This piece was commissioned by one of my good friends, named Creepy Noodle, based on her own look and her love for spooky season, villains and goth aesthetics.
The idea was to capture that anime opening moment where the heroine is already in motion. Calm but with a smirk, cape flying, and the feeling that someone very deserving is about to have a terrible night.
We pulled from her con outfit and real hair colors for the design. She wanted a gothic magical girl vibe without losing the grounded, real world feel, so the setting is just an empty road and open fields behind her, like she is sprinting away from the chaos she just dealt with or heading straight into the next one.