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Last time I said that my friends SinderyNaralex and EndiDjPrime have been obsessed over the game "Hollow Knight". I didn't really have the chance to get a proper introduction to this game, but now I finally managed to buy it and now I can say with full confidence that I LOVE THIS GAME! It is charming, adorable, challenging, interesting, amazing, beautiful... Gaah, I love it a lot!I already drew a trio of custom tiny Hollow Knight based bugs , and tried my best to stay as close as possible to the game's style, and now I decided to do it once again, but instead of creating the Vessel type characters I moved to NPC type of characters.
Just for funs I decided to write about each one of them similarly to how each character of the game is described in the game's Wiki, so don't consider any of the information given below to be canon to the game or something
Miren - A modest magician who believes in a bright future, despite all the troubles that occur in Hallownest . She wants to become famous and show everyone her magic tricks on stage as she did before the collapse of the kingdom. In general, she does not help the Knight in any way, and only shows them her tricks for a very small amount of geo .
Trivia:
- Originally at the end of her storyline she leaves Hallownest, but under certain circumstances she might become a boss.
- The amount of spent geo for Miren's magic tricks will be reclaimed after the end of her boss battle plus 2000 geo.
Buzzie - is a cheerful and carefree merchant that can be initially found near the Hive . Most of her goods are completely useless cheap trinkets like confetti and honey drops. She might tell the player a few important details about the world and the enemies the Knight might encounter if the player spends more than 2000 geo on her goods. The catch is that all of her goods cost no more than 10 geo.
Trivia:
- Eventually Buzzie will move her store to other locations, and her prices will become cheaper.
- When Buzzie moves her store to Dirtmouth she will give the player her lucky charm (Buzzie's Charm) that will create an explosion of confetti each time the Knight jumps if the charm is equipped. The charm itself is completely useless and will break if the player dies.
Valkyrie - A fearless warrior, a former student of the Legendary masters of Nail Arts, helps only those who managed to defeat her in a battle. Can be found in several locations throughout the game and may assist the protagonist in trials.
Trivia:
- Valkyrie is one of the characters that can help during a boss fight.
- Under certain circumstances she can become a secondary boss (in this case, she will not help the player in any way).
- Originally she wields two big nails, but later on uses four during her boss encounter.
- At the end of her storyline (if not hostile) can be found in the Resting Grounds where she talks about leaving Hallownest to find glory.
Previous Hollow Knight related artwork: fav.me/dbzrt9h
Hollow Knight (c) Team Cherry
Edit: Removed Valkyrie's blades from the reference.
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Comments: 22
megakyurem4188 [2019-10-14 22:52:18 +0000 UTC]
keep up the great work, the designs are really well done
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TurquoiseThought [2018-07-17 12:20:44 +0000 UTC]
Even though I'm sadly unfamiliar with the game, this sound's interesting. Their desings have a lot of personality and I must say that you did very good job with the butterfly(?) wings.
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whatevstu In reply to TurquoiseThought [2018-07-20 10:08:41 +0000 UTC]
The game is really cool, I'd suggest it to anyone^^ Thanks a bunch! The butterfly's wings were a complete nightmare to draw xD
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TinyTentacle [2018-07-15 16:16:42 +0000 UTC]
WOW ! Your first hollow knight piece already impressed me, but now I'm even more impressed, I mean, this fits perfectly with the in game artstyle ! (and jeez as doing a pretty big number of fanmade HK characters I know it's hard to do x) I really love them, and I really hope to see more hollow knight work from you in the future !
Now, i've got severals things to tell you, first of all, would you be interested in doing a HK (artstyle) collab ? (go to my profile and check out what I do, I will not be offended if you say no of course !) I haven't really made any collabs myself but it could be something to try !
