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Mortasheen - more sketches

Early takes on the new biomecha concepts, and some other thingies, including an idea for an insect-based writing system.

Mortasheen - new biomecha sketches II

This one's public, in case non-patrons wonder what they're missing and if it's worth at least a dollar!

Some of these may be used, as part of unrelated lines to the previous sketches.

Mortasheen - new biomecha sketches I

The  large middle one and the bottom left are possibly going to be finalized.

These are huge biomecha that use a sleeping "pilot" as an extension of their brain.

Patron sketch request - oozoskeleton

Arthropods with slime shells!!

patron sketch request - Margo!

a Mortasheen OC whose head is the canister she was grown in!

Patron sketch request - Lobster Moth Arthropoid

Whoops, the pokemon sketch left an imprint on this paper...maybe I press a bit too hard

Patron Request: a pokemon that's "secretly" another pokemon after something terrible happened

Inspired by the cubone-kangaskhan connection, the idea was to come up with another pokemon that's actually an existing pokemon after undergoing some sort of tragedy.

So, it would never be "confirmed" either in or out of canon, but "Wendisnow" here would really be the defoliated remains of an impossibly old, maybe even petrified Abomasnow. Grass/ghost with an ability that absorbs ice attacks as HP.

Hi-res Mortasheen Art and Concept Notes: Crepugnant

I just brought this monster up in a recent tumblr post, and realized I may have never shown it in high-resolution detail; it's definitely one of the most meticulously detailed monsters I ever illustrated for Mortasheen.

Crepugnant's concept started as a "catoblepas"-inspired monster, a beast that hid its "ugly" face and could cause harm just by being seen. This is also reminiscent, to me, of the more innocent "squonk" from North American folklore, so I came to think of the monsters as ...

March Requests!

Put them in if they apply!!

Patron Request - Dr. Phage offshoot

Phage manifests in many different ways that blend in to different layers of reality.

Patron Request - Pitcher Plant Monsters

Patron Sketch Request - a Mortasheen equivalent to Pikmin

Still as tiny as canon Pikmin

Patron Request - Radioactive Frog

A hypothetical Mortasheen being that would be named Kerobyl!

Mortasheen concept sketch - Bat Cave Monster

Mortasheen - possible new "Jabbersnatch"

This monster was originally a black silhouette, which will not display very well on my site without its own background, so this new version is a little more colorful.

I'm tempted, though, to retcon Jabbersnatch as an Ectosaur class, but this would also mean changing its name to something ending in "geist," and dropping the Jabberwock/Bandersnatch gag.

This might be for the best because Jabbersnatch never had much to do with the monster I named Banderwock, and maybe the name Jabb...

Hi-Rez Foulmonella + Concept Details

It's been a few years since I made the Fectoid class, and this artwork honestly looks pretty bad to me now. I could do so much better (by my personal standards) in 2019!

I don't know what it is about "dead fish" I love as a monster theme, but Foulmonella is the embodiment of that. Obviously the tail is a fish skeleton and the two-lobed head is an abstraction of a fish head, but it's also meant to look like an entire pair of fish, as well as two sacs of fish roe or 'caviar:'

2019-03-03 18:13:28 +0000 UTC View Post

Hi-rez Magdolene and Exclusive Info!

This is going to be your new $5 and up reward, and I'm sorry I hadn't even thought of it sooner! Not just full-size art uploads, but all the details I can think of that I haven't really shared before!

FOR INSTANCE:

-Magdolene is literally exactly as old a concept as Doctor Phage. Both of them were doodled on the same exact sheet of paper many years ago while I tried to think of character ideas for a friend's game concept.

-Initially I thought Magdolene would be "funny" en...

February requests!

Sorry to post them on the very last day of the month, but I'll catch up to them as I'm able! Even if you can't be a patron in March, February requests will go up public anyway so you should still be able to see them by checking back here!

Mortasheen - Zappergeist

This was a rather sudden idea and I feel like the art came out a bit rushed, though it's difficult to really get shading, highlighting and detail into such a thin design.

I also worry that this design somehow detracts from the Shivergeist, since it's an even spindlier Ectosaur with even more snaggly, weird jaws going on.

Q&A Thread

I already answer all sorts of questions on social media for free, so I'm still trying to come up with something better for $5 patrons and up, but in the meantime, feel free to get your money's worth: I'll answer absolutely anything $5 patrons ask me, here or in private, no matter how strange or silly or even kinda intrusive you think those questions are, no matter how many questions, no matter how long it takes!

TEXT FILE DOWNLOAD: Mortasheen Plants and Fungi

An expanded document on noteworthy Mortasheen flora, both harmless and not so much!

Full Size Jerry (and concept notes)

I kind of ran out of other forms of bonus content for Patreon, so how about uploads of Awful Hospital stuff at high-resolution along with never-before-shared background information?

Jerry's design is heavily inspired by the aesthetic style of artist Mark Powell's gruesome, meaty nightmare dioramas, which were also the basis for SCP-610, or "The Flesh That Hates."

610 obviously has a lot more in common with the Parliament of Old Flesh, but it wasn't the main inspiration. There h...

Patron Request - Chica!!!

How she would look as an Awful Hospital character!

Mortasheen - Festerupt

This name was originally made for a completely different monster in the same "family," but that concept has been majorly reworked and will be called something else now!

Patron Request - BOPPIN'!

The main characters from this bizarre puzzle platformer.

Their in-game mission is to save all the enemies and bosses kidnapped from all the other games!

Patron Request - Cinerblock with Muscly Limbs

She's MAD!!!!!!!!!!! But that's what makes her HAPPY!!!!!!

Patron Request - Sugarplum Fairies

Patron Request - Toad Head Goldfish Video Game Enemies

Both the bubble-eyed and "celestial" goldfish breeds, and how they attack!

Patron Request - Cactus Boy

This is an obscure character from an old internet zine!

Patron Request - Reverse Spoyd

How would spiders portray a human in a way that would be "cute" to them? Maybe like this I guess!