Author: Peter Ahola

Production Art: Chief Golderand

| Peter Ahola

Chief Golderand (as the text describes) is based off of Actor Gary Chalk. He’s possibly best known for voicing Optimus Primal in Beast Wars and Optimus Prime in some Transformers cartoons. However I was inspired by his role as the police chief in Freddy Vs Jason as well his role as the principal in Scooby Doo the Mystery Begins. I was looking at pictures of the actor while drawing him, although I made some changes to avoid capturing the actor’s likeness perfectly.

 

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Production Art: Gerald Bultern

| Peter Ahola
PRODUCTION ART: GERALD BULTERN
 
Gerald Bultern is easily one of my favorite designs despite how terrible a person he is. Bultern owns a slaughterhouse and is an outspoken bigot against the jewish community, refusing to let them into his store and actually acknowledging that his own daughter was “dead” to him the moment she started dating a jew.
 
Like many of the characters I had an idea of what he should look like, but when made the finished product (the first image on the upper left) I thought the character looked too young, especially since his daughter is supposed to be a full grown adult. I also thought it would be better to have a grumpy older man as it would give him some history.
 
His character was actually a late comer to the arch, after I read about Jewish prejudice in WhiteChapel around the time of the murders. Racism will actually be a theme in the upcoming arch, with it being a key factor as to why the ripper murders have not been solved.
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Production Art: Kalwa’s Whitechapel Outfit

| Peter Ahola

Kalwa’s outfit for Whitechapel is possibly the hardest costume I’ve yet to come up for, mostly because I didn’t know what to have her wear. When doing research on styles of 1880s, woman of that era all wore long skirts, buttons, and occasionally very fancy clothing. All of which I thought were deemed inappropriate for her character. I spent I don’t know how many months going back and forth trying to find some kind of outfit that would better suit her, and found nothing. I finally came up with the trench coat look after looking at some London scenes in the movie Wonder Woman. Although those are from World World 1 which took place a little less than 20 years after the WhiteChapel Murders, although the trench coat can be dated back to the 1850’s, so it would still make sense in this case.

 

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