Hollowframe 57 + Umbra, TennoCon 2024 Community Showcase winner, June 2024
Hollowframe has been a giant project of mine with the goal of drawing every warframe in the styles and themes of Hollow Knight! I've been working on it for the past three years now, starting as drawing practice and most recently featured in the TennoCon 2024 Community Showcase! There have been many iterations of the project over the years, but I've chosen to post this version specifically as it is in the most polished state it has ever been, with more visibility online than ever before!
For the TennoCon 2024 Community Showcase, I made entirely new designs for Dante and Jade!
Dante has taken the most time of any Hollowframe design so far, both due to a much higher level of detail and the struggle to pull off many thematic ideas at once. I'm overall really happy with how he turned out, though I could have spent less time on various steps of the process.
Jade in comparison was done very quickly, keeping a more focused set of themes in mind and iterating through the process much faster than Dante as I ran up against the showcase deadline. I'm very happy with how her design ended up, showing my increased proficiency while still keeping within a reasonable timeframe and closeness to Hollow Knight.
On top of these two big new additions, I also took the liberty to rework many of my older designs that I felt didn't connect with the Hollow Knight styles and/or themes well enough. These included Lavos, Hildryn, Hydroid, Ember, Frost, Xaku, Banshee, Saryn, Limbo, Mesa, Inaros, Mesa, Trinity, and Oberon, among more minor tweaks to a bunch more. Some of these changes were simple tweaks to design, while others were fully redrawn. In the past I've shied away from changing past designs, but I felt it fitting for this edition of the poster. There are still definitely designs that could be improved in general, but for now I believe they now all fit the goal of the project!
Alongside the TennoCon 2024 showcase submission, I also made playing card designs with every Hollowframe design! These were originally intended to be handed out physically at TennoCon 2024, but due to delays in shipping they were unfortunately not delivered in time. I'm still happy with how they look though!
I still plan to keep adding future warframes as they are released, so keep an eye out for future editions of Hollowframe!
You can find the TennoCon 2024 Community Showcase forum post here: https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1383959-tennocon-2024-community-showcase-winners-announced/
Hollowframe 57 + umbra poster, with two new additions and over a dozen reworks and fixes to older designs just in time for the TennoCon 2024 community showcase!
Hollowframe Dante
Based on Soul Master, Lifeblood, moths, and Cornifer.
A background was not included, as it wasn't necessary for the TennoCon 2024 showcase submission. A version with a finished background will be posted separately!
Hollowframe Jade
Based on both the White Lady and Mothwing Cloak.
A background was not included, as it wasn't necessary for the TennoCon 2024 showcase submission. A version with a finished background will be posted separately!
Many older designs were reworked this time around! Some were just smaller tweaks, while others were fully redrawn to bring them closer to the Hollow Knight style and quality.
Hollowframe playing card designs made soon after submission in commemoration of the TennoCon 2024 edition!
I originally planned to hand out these cards at TennoCon 2024, but unfortunately they weren't delivered in time.
Hollowframe Excalibur Umbra playing card design closeup.
Photo of me holding a custom printed deck of my Hollowframe playing card designs. Originally made to be handed out at TennoCon 2024, but unfortunately they weren't delivered in time.
Timelapse of the changes made to the Hollowframe poster for the TennoCon 2024 showcase.
Hollowframe Dante WIP montage.
Hollowframe Dante timelapse, unfortunately I only recorded part of the process.
Hollowframe Jade timelapse.
Photo scan of a print of the poster with signatures by many people from Digital Extremes!
Selfie taken in front of the Hollowframe poster featured at TennoCon 2024!
Photo of the Hollowframe poster submission in the TennoCon 2024 Community Showcase catalog.
Grid of the 58 Hollowframe designs at the time. I no longer use this old grid file for drawing new designs, but I thought I might as well add in the new designs while I worked on the reworked designs.