Secondly, (I don't want to tell you that artwork or technique is bad of course, I just want you to get better ^^), your reproduction of the in game style is nearly perfect, only small details are not fitting :
-the nails of Valkyrie are took from the assets of the game and while it's not a bad idea, sadly they didn't fit the in game style, if you look at charaters that have nails on their back, you'll see that they always have a simple nail the most of the time, only grey with outlines, here it is easy to see that this is the pure nail from the Menu .
-the eyes of Buzzie in the non grimm form are too "Manga"ish, due to the fact that you changed their shape too much from queen vespa's eyes (wich obviously you took inspiration from)
-Also your background is simple but effective, and the whole presentation is pretty good, the only thing I could tell you is that the blue "squares" (they're not really square but you see what I'm talking about) are kind of breaking the whole Hollow knight style/pattern , you should just have put the titles in white using the Perpetua font (like you did for your dialogues) and use a big size rather than putting these squares, and I could say the same thing for the Nightmare names at the bottom, you should have kept the same font.
These are just little mistakes (and also it is my opinion, maybe you think that all of this is intended and that they are no mistakes at all !) and Overall your characters are REALLY REALLY good ^^
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whatevstu In reply to TinyTentacle [2018-07-16 12:21:26 +0000 UTC]
Oh, wow, thank you so much for such a long feedback, it really means a lot to me! And thanks a whole bunch for the constructive criticism, I will consider what you've said next time I'm drawing something related to Hollow Knight. ^^
I'm not sure about the collab though, because I'm still having some troubles mimicking the style that make me a bit unsure about taking such a gigantic step in this category (doing an entire collab around it). Perhaps when I'm feeling more confident with drawing in HK's style? (I've checked your HK work and it looks really cool btw ^^)
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TinyTentacle In reply to whatevstu [2018-07-17 14:26:42 +0000 UTC]
Well, thank you ^^ and no prob if you're not feeling up to it right now ! I was thinking about we send each other sketches and we could make the final version of the character from the sketch (so not really a collab but wathev) but yeah if you don't want to right now no prob ^^ (I'm not really proud of some of my HK work as well, certains characters really don't fit the in game style).
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wynarity [2018-07-12 16:15:15 +0000 UTC]
These are badass looking.
I’m really surprised no one has tried to make an HK fan game.
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Grimpeace In reply to wynarity [2018-07-24 15:28:32 +0000 UTC]
I think it's because of the art style being, perhaps, a little too complicated for people not originating from Godhome. There are strong-willed and powerful individuals who manage to draw a sketch or two, the ones that draw high-quality HK content are to be considered half-gods or third-gods. And this is only about art style, while the game also has fantastic music which would be very hard to mimic.
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whatevstu In reply to wynarity [2018-07-14 13:02:00 +0000 UTC]
Thanks!
Maybe there are people that wish to do, or maybe already are working on such game, you never know.
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Proj-FATAL [2018-07-12 15:15:41 +0000 UTC]
Omg, i love these designs <3
They really look like something straight out of a game screenshot!
You did a fantastic job maintainig the art style, and even their personalities are quirky and interesting like most of the npcs in the game
Such an amazing job, Stuflox ^^
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whatevstu In reply to Proj-FATAL [2018-07-14 13:00:47 +0000 UTC]
Aww, thank you so much! I'm so glad to hear you like it!
I adore the artstyle of this game, and it was incredibly fun to try and mimic it, I'm glad it came out as good as you say, and I am very happy to hear that you like the characters! ^^
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Proj-FATAL In reply to whatevstu [2018-07-14 22:07:35 +0000 UTC]
Haha indeed! You're very welcome!! ^^
Any plans on doing more of these?
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whatevstu In reply to Proj-FATAL [2018-07-14 22:58:12 +0000 UTC]
Of course! I'm having tons of fun drawing in Hollow Knight's style and I would love to make more artworks based around this game ^^
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Proj-FATAL In reply to whatevstu [2018-07-16 03:15:28 +0000 UTC]
Yay! Can't wait to see what you come up with ^^
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