October is underway, and as fans anticipate Halloween by playing influential horror games,FromSoftware’s seminal titlesare considered.Dark Souls' morbid high fantasy andBloodborne’s gothic, cosmic horror make for festively spooky atmospheres, though they may not necessarily be considered as part of the standard horror genre.
Rather, Soulstober is fun art challenge that provides prompts for artists and creators to ascribe to the theme of their inspired works for the month of October. Soulstober’s prompts, based on the activity’s namesake, are purposely relative to elements inDark Souls, such as “Soul”, “Undead”, and “Ritual”. Soulstober’s participatory event is only ten days into the month thus far, but fantastic illustrations have already been produced for the activity’s initial prompts.
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Jess Seto, a concept artist and illustrator, has shared their extraordinary contributions to this year’s Soulstober. Soulstober demonstrates that the eerie and paranormal characteristics ofDark Soulsgames are represented in these prompts, which highlight many of FromSoftware’s more haunting storytelling mechanics. Seto’s artwork punctuates each of Soulstober’s prompts with mindful references toBloodborneas well as particulartitles in theDark Soulsfranchise, with the first weekly deadline having been reached today.
Seto’s Soulstober illustrations are all black-and-grey sketches with stunning detail that represents FromSoftware’s character and environment artbeautifully. Seto’s first illustration was shared for the original prompt, “Soul”, withDemon’s Souls' Maiden in Black NPC. But going above and beyond the daily prompt quota, Seto has also shared a “Soul” prompt for the second day of the month in order to depict a Chosen Undead player-character harnessing a soul in their hand.
Day 7 allowed Seto to produce a concept of the player-character emerging from agiant coffin inDark Souls 3for the prompt “Undead”, casting a draw distance past the Ashen One. Day 6 prompts “Fire”, which Seto illustrates with FromSoftware’s checkpoint system mechanic of idle bonfires that the player must search for and ignite inDark Souls.
For the latest daily prompt, “Festival”, Seto has illustratedBloodborne’s Hunter gifting the messengers the Urn Festival skin item. It will be exciting to see what sequences and characters Seto can interpret for October’s following prompts, as there is still over half a month left of daily art challenges for them to contribute to.
Soulstober is ultimately a timelycelebration of FromSoftware gamesfor any participating fans who also love to indulge in some spooky festivities in anticipation of Halloween. It gives fans the chance to see some incredible artwork, too, meaning it is a fun time for everyone.
Dark Soulsis available now on PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.Bloodborneis available now on PS4.
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