Hollowframe - Stalker, January 2025

In January 2025 I added Stalker from Warframe to my ongoing Hollowframe project, of which the goal has been to draw every warframe in the styles and themes of Hollow Knight!

Stalker is a special case addition, similar to Excalibur Umbra, where he isn't a standard release warframe. I had not planned on adding him to the Hollowframe roster originally, but after his addition to Duviri and the Jade Shadows quest as a playable warframe I felt that it made enough sense to include him after I finished Hollowframe Jade. In Jade's piece, I included a little easter egg of Stalker's face lurking in the shadows, and that shaped the idea of Stalker's piece taking place from that same location, this time featuring Stalker in the foreground and Jade shining in the background (as seen in the timelapse, I had to flip the piece in order to keep that continuity in curtain direction).

As for Hollowframe Stalker's design, I drew upon the Hollowframe designs I had made for Jade and Excalibur Umbra for inspiration. As Jade is portrayed as the White Lady, it made sense to include elements of the Pale King in Stalker's design. However, I felt that a better fit for Stalker's body shape would be the Pure Vessel, which connects his design to Excalibur just as it does in Warframe while still connecting with the royal family of Hollow Knight. I was split on adding red to his design, as that color isn't very prevalent in Hollow Knight except for the Grim Troupe (who I didn't intend on referencing for this design), but after a lot of experimentation I concluded that the additional red improved the piece and his design too much to ignore. I still kept his non-red appearance as an alternate version, which you could say is slightly more """lore-accurate,""' but I've taken enough liberties with this project as is anyways.