For a while I've been doodling portraits of Bloodborne characters as self-reference - to avoid the sameface, to design unshown characters, to study existing data and whatnot...
I was doodling them as I had the need for them, but recently I realized I've had so many of them piled up that I could share them already! I added some notes and also clarifications (as it is possible to skip some characters depending on the playstyle... or on lacking a PS for that matter....).
It is still not everyone, of course; I am still missing characters like two boss Witches of Hemwick when they were younger, Clocktower patients, the door NPCs (despite having full headcanons for two of them), some cut content names and what not. I hope I'll get to others some other time as I don't like leaving characters out, but I just feel like that's enough for a post!
Again, it is the SELF-reference. Some colors were altered from the data according to how /I/ draw the character (for example the 'greyish red' eyes looking grey or purple on most NPCs that use them, Edgar being more orange-haired than in the data, etc). For the 100% accurate colors, refer to the compilation from this post: ( x )
Bonus:
Special thanks:
Zullie the Witch for dataming all the ingame NPC face data ( x ) ( x )
Sanadsk / Omega Fantasy for adding everything in accessible matter ( x ), and for the corpse models ( x )
Mephistophea who made that wiki ( x ) (their Twitter)
AstralLace for mining Gratia's model specifically ( x ) (it is just a link to their Twitter, I didn't find the Tweet with Gratia but the model they datamined is in fandom wikias. Let me know if you find the exact post though!)
Sinclair Lore (Sophie and Sinclair) for showcasing many models in this video: ( x )
Tokami-Fuko for extracting some models, like Mico's ( x )
Saintmicolash for doing hella research on characters' proper names that was helpful with interpreting several characters ( x ) (this links to my reblog as he no longer has a Tumblr tho. explanation on Gracia (ガラシャ) isn't in the post but he made research on that one too)
@val-of-the-north for lending me two designs and helping with naming several characters
The Cutting Room Floor for finding and archieving cut names ( x )
Val (again), Crow and Fantomette for urging me to draw more of these and post them even though I hesitated
I shouldnt be at the club, I should be standing in front of an abandoned medieval castle, calling out to weary strangers and saying shit like, "Oh, your serendipitous arrival to our cursed land proves you are the prophesied hero, destined for greatness. My, my, what a tragic pity for you!" before cackling and passing out, like a horrible soulsborn npc who dies after the first act and whose clothes you steal without a second thought.
“Only evening and already Yharnam’s streets are brimming with some rotten stench. Unknown if the plague is airborne, but best keep your hands clean. The Yharnamites have begun burning the bodies in the streets.”
Masctire, my circle of symbiosis druid for a Steinhardt's Guide to the Eldritch Hunt 5e campaign. A quiet, eloquently spoken former surgeon who uses politeness and civility to mask suspicious motives and a bloodlust he desperately fights to keep suppressed.
Unfinished concept for a beast Brador. The proportions are all weird, but I REALLY liked the way I envisioned him in my head. The Bloodletter plunged into his stomach was one last attempt to draw the "tainted blood" out of himself, which he knew wouldn't work but tried anyway... now it's forever active.
✨Beasts all over the shop. You’ll be one of them... Sooner or later...✨
Got one more Bloodborne pamphlet in the shop :) I won’t be using this yellowed paper for the spell books coming soon so this is probably the last batch for now .
🤧Sry I don't know how this headcanon should be but I think this man,this meek-looking scholar suits a silenced gun(BlackSky Eye)in some way and an bulletproof umbrella(the shield he holds)
Decided to doodle some height comparison with the main Byrgenwerth scholars! This dabbles on the idea that Micolash and Rom used to have brown eyes, and they became blue after their intro to Kos (or some say Kosm)
Also, I finally grew enough balls to draw Julie accurate to her character data. I already draw all chatracters with ‘bald’ hairstyle with their data color whenever I picture them when they still had hair, so it is only more consistent. She does look better with brown hair I tend to draw her with, though, so... let’s presume she dyes her hair sometimes, okay? Using natural ways like herbs or fruit.