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Anish Thakur — Portfolio 2025
Portfolio — Dark worlds made visible
Silent Protagonist

ANISHTHAKUR

Character Designer · Story Architect · Background Artist

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Aeron Blckveil character sheet
Aeron Blckveil — Character Sheet, 2025
Identity

I design
what
haunts you.

I'm Anish Thakur, working under the pen name SilentProtagonist — a character designer, story architect, and background artist who builds worlds from darkness and intention.

Every character I design carries psychological weight. Every environment breathes with unease. I work at the intersection of horror, restraint, and narrative — where a single silhouette communicates more than a thousand words.

Dark themes. Cinematic execution. Mixed experimental technique.

Character Design
Creature Concept
Background Art
Sequential Art
Story Design
Visual Development
Horror / Noir
IP Development

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Character Design
// The Blckveil Universe

Aeron Blckveil

Protagonist · The Man at The Threshold

Height: 183cmLean · ControlledPower Through Stillness

In a reality of three layers — The Living World, The Fracture, and The Threshold — Aeron is the only being who exists permanently in the third. He doesn't fight with force. He commands space without movement. Structured white coat over absolute black. Calm as a held breath before something irreversible.

+ The Problem
How can a single character communicate power, isolation, and mystery within a minimal environment? Creating strong narrative presence using limited elements — one character, one architectural structure, one controlled colour palette.
+ The Solution
A high-contrast composition using a red torii gate as symbolic frame — architecturally perfect for a being between worlds. The white coat against deep crimson asserts hierarchy and psychological dominance through colour alone, not action.
Medium
Digital Paint
Year
2025
Duration
3 Weeks
Deliverables
Full Sheet + Key Art
Pencil SketchProcreatePhotoshop
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Character + Poster
// Raiyn Varos Universe

Raiyn Varos

Anti-Hero · Design Inspired from a Real Person

Grounded RealismUrban HorrorGuilt Embodied

He made a choice. The city moved on. The shadow didn't. Raiyn Varos is a man trapped in the aftermath of an irreversible moment. The entity behind him doesn't speak. It doesn't accuse. It simply follows. When he turns to face it, he isn't fighting a monster — he's fighting the version of himself from that single irreversible second.

"Some ghosts aren't here to die. They're here to stay."
+ The Problem
How can psychological guilt be visualised in a grounded urban setting without exaggerated horror elements? Communicating internal conflict through atmosphere and subtle visual cues — not action, not monsters.
+ The Solution
The shadow entity positioned slightly behind — not threatening, just present. Controlled teal lighting and minimal palette keep the horror psychological. The character's downward gaze carries the entire emotional argument.
Medium
Digital Paint
Year
2024
Duration
2 Weeks
Deliverables
Poster + Sheet + Comic Page
Pencil SketchProcreatePhotoshop
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Creature Design
// Post-Apocalyptic Horror

Morrow Vaal

Infected · A Survivor Who Did Not Fully Survive

Memory LossPreserved HumanityDeterioration With Awareness

A second viral collapse targeting memory and identity rather than immediate death. Morrow represents deterioration with awareness — skeletal physique, collapsed posture, hollowed expression communicating prolonged suffering, not aggression. He is not a creature. He is a survivor who did not fully survive.

"The virus took his memory. What remained was the shape of a man — and the silence where a person used to be."
+ The Problem
How can a viral outbreak be visualised without conventional zombie or grotesque mutation tropes? Designing an infected character who communicates memory loss, physical deterioration, and lingering humanity simultaneously — while maintaining realism and emotional weight.
+ The Solution
Restraint and realism: emaciated anatomy for long-term degeneration, hunched posture for spinal pain, minimal clothing for vulnerability, natural skin tone with desaturated shading. Preserved facial humanity to maintain empathy. The virus manifests as visible wasting — not transformation.
Research Phase
Virus Study + Writing
Year
2024
Duration
2 Months Total
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Front · Back · Side + Poses
Pencil SketchProcreatePhotoshop
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Character Design
// Crimson Veil Universe

Seris Valen

Assassin · Fear is More Efficient Than Force

White = AbsenceRed = What RemainsSilence Over Blood

A precision assassin built around control, elegance, and psychological dominance. Her targets rarely see her draw a blade. By the time steel reflects in their eyes, the decision has already been made. The rose choker — beauty fused with danger. She was trained to eliminate threats. She learned something deeper: fear is more efficient than force.

