Whimsical Fuckery

So I realized recently that most of my stuff has been archetypical fantasy stuff, which was fun to play around with but didn't really make it that interesting and was lacking my usual stupidity/humor/whimsy. So I decided to fix that. Also, shitty worldbuilding comic!

GOASTS

Finally colored that one smaller picture, mostly as a warm-up for coloring another, much more ambitious picture. I did try to fool around with shading a bit though. My tablet pen's working again, yay!

This was originally gonna be what happens in Fuga and Vale's first adventure in the tower, but I changed my mind because it was a bit too boring. Instead, their first adventure (which I'm finally making decent progress on writing) basically involves the two being hired by the King of Slime to fight a golem that's been roaming throughout the tower trying to exterminate all the monsters on the lower floors IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE.

Minor update

Don't have Sai or a working tablet pen anymore, so I'm fiddling with Gimp and coloring with a mouse to touch up and color shit. I'm unsure of this color scheme for the plant dragon, but oh well.

Ho, ho, ho

Felt like updating my blog at least one more time before the new year, so doodles it is. It wasn't just my general lack of productivity or slow rate of work that kept me from updating the past few months though: I had a drawing class this semester, and it basically just destroyed my desire to draw, ever. Now that it's over my will might return though.

Also, apologies for the smudges and quality. My laptop died and I'm on a Mac, and I have no idea what I should use for that since Sai doesn't work.

Chronicle doodlings

Been drawing a lot of stuff lately for Chronicle. Lately I've realized I don't draw my characters frequently enough, so I've just been drawing them doing THINGS. So here's some of the critters and characters for this little story thing.

Haven't started on the next chapter of it yet though; been occupying myself otherwise. I have a fun idea for it though!

Feed me, Seymour!

Blagh, long pause between updates again. I didn't have an idea for a good picture for the longest time, but I got one and have been working on it. Currently just beginning the coloring stage. In the meantime, I thought I might feed the blog with some sketches of stuff I've drawn recently or things I just never got around to scanning. Didn't bother to clean them up any.

Also, oddly enough I've actually whipped up two smaller pictures in the meantime as well that I'll probably color two, both featuring the dudes in the last picture.

MONEY, DEAR BOY

Firth needed money. Desperately, in fact. Though he already had a fair share of cash from being a traveling merchant, him and his "partner" (a giant bird with a knack for finding treasure) had recently landed themselves in a bit of a fix and now had an enormous fine to pay off for property damage. Unwilling to give up all his cash and live like a poor person for a while, he had decided to find another way to get enough cash to pay off his debt. Having heard legends of a unique creature capable of turning anything it touches into gold, him and his bird set out on a quest to find the legendary creature Midaros.

Surprisingly, they actually found it.......though that may not have been a good thing.

New picture/possible project

So I made another story-less picture of a monster I like, though there's a humen too. I've been drawing some mildly more realistic critters based off the anatomy of some animals lately and thinking of how humans could befriend/work with them, so I guess this means I have a possible picture project underway.

BONUS TIME: Experimental sketches of two pictures I'd like to make, both featuring a traveling merchant and his treasure-seeking bird:

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.

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.