Dead by Daylight Badge Design Submission 2025 - Harbor's Terror
This is the concept art and final image for my submission for the Dead by Daylight 2025 Design Competition. My submission is for a badge that would be displayed on player banners in the main menus and post game ranking. I based the design on my favourite build that has become a meme in the community and that it felt appropriate since I have been doing seagull character concept art for my portfolio. Overall im really happy with how this turned out and it was a great learning experience since I have more practice in character/outfit design.
First, second and final thumbnails for the badge. I wanted to make sure I would be 100% happy with how the drawing would turn out. I referenced everything from normal harbours/ports to cuthulu/lovecraftian horror sea/nautical themes.
This image just shows the process of drawing/colouring the badge. Starting with base colours/gradient, shadows/lights then moving into smaller adjustments to values and outline colours.
The final render for the badge submission. This shows the badge with the provided in game border, its tile and a small description in-keeping with in game item/cosmetic descriptions.