Artist who created Vecna in Stranger Things has shared the first designs, and I am SCARED

The concept artist who designed Vecna in Stranger Things has shared some of the initial designs they worked with for the monster, and honestly, I’m not sure I’ll ever sleep soundly again. You thought Vecna was scary on the show? Wait until you see what he could have looked like.

Michael Maher Jr is an Emmy nominated concept artist and director for film and TV, and has posted some of his Stranger Things designs across his different social media channels. The first design has Vecna with multiple arms and legs, much like that of an insect. On TikTok, Michael explains the villain would have used these to stab his victims.

Some more of the designs include the monster being covered in mouldy rot from living in the Upside Down, whilst others were based on prehistoric fish, and even saw Vecna covered in gross spikes. Some of the designs are so scary, the TikTok posts of them come with viewer discretion and content warnings. The scariest one sees Vecna with his skin hanging off in places, and melted around the eyes.

The artist has also shared the reasons why these designs didn’t make the cut, including the designs not hiding Vecna’s identity well enough, being too hard to shoot or not being able to allow Vecna to be expressive enough.

Straight up, some of these are HAUNTING.

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