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Samael Jigoku
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Independent pro. + hobbyist artist, writer, poet. Horror game aficionado.
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A blossom in the cradle of the moon's eye.
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Choujiro Kanta, from my horror project 'The Great Katabasis'.
An affable, cultured antagonist who runs a once-luxurious, haunted hotel, and has a hobby of trying strange foods. He is modeled and named after the folktale 'Choujiro the Horse-Eater'.
#oc #ocart #characterart #horrorart
Black and white portrait drawing of a man with dark eyes and long, spiraling curly hair. He wears a charm and bead necklace and a kimono with a mountain and ocean pattern on it.
August 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Little drawing of the Alekso Bros., from my horror project 'The Great Katabasis', who run a disturbed family carnival. In the main plot they are antagonists, but could easily star in their own story.
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Stylized drawing of three characters. Top left is a man wearing a vest and striped shirt. Central is a man with wild long hair wearing bone and coin jewelry and an old-fashioned blouse. Bottom right is a man with long black hair wearing a showman-esque outfit decorated in bones and buttons.
August 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Rotzey Alekso, from my project 'The Great Katabasis' - an unstable man with cannibal tendencies who makes the grotesque "food" for his brothers' traveling carnival.
He is the youngest Alekso Bro., and his real name is Rothan.
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Black and white drawing of a man with wild, messy long dark hair, wearing a bandanna, and jewelry of bones and coins. He wears an open, old-fashioned blouse.
August 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Jacqui Alekso, a talented dark magician who runs a twisted traveling carnival with his brothers, from my horror project 'The Great Katabasis'. He is the middle and sanest Alekso Bro., and the nightmarish creature "staff" of the carnival are likely his making.
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Black and white drawing of a man with curly hair, who is wearing a striped shirt and patterned vest, and a necklace of coins.
August 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Marny Alekso, a criminal magician and showman for a twisted traveling carnival, from my horror project 'The Great Katabasis'. He is the eldest of the three Alekso Bros.
From a series of portraits I'm making for general use.
#ocart #characterart #oc #horrorart
Black and white portrait of a man wearing heavy eyeshadow with chin-length black hair. He wears a carnival showman's uniform with large buttons and decorations made of bones and coins.
July 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Wounds and paranoia - Diavolo.
#jjba #jojosbizarreadventure #jojo #goldenwind #ジョジョの奇妙な冒険
Black and white drawing of the character Diavolo from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, a man with long, oddly speckled hair and hair "horns". He looks angry or shocked. His hands have long, claw-like nails and drip with blood. A beam of eyes is in the backdrop.
July 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Old Unita Speciale pop art I can't remember if I posted here.
#jojosbizarreadventure #jjba #jojo #goldenwind #ジョジョの奇妙な冒険
Colourful pop art drawing of characters from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5. The text at the back reads "L'Unita Speciale". Left to right, the top row is Cioccolata, Diavolo and Doppio. Center left is Secco. Bottom row is Carne, Tiziano and Squalo.
July 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Concept sketch of the villain character, Choujiro Kanta, from my horror project 'The Great Katabasis'. He is named and modeled after the folktale of Shio no Choujiro.
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Black and white ink drawing of a man with thick eyebrows and long curly hair. He is wearing a bead necklace and a robe with mountain, cloud and monster motifs on it. He holds in his hand a giant insect, possibly a cricket, half-eaten and impaled on a fork or chopstick.
July 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Sketch of the villain character, Kamanosuke, from 'The Great Katabasis', a horror project I've been working on. This is playing around with an alternate outfit. Most of the cast have 'icons' for their look, but not a decided uniform yet.
#ocart #oc #horrorart #inkart #characterart
Black and white ink drawing of a man with dark hair and vampire fangs. He wears a shirt with a pattern that resembles lychees or flowers, and has a sailor collar and pentagram symbol on the arm. There is a winking, cartoony ghost that resembles a word balloon, and has blood around its mouth and a hat, to the man's side.
July 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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The first few 'serious' pieces from 'The Great Katabasis'. A short comic to get back into comic-making and a piece featuring the villain Kamanosuke. Obviously very much still in framework stages, though the big piece is not far from done.
A photo of a large notebook with a horror drawing and framework for a comic on it.
July 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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The four big bads of 'The Great Katabasis'. In a softer style than usual!
They are the figureheads of a strange cult-like mob called the Lodge of the Centipede. Left to right is Carmine Marciel, Glisteryde, the Tongue-Slitter, and Gin Shi.
#ocart #oc #horrorart #characterart
Cartoon drawing of four people - left to right, a man with long hair holding a shrieking ghost and a pair of chopsticks, a light-haired man wearing clothes that appear made of skin, with a centipede circling his hair, a diseased-looking man with bacteria floating about his head and holding a pair of meathooks, and an older woman with butterfly ribbons in her hair and an ogre-like face and claws, smoking a cigarette.
July 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Jennifer - Rule of Rose. Completion of an old drawing, saving it from the lost pile. It's been awhile.
#ruleofrose #horrorgames #fanart #oniongames
Cartoon drawing of Jennifer from Rule of Rose - a woman in a green dress with brown hair in a bun, who is tangled and caught in roses, which have rope-like vines. The backdrop is light brown, old-looking watercolour.
July 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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A red dream as seen through a ghost's stolen eyes.
These are two characters from 'The Great Katabasis', the vampiric witch Gin Shi and her protégée Kamanosuke.
