Character design and book illustration made for a project in production. The story is set in a post-apocalyptic and desert world. Face of Mud is an underground-dwelling witch using her monstrous and disgusting appearance to scare others and improve her survival rates. I wanted to turn the usual “ballgown” type of dress into something sinister, to show both her monstrous and femme fatale sides. The fluffy and over-the-top attire was thus reshaped into something made of dusty, acrid rags covered in dirt. The typical long gloves associated with ballgowns were changed into long “sleeves” of mud, with overly long silver claws at the end. As for the powdered look of a well-put lady, it turned into mud as well, giving the silhouette an uncanny, almost otherworldly look.
