Cristhian Puerto

Character design commissions (2016 - 2024)

Illustration commissions (2016 - 2024)

SKILLS

Concept art

Drawing

Sketching

Illustration

Anatomy

Color theory

SOFTWARE

Photoshop

Clip studio paint

Blender

Zbrush

ABOUT ME

Hello, My name is Cristhian Puerto, I’m a self taught illustrator and i’ve been drawing for roughly 15 years. I mostly do work designing or illustrating characters for individuals. I’ve done everything from characters, weapons, environments and creatures. Though I mostly use photoshop I do dabble in a bit of 3D to help with concepts.

THE HEARSE

I wanted to design a boat that a character could use to live in and carry the dead. I tried different iterations and landed on a design I thought could work for the idea I had. Later I made a simple model in blender to help see the design from different angles and finally rendered it and and added the details.

T’SALT ROSE

A Half vampryn who loves watching enemy ships burn. When she was a child her caretaker told her a little story about how her parents turned into stars for the sea. A way to lightly tell of their demise. Now that she is older she believes that when ships are destroyed it gives the sea that same warmth and beauty. In her eyes she is creating beautiful stars by burning her enemies away.

STARS

And that’s the Big Dipper!” Aureila enthusiastically pointed to the sparkles of jewels in the sky, eyes beaming with pride in having remembered what little she learnt in her classes in university. “Pfft... No, that’s the Orion, silly.” Kihona lightly corrected Aurelia as she giggled, her breath forming a thin mist of warmth in front of her. “Oh, ah. Right!” Aurelia quickly turned back to the constellation that she thought she recognised, wondering just how she could get such an easy one wrong.

The Winter night breeze carressed their hands tightly holding each other as they walked through the snowy path in the park, warmth transferring between the two and matching each other’s temperature as well as their feelings.

Kihona wondered just how many minutes she had stared intently into Aurelia’s eyes tonight, she hoped to completely capture her attention before they reach the crossroad where they have to split ways to go to their homes.

When she saw the crossroads just up ahead, she couldn’t help but let out a sigh, knowing they’ll have to part soon.

Just then, she was snuck up on with a quick kiss on the mouth from Aurelia, making her heart skip a beat from the sudden clasp of their lips.

“Don’t think I haven’t noticed you staring into my eyes the whole time!” Aurelia’s whimsical laughter sounded like music to Kihona’s ears, standing with her face flush with red while she watched Aurelia dash off to her own direction home, seemingly also blushing as well.

PRINCESS AZAVONNIA HEARTTAKER

A 7ft-tall, agile, talented and hyper-sensitive warrior from an infamous species of alien raiders. She fled her arranged marriage and destiny as a Warren-Mate and leapt into the void, smuggling herself onto Reginald’s vessel. Though many are terrified of the vorpal abilities of her crystalline claws or her imposing height, she considers herself a maiden-in-love, and anyone who gets in the way of her affections, prey ripe for slaughter.

EXVERI

The world is cold plunged in eternal darkness so people keep their light close. I wanted to create a character inspired by lolita fashion. I tried many different clothes until I landed on something I liked. It was simple and warm. Which I felt captured her character. She is meant to be a traveler wondering around city to city.

THE DARK MOON

At a young age Tristania, Bahamut’s first brood daughter, discovered Humanoid races which captivated her. After millennia of contact with humanoids, Tristania became the living empathy, she aided Countries and Empires fighting diseases and natural catastrophes. Later many humanoid societies would regard her as a Goddess of Mercy and Empathy.

A Curse fell upon Tristania by turning her beloved Humanoids against her. This curse would then proceed to flood every Kingdom, every Empire, every City even the small Villages that she once visited with Curses and Diseases. The victims grew spiteful, accusing her for all this evil.

Tristania did all she could to mend and heal the Humanoids but those she managed to cure where later befallen by an even greater disease.

A tumult of dark feelings and thoughts plunged her into a deep, dark depression, followed by thousands of cries, screams and lamentations the Humanoids cast onto her while dying in agony. Over time twisting her mind, body and even her very core, the soul into something gruessome, grotesque, something that has never been seen before in the mortal realm.

CHARACTER NOTES

When creating Tristania’s design I wanted to have that corrupted feeling to her, something pure that turned into something tainted. I thought about what she would have worn before her corruption and added ontop of that. Keeping the old her and showing the new. Her design did change slightly later on based on feedback, the curved claws growing in mass changed to normal spikes and the hollow parts in her body changed to crystals.

THE DEAD ALCHEMIST

A lost soul, awakened to unlife amidst the remnants of a dead empire, she wandered long in her search for meaning, seeking answers in a past that was not hers. The Sanctuary offered her a future instead.

AGNI

A young girl who became a servant to the snake goddess after her death. She was renamed Agni which means fire a name that closely reflects her spirit.

KAMI SHRINE

Shrines come in many forms, some man made, some build into the world around them, others taken over by said world. They are cared after by Mikos (maidens) who constantly watch after the shrines keeping them welcoming and presentable. Occasionally working hand in hand with a kami should it decide to stay.

SNOW WOMAN

A yokai, though masked, is described as inhumanly beautiful, whose eyes can strike terror into mortals that get lost traveling in the snowy mountains. She floats across the snow, leaving no footprints. In fact some tales say she had no feet at all.

HAOHI, THE ETERNAL

A talented warrior who favored the spear as a weapon, which he wreathed in magical flame before battle. He became afflicted during a mission and slowly began to change. Wanting to go out in honor he chose to die by yokai and challenged the strongest in the area. He was fully twisted by the time their battle ended.

INQUISITORS OF THE NORTH

Often mocks or chants, it twists the beliefs to an even worse mockery of kami. Will often grapple with tendral arms to choke out its targets some times carying a spiked morning star as a physical weapon. They are known for their unbreakable poise taking in several death blows before succumbing to their wounds. On her belt are several torture implements, including a pear of anguish, the spider and if one is carrying a backpack, know that they have many more.

SNAKE GOD

The Caeli Hebi, a massive creature that travels through the desert and tropical canyons. It slowly swims through air by using a gaseous orb in it’s underbelly that helps it float about. If the orb is damaged it could cause the Hebi to be grounded making it easy prety to predators lurking about.

TIGER BEETLE

Wanted to design a character based off of the tiger beetle and plants or fungi.

Tiger Beetles are very fast little critters so I tried to make her look fast. Normal feet didn’t show that well so I tried giving long slender bug feet to try and sell the speed better. As for the blindfold, well tiger beetles are blind.

SCARS PART 1

A life or death gambit was made. She had prodigious talent but knew she hadn’t reached any sort of pinnacle. Something was just always eluding her. A lot of her best advancements were made in the heat of battle. Every scar was a lesson. And so she would either grasp onto the true core of magic or die. An otherwise impossible battle was made, she was split in two and yet she did not die.

SCARS PART 2

An epiphany as her mind raced at a million thoughts a minute came to her and she grasped onto the deepest core of magic itself and came out of it wholly transcended as her body slowly became no longer flesh and blood and with her awakening she cut down her would be killer and blossomed into a whole new realm of magic. This new scar across her waist being her greatest lesson of all. Kept solely for the sake of remembering what caused her to grasp onto this power and become something more.

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