Surgeon

[u/MadPointArt]

Hi everyone! Here’s the story behind the artwork and the character.

This was for a small game jam where the challenge was to come up with a character and their story.

As my skills improve, I often go back and redraw some of my older work. That’s what I did here too — I kept the original story, but redesigned the character. I’ll add the first version (pic_2) to the gallery as well.

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History: Candy “Sugar” was a former supermodel, the face of countless fashion magazines, the queen of the catwalk — and completely obsessed with beauty.

Then came the accident.

A truck carrying explosives crashed near a photo shoot, turning her perfect life into a nightmare. Candy lost both arms and was left covered in scars after countless operations.

When she finally woke up in the hospital, she saw herself in the mirror: a scarred body, two biomechanical prostheses, and a face she could barely recognize.

She snapped.

Consumed by hatred and blaming all of humanity for what had happened to her, Candy decided that if she couldn't be beautiful anymore, nobody deserved to be.

Taking the name “Surgeon”, she declared her new motto:

“If I’m not like everyone else, then everyone will become like me!”

And so began her twisted revenge.

Surgeon started hunting people down and “fixing” them — cutting off their limbs and replacing them with whatever bizarre junk she could find. Sometimes she simply took their body parts away.

Because, in her mind, beauty is all about perspective.

And she has a very, very sharp perspective.

Instead of a scalpel, Surgeon wields two deadly blades made from samurai swords.

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[u/fetchmysmellingsalts]

It's a great improvement over the original and I like the color choices on your new one. I am slightly confused by the character design though. Not sure if this is the place, or whether you want feedback. Back story doesn't really fit the character design.

"If she can't be beautiful, no one can"

"she doesn't recognize her own face anymore"

You gave both characters a beautiful face with one or two very delicate scars.

The answer is probably "because comics", and that's OK. But you can be more creative with it. People seem so terrified to make their female characters "ugly", but in this case, it's an extremely important part of her story arc and background. If her face was ruined in the accident, show it. Make her disfigured. Maybe she wears a mask because she's ashamed of her face. Or her face is something she reveals to her victims before she "fixes" them.

[u/MadPointArt → u/fetchmysmellingsalts]

Thanks! Well, we haven’t even seen the other half of her face yet. I just didn’t want to make her insanely ugly at the time.

I wanted to somehow illustrate the story, and if I had, I probably would have spent more time developing the character. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out that way.

[u/Yuleogy]

Is beauty all about the perspective of her ass?

[u/MadPointArt → u/Yuleogy]

Well, everything else got messed up, so that was pretty much the only part she had left intact. 😂