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A detailed pencil sketch of... perhaps one of the most "What on earth have I created?" characters I have ever come up with. Like you know those "should I be scared that something like this came from my head?" kind of ideas? He's one of those.

His backstory is unknown, and just about everything about him is unknown. But that's his story. He's a complete mystery that I intend only to explain through "FNaF story" levels of cryptic details throughout my game project. In the game I'm working on, his main role as a character is essentially the same thing as Dr. Hill from Until Dawn, or the cutscenes in The Darkness 2 when Jackie just sits there in a dark room talking to the camera. He breaks the 4th wall to discuss the story to the player in between storyline events, adding a level of philosophical meta and an entirely new meaning to the story itself. He is the storyteller, but at the same time he's not. He's like a living paradox. Everything and nothing, personified into a body of unpredictable nature. I don't know how to describe it, it's one of those ideas you just can't put into words.

One of my favorite things about The Director though, is that he is one of the greatest examples of how my ideas are formed. When I first came up with him, it was in a vivid dream I had where I met this classy red wolf man (exactly him without the skull face print) who kept babbling random yet creepy and meaningful poetry, as he seamlessly teleported and manipulated his form, just following me around and wouldn't shut up, always yelling in an obnoxious accent of some kind. Later after I woke up, I felt it would make a great idea for a character. I drew him out once in my art style, and his pointy & formal appearance paired with the red fur color made him look sort of devilish or demonic. I didn't like that at all, and it's not how I envisioned him. Besides, I satan is powerless and stupid anyways, so why would I want such dumb symbolism in my art? (SHOTS FIRED!! ***AIRHORNS!!***)

What I decided to do to counter his unnerving appearance was to embrace the "strange" factor of his design, and I added a black calavera skull to his facial fur print. Why? I didn't know at the time. I just thought it'd be cool to carry the theme of 3 of my recent characters who where inspired by southwestern symbolism, and it would make him look less demonic and more mysterious. A few months later, I realized that his role as the "narrator" fits in with my other 3 characters who are spiritual rulers of my fictional universe, so in the story I made it so he joined their ranks as well. At this point I now had this well built system of 4 characters who ruled my fictional universe, one of life, one of death, one of peace & order, and now this guy as narration, or in other words "the plan" for how it all roles out. And all these spiritual characters where based on these spiritual topics, so I.. guess.. my decision for giving him a skull print was a good idea? But it still didn't make sense. WHY.

But then later I realized, it was because of his ghostly behavior that he bares a skull print. BOOM! MIND = BLOWN! I come up with one idea that leads to another, that leads to a plot hole that fixes itself with another idea that is linked to a previous one!! This is the kind of creative process I've built my entire story off of so far. On idea followed by a question that is answered by itself. It's like there's a literal universe unfolding in my head that I am simply connecting like a puzzle. I love creative writing so much.


1 of 7 pencil sketches I made in a brand new sketch book I got while on vacation a few months ago. It took me forever to optimize my new phone for importing the original photo to my pc for cropping & editing. It's a bit late.

Character belongs to me.