The Chromatica Gods

"Some more Chromatica stuff! Here are all six of the gods, which each preside over (and can’t leave) their own zones. In, well, rainbow order, we have Mania, Agape, Stroge, Pragma, Ludus, and Eros. Their elemental affinities are pretty apparent!

For some background, these guys weren’t always gods. Initially, they were acolytes for an eldrich-horror-y monstrosity, who had created humans for amusement. Considering that this previous god really didn’t give a hoot about humanity and treated them like people might treat Sims (”Ooh, how long will one of them last if I lock them in a room without food or water?”), people… Weren’t happy. The six acolytes, tired of seeing their friends tortured and murdered for the god’s amusement, killed it and took its symbols – the source of its power – for themselves. These symbols, as long as they’re attached, give them different elemental powers, extreme longevity, immortality, and also make them glow really bright colors. This was fine and dandy for a bit, but humans aren’t really built to handle that much power, so these gods are a bit, uh, unstable from time to time.

I’m having a lot of fun with the world-building for this universe, even if I’m not sure what I’m gonna end up doing with it. But hey, what’s fun is fun, even if it doesn’t have a point, right? I’d like to make a map of the various zones (they’re all based on colors, of course) at some point, too, so we’ll see how that goes!"

 - 2018 Brennan

Eros Bio Test

"Since I was just talking about Chromatica, have another one of the gods, Eros! He… He speaks for himself, I think.

As a fun fact, I have a hard time drawing people looking right at the “camera” – it makes me feel like they’re staring into my soul. Combine somebody staring into the camera with the fact that he’s making that face, and, yeah… I had to cover up his face with a scribble on another layer while I colored and shaded for a bit. He’s making me uncomfortable. Still happy with how he turned out, though! I don’t think that this will be his actual official concept art, since if I make ones for all the other gods I’d like them to all fit together as a set and I’m just not gonna be up to doing detailed shading on all of them, but as fun jokey picture I like it."

 - 2018 Brennan