#horrorart #characterart #ocart #horror
A painting of a man in an occult-themed outfit, left, and an older woman in a kimono with an ogre-like appearance, right. The man is wearing a military hat and the woman is holding a martini glass with human eyeballs floating in it. The man is holding a similar eyeball in his hand. Behind them are red clouds with a creepy, embryo-like creature floating within them.
July 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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'Hemoglobin Towncar' - A night on the town.
#digitalart #art #horrorart
A colourful, psychedelic painting of a small, frog-like creature riding a strange car through a neon-lit city. The 'car' appears to be made of human organs, eyeballs and organic muscle.
July 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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'Man believes himself master of species, but disease knows better!'
Concept of the Tongue-Slitter, one of the main antagonists of my horror project, 'The Great Katabasis'. The 4 big villains represent the Four Horsemen - you can likely guess which one he is.
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Black and white horror drawing of a man holding a heavily diseased, rotting severed head with stringy hair and visceral entrails coming out of the neck area. The man has oily black hair and is wearing a black leather apron and belt with human tongues hooked around it. He holds a bloodied butcher knife in his right hand, and his eyes and skin appear diseased. He wears clown-like black lipstick or face paint. Bacteria and bubbles of disease float around his head like a crown and in the air around him.
July 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Frederic + Evalesco, two main characters from a slice-of-life, dark fantasy story I wanted to write that takes place in a bizarre, haunted school over four seasons.
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A drawing of two boys. The one on the left is wearing glasses and has dark brown hair. He is wearing a red and orange striped sweater and knee-length pants, and orange sneakers. The boy on the right has black hair, and is wearing a green academic sweater with a tie and dress shirt underneath, brown shorts and brown dress shoes with long black socks. The boy with glasses has his right hand held out, sort of like a friendly wave.
July 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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The main villain and his former best friend, Dorian (left), from my horror project 'Good Night, Tortureland'. This is many decades before the story, when they were both still human, before becoming two very different types of monsters.
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Black and white drawing of two men against a backdrop of trees. The man on the left has light hair and is wearing a collared shirt with floral patterns on the front and suspenders. The man on the right has black hair and is wearing an elaborately patterned vest and black shirt with flower and triangular patterns.
July 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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If you see this, quote post with the last 4 games you played.
I made a huge set of my own characters as Miis for Miitopia, horrors beyond man's comprehension that I'm going to have to post sometime.
Cover art of the game Miitopia. Cover art of the game Mother 1. Cover art of the game Rule of Rose. Mother 3 cover art.
July 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Cursed Amphora. A minor enemy from my horror project 'Good Night, Tortureland'. He would be found in the Museum of Cursed Objects area, because of course he would.
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A black and white drawing of a spiral-patterned monster shaped like a distorted amphora, or vase, that has a single human eye at its center and wiggling, humanoid arms and legs. The text at the bottom right reads 'Cursed Amphora'.
July 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Kasa-obake. A minor enemy design for my horror project. This one is a companion to one of the main villains, Carmine Marciel, and is based on the umbrella yōkai of the same name.
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An ink drawing of a monster that looks like a large paper umbrella, but with strange, human features. It has one humanoid foot that is wearing a sandal, one large, menacing eye and a mouth. The monster is sticking its tongue out. It has a ribbon around its ankle. The text at the bottom left reads "Kasa-obake".
June 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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'One in the Guts' - a monster from my horror project. He has a playful smile, but his hug will crush a human being. He has humanoid bones, but liquid, dark blue flesh, and this drawing shows how he can move his teeth, bones and eyes around at will.
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Ink drawing of a monster with liquid, tar-like flesh, big glaring eyes and a vaguely humanoid shape. This drawing is a concept showing how his eyes and bones can move and retract around his body. The text on left says 'eyes float on face freely', and the text on bottom says 'retractable teeth + bones', while pointing to the examples.
June 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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'One From the Clocks'. The main villain from my horror project.
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A black and white ink portrait of a man with dark hair and heavily shadowed eyes. Two tree branches are weaved into his hair, and he wears an elaborate outfit of bones, dot patterns, and striped tentacle-like appendages around the collar. He also wears an apple-shaped brooch
June 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Concept sketch of Julian Chords, a side character from project 'Good Night, Tortureland'. His family suffers a blood curse which makes these fleshy Blood Phantoms appear nightly to torment him.
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Black and white ink portrait of a man with curly dark hair. He has a neck tattoo that resembles the markings for a surgical incision, and wears a shirt that reads 'Sunshine in Hawaii'. All around his shoulders, fleshy, distorted and grotesque ghosts with many eyes cling to him in a tormenting way.
June 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Kanabiel of the Rose - a main antagonist from my horror fairytale project, 'Good Night, Tortureland'.
She is queen of the Indigo - eldritch beings of cruelty, creativity, desire + destruction. This is a more 'comprehensible' form she takes on for followers.
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An ink drawing of an unsettling, humanoid being who somewhat resembles a woman, but her face is skull-like with solid white eyes, and her body is made of an ink-like substance shifting in odd proportions, and tattooed with shifting, tribal-like patterns. She has writhing, dripping tentacle appendages for 'hair' and wears several metallic collar necklaces adorned with roses and jewels.
June 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Jeff and Tony ink doodle. Replaying this series and just wanted to draw something!
#earthbound #mother2 #fanart #motherseries
Ink drawing of Jeff and Tony from the game EarthBound (Mother 2) - two boys in winter outfits reading from a notebook. There is snow and wind behind them and somewhat melted, but cheerful-looking snowmen on the ground.
June 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM