I decided the boxes to fill in your own date weren't really necessary; the simpler the better.
This monster's original concept was that you'd have to defeat it by pickling it in a jar, but then I though it'd be more interesting to freeze it, and then with the licking theme, why not go all the ...
2015-09-13 08:50:39 +0000 UTC View Post
It's similar to some existing Mortasheen monsters, but this was an idea I had for a pokemon whose whole theme would be "grossness." There aren't a lot of pokemon canonically reviled by humans, yet in the real world we have a lot of animals people find ugly and creepy.
I figured this little guy...
2015-09-13 08:09:16 +0000 UTC View Post
They felt redundant with some other monsters, so I never used these two. The designs didn't feel quite "there" yet anyhow, though I still like the flesh-flower-nest, I'll probably use that for something sooner or later.
Dobsonflies are large, intimidating flying insects that often freak people the heck out, especially the males, who have incredibly long, tweezer-like mandibles.
The male's mandibles, however, are much too weak to cause any harm, used only to attract females and gently hold them during mating. ...
2015-09-13 08:00:36 +0000 UTC View Post
The working title for the printable game thing is "Nightmare Fright Zone" but it's probably going to change. An even weirder, earlier one was "Homonculous Terror Party."
Some ideas I had for ways to defeat these monsters include things like:
-Placing the monster in the ...
2015-09-12 00:31:35 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a mockup (or maybe it'll just be the final style) for a printable Halloween game I might debut in a couple days.
It's like a scavenger hunt. One player would print the monsters and hide them around another player's home, and that player would have to find them, then defeat them ...
2015-09-11 07:37:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I've had a heck of a time coming up with design themes for this thing I'm working on...I don't want it to feel too much like a rehash of my other stuff, you know? I think I'm aiming a little for a Silent Hill parody
Another secret vampire I illustrated a couple years ago for the vampire book project!
The Toyol is a Malaysian spirit said to be the ghost of an aborted or miscarried fetus, which is summoned and enslaved by a magician in order to break into people's houses and steal money.
2015-09-09 06:46:33 +0000 UTC
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I've had trouble uploading to Patreon during the day, but you can see last month's second Mortasheen monster here:
http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/dynaphyte.htm
This month I'm launching somethin...
Another illustration for the book of vampires, even if this Australian monster isn't actually undead or anything.
I got sick, so I'm a little too weak and headachey to finish the rest of this month's new art (a Mortasheen and a journal are due!), but I'll try to make up for it with spec...
2015-08-30 05:05:40 +0000 UTC View Post
http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/buzzilisk.htm
The upgrade to Infestoad evolved into its own monster, but still replaces Infestoad since they're still more or less the same thing.
Third upload attempt, come on patreon!
After browsing a huge number of kaiju and kaijin I was inspired to do some bipeds with powers that aren't too incredibly out-there.
I dunno if I'll use the gumby-like one. It's an idea I like, but it's already evolving into other ideas in my head.
Something I spontaneously sketched yesterday. First I was doodling a thing with big, warty hands, then the warts turned into eyes, then I thought it should have an otherwise eyeless body. Might ink and color the design as-is sometime.
http://bogleech.com/mortasheen/arth-waterboatman.htm
The real-world insect produces the loudest sound of any animal just by rubbing its penis against itself. I tried to put it tactfully, since M...
2015-08-19 08:30:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Another one I did for the game "Crystal Catacombs," based closely on the in-game sprite, though I embellished the visible inner tissues!
Patrons only - from the WIP vampires book, the Jaracacas is a mythological vampire from Brazil taking the form of a snake, which feeds on human milk instead of blood.
The monster looks for a nursing infant, turns invisible, shoves the infant aside, and puts the end of its tail in the ba...
2015-08-18 08:20:48 +0000 UTC View Post
These silverfish-like insects are pretty common, especially where I grew up. I've tried multiple times in my life to raise them but they always die in captivity, no matter what conditions I simulate. Mysterious!
The first design and drawing of our new Bookworm friend(?) was rather hasty, and completely freehand with no sketch or real planning.
I didn't quite like the result, and redid him as you can now see in Awful Hospital:
http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/eyechedelic.htm
Just a tiny bit different from the earlier art.
I drew these spontaneously the other night, and within hours, I'd finalized a new monster. It's never gone that quickly before, but I guess this one just seemed so cute and fun.
I love things that invoke a particular animal without actually being related to that animal - I'm not sure wh...
2015-07-30 15:05:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This monster went from a rough idea to a sketch to a final, color drawing in only a few hours, kind of a record, though maybe I rushed it. I might work on it some more when I get up again later tonight.
I'm especially having a hard time coming up with its main powers. I've got too many ...
2015-07-29 09:56:23 +0000 UTC View Post
The hagfish/human hybrid I sketched the other month has been finalized and joins other fish-people among the Vampire Spawn.
I settled on this out of three possible color schemes for its main image. Here's the other two and its bio page:
A Mortasheen monster I never took any further, maybe it felt too similar to a Tim Burton sandworm. I guess it would have had invisibility powers.
Here's an "enemy monster" I drew for Awful Hospital before it even officially began, and before I had any idea if or how I'd integrate "battles."
I'm still not sure if we'll get to encounter the SSS or not.
It's actually in the anatomical pose where one palm is facing o...
2015-07-22 14:18:45 +0000 UTC View Post
An early sketch of Dr. Phage's big, luxurious office.
There's even a color version I did, but my vision of this room has changed quite a bit since. We saw a snippet of it, but that won't be the version our protagonist sees, either!
The original sketches of your son's distorted memories were a little more over-the-top in a couple places. I wound up not using the top right one at all.
Originally, Maggie in Awful Hospital was going to have wizardly garb...made from your tissues!
Maybe she'll still put on her robe and wizard hat for a special occasion.
A doodle of Rotogoyle with a lankier and more developed body, which was kind of always the intention...but I used to actually draw Mortasheen monsters without an initial sketch, RUN OUT OF ROOM and improvise the rest of the monster smaller. Really.
