Hey guys, today I want to talk about wraiths... again. I actually talked about them before here, but I read over my post and thought maybe it was too confusing so I'm redoing the tutorial. So what is a wraith? They're basically the evil ghosts from dark fantasy you see appearing as magical undead creatures covered in tattered robes, often times floating around. Here are some of my favorite examples.
Let's try something simple for now. Let's draw a tattered robe humanoid figure except minus the legs. From prior experience I'm sure 32x32px is all we need to convey this.
So that's a start, now lets add a little lighting. Also pick a highlight color and shift it slightly towards green so you get this blue/green spooky color combination.
Now my favorite ghost face is literally "Ghostface" from the Scream movie series so I will add something similar for his face.
This is great, but wouldn't it be cool to give him some gear? How about some lights? We can give him candles or lanterns. When we do this, we will have to re-render the lighting so that the light is coming from our new light sources.
Another thing we can try out are weapons. Some that come to mind are daggers or scythes but you can try swords or even axes if you want, it doesn't matter.
So those are some pretty cool iterations. I also have more that I have done in the past just to throw out ideas. They can have shields, spells, glowy hands, horns. Whatever you do, please, make them glow. Glows are awesome and catch viewers eyes in my opinion. Oh forgot to mention, these ones are standing rather than hovering and they're conjuring out of the ground so that's why you see fog here.
I also have these guys from the Devil May Cry series. I think they're known as Hell's Vanguard if I remember correctly.
And here are some animated cartoonish ones ones I've made for fun.
So yeah... have a go. If you want more ideas, I suggest browsing Pinterest for "Dark Fantasy Wraiths". You will find an endless list of illustrations there where you can pick and choose what random features to add. That's all I have to say for this tutorial so thanks for checking it out and I look forward to making more tutorials in the future. See ya later!