Visual direction and character designs for the Red Crescent Syndicate: antagonists for my story. It's way too much fun drawing and writing the villains.

One of the main baddies is an enforcer for this seedy organization, and I wanted him to have a cold, unpredictably threatening presence. I figured using this traditional Vietnamese straw mask that hung in my old bedroom and haunted my childhood was a good place to start. Gotta take inspo from everything and everywhere.