So…my only explanation is that I was bored.

It was before I started working, before I had something that would occupy me from 9:00 to 3:00, before I had other things to do with my time. Sometimes I would write my short story, sometimes I would draw, sometimes I would play video games. In this case, it was after I had finished my favorite video game and didn’t really have anything else to do. So, I was messing around with Hollow Knight characters on Procreate, and somehow I ended up with this.

It would be cool to anthropomorphize Hornet, I thought to myself one day. I started out with a human body, but it looked too weird to me for Hornet to have human hands and shoes. So, I made the ends of her limbs pointy, like the actual character. Better, I commented. Then, I added a puffer jacket and some jeans. It felt right to have Hornet be kind of a rebel. But…I felt I was varying too far from original, so I looked at actual Hornet and decided that, to make it more similar, she should have a dress. I didn’t want a boring, one-piece dress, because Hornet deserved better. She was a more interesting gal. I made the dress more interesting – separating the top and bottom, adding more pieces to the skirt – and this is what I ended up with.

I usually save the head for last when I draw, so I was still dreading what I would do. I wanted her to have hair, but the real Hornet head with some hair wouldn’t do. I made the head a mask that was thrown to the side, and drew a human head. I had no idea what I would do for the face, so I just… didn’t. I blurred some colors together and, voila. Now, I didn’t draw the background. I want to make that extremely clear. The background is not one of my own creation. I literally just looked up something like: “silksong game backgrounds” and found one that I liked. Then, I imported it into Procreate and positioned the floor so that the bottom of the legs were standing on it. Then, I was done! It was super fun to create this sort-of Hornet!