No, you may NOT use my artwork for whatever project you have going on. I don't care if I'll get recognition or if I'll get paid. Stop messaging me because the answer will be no.
The only exception are the assets that I make available for download, which is anything in my Resources & Tutorials gallery.
Below is a gallery of everything that I've done on Silent Shadow since 2005 (hard to believe how long ago that was.) All of the characters have gone through some appearance adjustments.
Syleth Reshay
2005, Syleth had a sort of innocent look to her, which did not fit with what I in mind for the character. She was supposed to be 28 years old but looked more like 16, so over time, I adjusted her appearance to look older and tougher. Syleth's appearance was adjusted slightly to give the impression of someone whose racial background can't be determined. This goes with the canon that I have in my head about the Reshay family's background. Syleth herself is actually half yokai—her father unknown and her mother was...hmm... yeah. The teal deer is that I based Syleth's childhood off my own—the concept of the absent father and abusive mother—as a means of coming to terms with my own childhood. Note: my father wasn't absent, but he was emotionally absent, which is just as bad as not being there in my humble opinion.
Rowan Ōkami (later Reshay)
2005, Rowan started off with a last name: Andurs. But later, I decided to change that because yokai generally don't have last names. Since I restarted work on the comic at the beginning of the pandemic, I ended up fleshing out his character more, which meant fleshing out his past. Then it occurred to me that umm hey, yokai have families too so I gave him a last name—the Japanese word for "wolf." Yeah yeah, I know. Not very clever and a little too onpoint but it works. I'm still having difficulty nailing down his personality, though. Kind of a copout, but part of me wants to play with the idea of using the personality traits of my long-time boyfriend (he wouldn't mind as he loves my work) to nail down Rowan's. I also adjusted Rowan's appearance in the same ways that I adjusted Syleth's—namely to make him appear older and less like a teenager. Spoiler: he's four years older than Syleth. Another spoiler, Syleth and Rowan do have a past together but by the opening of Hawk & Wolf, he had lost most of his memories due to something I'm not ready to give away just yet.
Kestrel Amane
2005, Kestrel was a very minor character—Syleth's spirit guide. She only shows up once in the earlier pages. In 2017, I decided to flesh her character out more and make her into one of the main characters. Kestrel is Syleth's best friend from childhood. She's the main person that helps Syleth keep her head on straight when Sy is feeling homicidal—the other person being Rowan. She also serves as a healer for when Sy is seriously injured in the field. Which fits directly into her career as a paramedic. There's a few other deets there but I'll leave those out for now.
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Favorite style of art: CGI, vector illustration, anime, manga, cel-shading
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