{"id":972,"date":"2023-11-12T09:53:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T09:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/?p=972"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:24:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:24:01","slug":"face-of-mud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/2023\/972","title":{"rendered":"Character Design: &#8220;Face of Mud&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 &#8220;ballgown&#8221; type of dress into something sinister, to show both her monstrous and <em>femme fatale<\/em> 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 &#8220;sleeves&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:69px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-84f855d9 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1707\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/artofclor-2023-fom-rgb-v2-s-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-245\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6667946307759405;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/artofclor-2023-fom-rgb-v2-s-scaled.jpg 1707w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/artofclor-2023-fom-rgb-v2-s-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/artofclor-2023-fom-rgb-v2-s-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/artofclor-2023-fom-rgb-v2-s-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/artofclor-2023-fom-rgb-v2-s-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/artofclor-2023-fom-rgb-v2-s-1365x2048.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1707px) 100vw, 1707px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Final Illustration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1811\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2025-char-frame-FOM-s-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2074\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6667946307759405;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2025-char-frame-FOM-s-scaled.jpg 1811w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2025-char-frame-FOM-s-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2025-char-frame-FOM-s-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2025-char-frame-FOM-s-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2025-char-frame-FOM-s-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2025-char-frame-FOM-s-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/artofclor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/2025-char-frame-FOM-s-8x12.jpg 8w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1811px) 100vw, 1811px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Information Sheet Mockup<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;ballgown&#8221; type of dress into something sinister, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"portfolio-page","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character-design","tag-rotor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artofclor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}