part of the reason i'm fussing around with blender is i think gabby would look really really cool in a psx style, like he'd play to its strengths. big chunky design with pretty simple shapes, and anything complicated like his organs i can paint. has a head that doesn't require any kind of complex emotion and that grody 90s goth grease to him.

i think it'd be really fun to make him, rig him up and try and play around with how subtle i can make him look. plus it'd help hugely for any comics i do since i can pose his head for reference. win win!

i'll leave the horrifying specifics to your imagination! but what i can say is that, before his body started changing under the sheer weight of his BIOMASSE, gabby looked like an average guy in his 40s. so to answer your question: what you'd expect, but maybe not how you'd expect it

just by the by, part of why he looks like that (and this is just from a design perspective, not anything inside the story) is that i've noticed in a lot of stories, monstrous/nonhuman protagonists are given a lot of appealing features (big eyes, etc) or are just human being with horns or a tail. not to knock that, of course, but it's not the sort of thing i like doing. whatever gabriel looked like before we met him, he doesn't look like that now, and he can't ever look like it again. i think it'll be a fun challenge to make him completely unable to emote through his face, but still try to make him charismatic and compelling! ideally, you will weep for this meat muppet

noodling around with pixel art. doing stuff i don't have a lot of experience in is fun, stops me getting too caught in details

this is morven, the goth milf gabby fumbled. she was super into him being a horrible meat monster, and he botched it because he 'didn't like' 'committing murder' 'whenever she asked'. this eats at him. this kills him every day

perspective practice with my boy

how the hell did kim jung gi do this. was he a wizard

Gabriel Hartnett

Been plugging away at BIOMASSE. Character sheets are for my own reference, but I thought it'd be fun to share.

I think there's something really funny about the protagonist being such a Noir Guy that the lighting follows him around and weirds out the people around him. Plain-text character bio under the cut.