“Mr. Leon Kennedy.”
I drew this in July, shortly after my partner & I finished our first playthrough of “Resident Evil: Requiem.” Not only was this the first RE game I played, it’s both the first horror and shooter game I’ve ever played! While I grew up playing games and have always loved them, I tended toward RPG’s, simulations, and action-adventure games. I was never drawn to shooters or horror games, which makes me want to share how I made my foray into this game (and subsequently RE2r, and just starting RE3r last night!).
Because I’d never played this type of game before, I didn’t quite know what to expect. I expected to die a lot, which I did – but what I didn’t expect is how impressed I was by how well the sequences after you’re defeated are animated. It almost felt like you were being rewarded with a little bonus clip to console you. They are like miniature scenes from a well-crafted horror movie – delightful. That’s the inspiration behind this drawing, which if you’re familiar with the game, you can hopefully guess which sequence I saw a lot of and was defeated several times by. Haha!
Sometime within the past 1-2 years or so, I happened upon the art of Skelesass (their Bluesky | Tumblr | Ko-fi). I love the expressive quality and draftsmanship of their drawings, though I’m not the most familiar with the IP’s they draw fanworks for. I’d been enjoying their art for a while, when I remarked to my partner how I liked “this RE artist,” and they replied asking if I played Resident Evil. I said I hadn’t, and how I thought it a bit funny I knew nothing about these characters, but that I’d started becoming familiar with a few of their designs through Skelesass’s art. My partner was amused by this, to the extent that when they saw Resident Evil: Requiem during this past “Summer Sale,” they bought it for us to play together.
More info + variations of this artwork in the full post: