Lady Gunshot Wound / YAKUZA

Yakuza Gynoid.

This is the most fun I've had with a character design in a long time; attempting to make a sadistic killing machine that is convincingly confined to a human disguise. The tattoos are mostly modified pieces of art from a few sources: the ero-guro work of Suehiro Maruo, a panel from Junji Ito's Uzumaki and the much older The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife by Hokusai; an early example of shokushu goukan... 'tentacle rape'.

Reviving some environment concepts, working on a couple of character-based pieces.

This week in Designer Bruises: royalty and other miscreants.