"Nightmarish rituals crave a newborn. Find one, and silence its harrowing cry.”
My Ch 6 “Alba” artwork for Apokalypsis. An illustration of Queen Yharnam in front of Mergo's Wet Nurse and the pale moon, standing at the end of the Nightmare of Mensis.
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Ryan Van Dongen
"Good hunter. This may sound strange, but... Have I somehow changed?"
My Ch 5 “Sonno” artwork for Apokalypsis. An illustration of Lady Maria and the Doll's connection across dreams/realities, and linking the state of death with dreaming in #Bloodborne
Ryan Van Dongen
“Atonement for the wretches...
By the wrath of Mother Kos...“
My Ch 4 “Carne” artwork for Apokalypsis: Byrgenwerth’s fateful visit to the fishing hamlet where they found Kos washed ashore, crawling with parasites, and their actions would catalyze their spiral into the nightmare.
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Ryan Van Dongen
“Curse the fiends, their children too. And their children, forever, true“
My Ch 3 “Pietra” artwork for Apokalypsis. I wanted to depict Yharnam’s cityscape while emphasizing the corrupt, sinister character of the city, the cathedral’s Astral Clocktower, and surrounding architecture of #bloodborne.
Ryan Van Dongen
“Here we stand, feet planted in the earth, but might the cosmos be very near us, only just above our heads?”
My Ch 2 “Cosmos” artwork for Apokalypsis. I wanted to show #Bloodborne Great Ones arranged like a twisted divine vision, something you might see while making contact with Yharnam’s cosmos 🌌
Ryan Van Dongen
My Ch 1 “Blood” / “Sangue” artwork for Apokalypsis. For this piece I wanted to capture the visceral horror of the hunt, even with “regular” encounters of Yharnam like scourge beasts and large huntsmen, juxtaposed with the fearless hunter, a whole different form of terrifying and formidable beast… 🩸
Ryan Van Dongen
My “Tempo” / “Time” artwork for RoundTwo’s new Bloodborne lore book Apokalypsis: Blood. For Chapter 0 I decided to depict a pivotal event in the history of Bloodborne - the burning of Old Yharnam
