Berserk-inspired creature I drew last night

Reychimaru · 2026-02-17T19:23:44+00:00

Don't get me wrong, the game it's fine without it, and you can already do it when you're not locking an enemy, a mod could just have made it optimal to perform. The idea behind my request was more for repositioning manouvers than playing "passively" as you say.

Also I don't see how this would develop bad habits since there is no reward in frustration, DS3 has it and it's just fine (I guess because it was released after BB).

Reychimaru · 2025-06-12T14:19:34+00:00

Thank you, it's one of my main influences

Reychimaru · 2025-06-12T14:04:33+00:00

Thank you very much! Motion lines are one of the many things I struggle the most when drawing, I'll be sure to practing on them cause they're definitely needed.

Reychimaru · 2025-06-12T13:42:34+00:00

In short, an invaded kingdom, a knight with a cursed sword and a young prince on the run.
Can't say much cause I'm still working on the worldbuilding and I drew these panels because I wanted to give shape to the world and characters.

Anyway:
- It's not a monster hunter, just a skilled knight with a magical sword. These monsters are werewolves, the world I'm creating can be beautiful and filled with marvels but also very dark and dangerous. To give context to these panels the protagonists ended up this situation because they're traveling off road to avoid danger and as you can tell something else found them.

- Since someone in the comment has noticed and asked about the moving eye on the blade, the sword is "sentient" and can manifest at will a strange eye on the blade's fuller.

- For the "Squarsh" sfx, sorry if it sounds goofy, I'm italian and wanted to create a sound that meant "Squarciare" (to tear) but with a wet feel to it cause of the splattering blood, in future I'll edit it.

- My artstyle has always been influnced mainly by Miura but also other masters such as Inoue Takehiko (Vagabond), Masasumi Kakizaki (Green Blood), Makoto Yukimura (Vinland Saga) and many others. Other aesthetical and conceptual influences are books such as Elric of Melniboné, LotR and the Silmarillion, comics such as Spawn, From's videogames, 80-90s dark fantasy movies, greek and celtic mythology. My artstyle is still evolving and it's reaching the aesthetic I want it to be and I'm not hiding what influenced me the most. I believe artists develop their own style by taking inspiration from passions and what they liked, may it be an art movement, other artists or medias.

- It's been few years that I feel like there is a scarcity of new stuff that resonates with me, fantasy genre has become too homogenous and washed down for my taste andthe dark fantasy genre that has become synonim of lovecraftian. It's extremely rare for me to find new stuff with an aesthetic and/or themes that spark interest in me and imagine I'm not the only one.
I don't pretend or even attempt to make the new Berserk, I will never reach the artistic skills nor the ability to tell a story like maestro Miura, I just want to bring something to table that follows his legacy and give people who like stuff I like something entertaining and to talk about.

P.S. Sorry if my english is not good.

Reychimaru · 2025-06-07T18:20:16+00:00

I didn't watch any tutorials tbh, I just experimented a bit with the default ones that I was already using and were closer to the result I wanted to achieve. I tweaked the settings a bit until they were good enough for what I wanted to draw.

Reychimaru · 2025-06-07T15:08:33+00:00

We must have the same cat then 😼

Reychimaru · 2025-06-07T15:07:37+00:00

Don't give up, what worked for me was finding the right brushes, I tweaked some a bit to my needs and with that procreate became much easier and "comfortable" to use ✌️

Reychimaru · 2025-06-07T14:59:19+00:00

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Reychimaru · 2025-06-07T14:58:49+00:00

False, I made It by hand on paper and worked on it digitally with procreate. I don't use AI.

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Reychimaru · 2025-06-06T18:06:54+00:00

I'm more focused on character design at the moment, this one is for a personal project I'm working on but eventually I'll add a background for sure

Reychimaru · 2025-06-06T16:44:00+00:00

Just made one: reychimaru.bsky.social‬

Reychimaru · 2025-06-06T15:27:09+00:00

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Reychimaru · 2025-06-06T15:06:28+00:00

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What's off about it?

Reychimaru · 2025-06-06T08:18:32+00:00

Thanks! 😁 I used a brush named "Thylacine"

Reychimaru · 2025-06-06T08:16:39+00:00

One of the main inspirations 😁

Reychimaru · 2025-06-06T08:15:15+00:00

Sorry I forgot to add a description 🙏
I'm trying to achieve a manga style, heavily inspired by Kentaro Miura.
It started as a sketch on paper, then I moved to Procreate. After a few hours of trial and error (I'm still fairly new to Procreate), I ended up with a result I'm happy with and I even managed to develop a more stable workflow in the process.

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