that mask looks super annoying to draw over and over

some really early thief-era stuff. can't have been more than a month in. a simple initial sketch and another three-color thing.

one of onyx's early color drawings of this smug little shit.

cain's ascension, as drawn by onyx (and inspired by mine of damien's). the method has changed over time, but the scar has never moved.

two paintings by onyx either of cain's morgue or inside it, with cain somewhere in the background.

cain being knocked off a ledge by his brother (by onyx). this is a major story element and the location has changed, but the idea has also remained the same.

onyx's body diagram of cain circa 2022.

cain as that one tmbg album art (by onyx).

a side portrait by onyx. abeline has a matching one, but that's in the misc menu.

WHERE'S

YOUR

HEAD

AT

WHERE'S YOUR HEAD AT

WHERE'S YOUR HEAD AT

a fully colored frame in an animatic onyx did. i don't remember what exactly it was for, might've been for a class, but it's pretty cool and worth adding in.

i'm just gonna cluster all the ones i added because i thought they were cool. the time clone thing is a little relevant since that's something he can do, but like. cool shit

Achievement Unlock: It's Rewind Time - Reverse time on 100 corpses (by onyx)

another updated ref sheet by onyx. this is where what would later become albinism comes in.

cain dies in a glue trap (by onyx)

cain's final god tier, front and back.

cain right before the session started, including him after killing his family.

cain making furbies for his friends (by onyx).

an expression practice thing i did using cain as a model.

cain's sketch for that portrait series i never finished.

my reference for cain, balancing him out to three dominant colors.

the first damien and kara ever, likely dating back to the same night jade pitched the idea.

a really early test for presession june and damien (probably from around a month in). the postsession is a bit later, but it's still pretty damn early as it features both first passes of their god tiers.

early test for damien's and cromwell's relationship. them having dated in the past wasn't solidified yet, but them hating each other was.

joke based off a quote shitpost.

made for a writing thing. internally titled "the gang gets SBURB PTSD."

two early things, back when clemwell was the intended endgame. i think their relationship was pretty cute back in the golden days, but started to feel kinda off or boring as clem was left in the dust developmentally, then unbearably so once cromwell was scrapped.

the boys with their first pass god tiers

mean girls joke. cannot elaborate further, that's all it is.

internally named "the gang ascends," drawn by onyx. i'm considering finishing it, tbh.

another damewell thing. a shitpost while trying to figure out why they hated each other.

a somewhat late shitpost, definitely post-golden age but not fully into the constant fighting yet. still pretty silly.

so fun fact: we actually have a survival roleplay server alongside the main build server! it still exists and was made for shits and giggles, though it's gone through four or five resets.

more damewell. kinda self-explanatory.

a second pass at presession june and damien, after their presession situation was made a little more solid.

what i thought was the funniest of a series of ironic t-shirt drawings.

so here is where we get a VERY significant jump in time, roughly two whole years! the project had already been dead by this point, and this was when i'd started my own stuff and gotten sugar and jade involved with the completely adult-oriented tone. this was a body type test for the boys and sort of an updated scar diagram (of which i've had to make at least three for damien. he has so many). it's nice being able to see so much improvement over time and that i've been able to actually differentiate the boys a lot more.

also from the start of the revival, attempts at reworking damien's and cain's design. i felt they were lacking and needed a little work, like stabilizing cain's palette and adding some extra accoutrements to damien so he felt a little more steampunk.

for fun. there's a version that uses both their usual color paletttes, but i liked this one way more.

something i wanted to do with june and damien was use similar motifs/shapes to show visually that their aspects are a pair, and one way that came out was in hair texture. i'm especially fond of june's hair and how it came out :)

kinda self-explanatory and based off an actual thing my mom said. i'm still not sure how i want damien's mom to look and thought her being really hot would be funny.

drawn partially as a joke while watching the interview with the vampire reboot.

june and damien being STEM besties.

looks like 2023, maybe really early 2024? cain and damien being siblings.

a shrine landscape thing i did early into the project's run, using the church from the build server as my reference.

damien's cat. i love her so much.

abeline, both the matching portrait to cain's and in cain's lab.

two attempts at a design for rose. she's existed for 3 years and we still have no coherent design.