Miniscule Mass of Musical Monsters

A habit I'm developing is randomly thinking of monsters/segments inspired by music (mostly game music) and then drawing what they make me think of. Almost all of Enemy's original concept/character designs were sparked by The Invasion From Within.

So I colored my first batch and decided to upload them here, ramble a bit about what I thought of them, and link the song they were inspired by.

Name: Slabulous
Inspired by: Crimsonwood Keep Party Quest
I imagined this being the main menace in a sort of temple escape/advancing wall of doom scenario, where some characters entered a temple and took the treasure, causing all the defense mechanisms to activate and causing a forced scrolling segment past whirring sawblades and thrusting spears and whatnot as Slabulous slowly crawls along after them on its many fingers, smashing through anyone and anything in its way with its constantly-chomping jaws. It's actually a biological monster with extremely rock-like skin, like rock-type Pokemon.

Name: Tankenstein
Inspired by: A song I made in WarioWare DIY.
This is just a straight-up boss monster. His entire torso can flip back to shoot enormous laser beams redirected by small satellites.

Name: Cactus Sanchez
Inspired by: Sunset Heroes
Cactus Sanchez is a man among men. He has infinite grenades and a rocket launcher in his poncho, and rules the desert with a kind yet prickly fist. He's not very kind to strangers.
Name: Love Machine Mk. 3
Inspired by: Sweet Nightmare
There's really no appropriate description or backstory I can cook up for this thing. It's a boss monster similar to Tankenstein. It loves everything, and expresses this by grabbing things and nuzzling them against its heart-shaped face (which unfortunately sprouts spikes when Love Machine is feeling affectionate). It also shoots fireballs and homing hearts from its codpiece by pelvic thrusting.

This is the sort of frivolous shit I think of and draw all the time, so there'll probably be more random monsters/ideas that will never happen in any context ever coming soon.

Duality

Duality is my current story idea. Don't have many drawings worth showing for it yet though, since a lot of them somehow got fucked up in scanning and I have to rescan them.

Duality is my first attempt at real worldbuilding, as most other story ideas I have just take place in some city where crazy shit happens. THIS story takes equal parts in a government coverup-heavy city that covers up anything remotely out of the ordinary and a Touhou-inspired fantasyland sealed off from the rest of the world (depicted in the picture I uploaded previously). This is where my attempt at worldbuilding occurs.


The thing about fantasyland is it was created by a sort of god, which was the embodiment of life. She then populated it with all sorts of crazy crap, and every last character living there is the embodiment of a different thing. Some are humanoid, but just as many of them are just weird creatures; in addition to the ones shown above, the embodiment of earth is a giant catfish that swims through the ground and the embodiment of art is an extremely emotive poorly-drawn notebook doodle. Embodiments of actual elements are very rare, they're mostly embodiments of random concepts. Also, they fight. A lot. Their way of resolving almost any minor conflict or getting to know new people is to just have a brawl with them. Considering that all of them have some sort of superpower related to what they're the embodiment of, this makes living in fantasyland very interesting. Also, general setting-wise, the whole place is sort of like a historic town in that there's no real technology and everyone has to do manual labor for things, and it's vaguely Asian in flavor.
Plotwise, the basic premise is that Abigail (the anglerfish girl) winds up in normal city and is captured, winds up kidnapping a dude named Collin and taking him to fantasyland, and eventually shit gets out of hand and snowballs until there's an all-out war between the two worlds at the end. Fuck I'm tired of writing this.

First actual picture in a long time

I worked pretty hard on this and kinda like it, but I still can't help but feel that something's wrong with it and it's still incomplete, especially on the more distant part with the tree.

Also this is for my other current story idea. Which I have not posted anything for on here yet. Muh.

ENEMY

Enemy is my newest....thing. I don't know what to call it. I just suddenly decided HEY I KNOW I'LL DRAW THE CRAZIEST SHIT I CAN MUSTER and suddenly I had a new style and a bunch of characters.


So far the premise is the main character, Malach Giltine (the dude with the stitched-shut mouth and screws for eyes) is the son of a death god (or shinigami, for all you animu fans out there) . He comes to a big city place because it's full of bastards who like to cheat death, so he has to make sure that they all die when and how they're supposed to. Also, many of them are making deals with demons to preserve their life, so there's a fuckton of goblins and imps and shit skulking about behind the scenes.

I haven't really decided on much for many of these guys yet regarding their personalities and stuff, other than that Alec is A) The Dragon to the bigger villain (the evil little girl) and B) a terrifying psychopath who lives entirely for the amusement he derives from making people suffer in horrible ways.

Also, more doodles.

These dudes and the style are ridiculously fun to draw, so I might wind up making an actually decent picture or two for this story.

Help Me!

Help Me! wasn't my first story idea, but it was certainly the first one I had that wasn't a total pile of shit. The basic premise is that this big enigmatic purple cloud of a mysterious substance later labeled "Truth" swirls into a city and totally fucks everything up by transforming everyone into monsters based on their crippling personality flaws. Soon the whole city is deserted by humans in a desperate attempt to escape, leaving behind a gloomy, ruined city populated by bizarre monsters.


The story follows Collin Ampersand, a clueless, timid rich kid who gets abandoned by his asshole parents and gets turned into an uncannily adorable slime kid due to being a spineless homie. He then tries to figure shit out, go on a path of self-discovery, and generally try to survive long enough to escape a city filled with such creatures as murderous giant sperm and crying heads on wheels that explode when thoroughly distressed. I actually came up with a ton of monsters I really liked for this series, but never scanned the majority of them. I probably should sometime.




Almost every story idea I have ever had ends with what essentially amounts to a final boss battle. I can't help myself. The final boss this time is Desire, a giant monster living underneath the city that is basically every primal human urge and desire rolled into one, despite originally being human, like every other monster in the city. He's quite mad, and is only capable of saying "MORE," yet is the size of a Godzilla monster and capable of brainwashing other monsters into doing his every whim. Unlike most final bosses, he has little to no association with the rest of the story's events, only showing up at the end.

So, naturally, once Collin and his posse find the damn thing, they wind up provoking it and it emerges to wreck shit up. Every other monster in the city sees this, freaks out realizing that if they just keep on being self-indulgent monster bastards they'll become like that, and all team up to fight Desire in a climactic final brawl.

Yo.

I'm a guy. I draw things, mostly crazy critters and bizarre characters. I have little motivation to do big projects with them, though, so they mostly remain doodles in a miserable little pile.

Anyway I'm just gonna dump all my shit here since I was tired of imageshacking, along with some brief explanations of what the hell these people/things are.