Basically, i had the idea of make derren as a way to express the amount of frustration i had by the studies and my incomptetent language teacher. I had days that i could not even slep well due to the stress i had and the emails of the teachers reminding us the works for this week did not help to improve my attitude (yes, we had to do extra work that week).

so since i could not stand anymore the amunt of stress and rage that was in my mind, since i cannot study with a bad attitude otherwise i wont learn anything, i decided to draw and give a backstory to a similar character i made a long time ago, and thats how derren was born.

derren was basically going to be a handmade comic about a guy with a living sweater that needs to find a cure for this body state, and it was going to have a lot of blood, morbid themes and grotesque expressions. i had no intentions of derren being a well known character neither i had expectations of him making a fanbase, but i decided to change the story completely.

I dont want jus to be a dark comic, i honestly think is a good experiment to try how i write dialogues por my characters and in proving my artstyle. However, this is still going to be a comic with some serious and dark topics, i just dint wanted to make it a edgy comic with no substance.

here is a small concep desing of one of the cover arts for the comic, but i dint liked how derren looked and i made the second one (The one i already posted)