"She does not rush. She waits for hesitation — because hesitation is where power shifts."
+ The Problem
How to design a lethal assassin without over-armoured, aggressive, or hypersexualised tropes? The challenge was finding costume language and skin tone that communicated lethality through posture and elegance alone.
+ The Solution
Restricted palette: black, white, red — each with specific symbolic meaning. Red only at emotional focal points. Asymmetrical garment flow for dynamic movement. Minimal weapon exposure. 2 weeks story development + 2 weeks design iteration to find the right costume language.
Story Dev
2 Weeks
Design Phase
2 Weeks
Year
2025
Deliverables
Full Sheet + Poses
Pencil SketchProcreatePhotoshop
How I work

The Method
Behind
The Madness.

Sequential work — Raiyn Varos, Chapter 01
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Story First, Always

Every character begins with a written question: what weight does this person carry? I research, write, and understand before picking up a pencil. Morrow Vaal took 2 months — weeks of virus research came before a single sketch.

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Silhouette is the Argument

If the shape doesn't communicate in pure black, detail won't save it. I obsess over silhouette before touching value or colour. Aeron's white coat exists because of this principle — it reads from across a room.

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Colour as Psychology

Every colour decision is symbolic. Seris Valen's black-white-red palette tells her entire psychological story. Morrow's desaturated warm tones communicate slow biological failure. Colour is a narrative tool, not decoration.

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Sequential Thinking Always

Even single illustrations are built with panel logic. The Raiyn Varos comic page uses temperature shifts — cold teal to warm amber — to engineer escalating dread across seven frames.

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Universes Built
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Personal
Experiments.

Work that lives outside briefs and universes — style explorations, genre experiments, characters born from curiosity. This is where technique gets tested and ideas breathe before they become full concepts.

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The Touch of Corruption — Light Version

A reinterpretation of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam — one hand rendered in clean line, the other flayed and bleeding. The gap between them is the entire story: the moment before corruption becomes irreversible.

// Character Animation
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Character animation study — bringing the design language into motion. Frame timing, weight, and posture translated from static sheet to moving form.

Style Range

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Shone
Character Sheet · Anime / Slice of Life
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Shone
Anime Style · Slice of Life · Character Sheet

A full character sheet in a lighter register — anime proportions, expressive pose studies, soft palette. Proof that the design toolkit extends beyond darkness into warmth and movement. Range is part of the craft.

Anime StyleSoft PaletteExpression Study
Style
Anime / Illustration
Type
Character Sheet
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Character Sheet · Post-Apoc Tactical
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Post-Apocalyptic · Action · Tactical Design

A post-apocalyptic survivor — full action pose sheet with combat stances, weapon handling, and equipment detail. The worn olive coat and layered tactical gear communicate a character who has been living in collapse for years, not hours. Gritty. Functional. Determined.

Combat PosesTactical GearSurvival Aesthetic
Style
Action / Post-Apoc
Type
Action Sheet
Ghost
Character Sheet · Tactical / Sci-Fi
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Ghost
Sci-Fi Tactical · Three-View Sheet

A white-haired tactical operative — three-view character sheet with front, three-quarter, and back. The muted black and white palette with tactical vest and long coat sits in a different genre entirely from Seris Valen, demonstrating how the same visual language can serve completely different narratives.

Three-View SheetSci-Fi TacticalNeutral Palette
Style
Sci-Fi / Tactical
Type
Three-View Sheet

Open for work

Let's Build
Something Dark.

Available for character design, creature concepts, background art, visual development, and sequential storytelling. If your project lives in shadow — I'm your person.

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