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Apocalocust

This isn't a weekly Arthropoid (we're moving this month, so time is flying by hectically) but an unused drawing from years ago. I just didn't quite like how it turned out enough to use this design. The idea was a grasshopper monster who can shift into a "berserk" mode, playing off how locusts are j...

REALLY early sketches! Maybe I should've kept Phleboto's plunger/handle thing

Mortasheen - Ko-Ax

A little late, and can be considered the second new species for April. Ko-Ax is a larger relative of Brekekekex, the name has the same origin, and it borrows slightly more of its design from the flying saucers seen in the 60's War of the Worlds. I wound up scrapping its arthropod-like body from th...

Mortasheen - Brekekekex

Forgot to put this on Patreon as well as tumblr! Brekekekex is a living alien "mecha" borrowing aspects of a War of the World's martian (from the 60's film adaptation), a giant frog head, a pop-eyed goldfish and Evangelion angels. Its name is a sound frogs make, according to a Greek poem.

Phage's files: E.M. Balmer

Bonus Arthropoid: Stalk-eyed Fly

Stalk-eyed flies (Diopsidae) are tropical insects that feed mostly on fallen fruits. Females select males according to the length of their eye stalks, and males will "joust" for attention by comparing the width of their eyes with one another. While the males with the longest stalks can be reproduct...

Bonus Arthropoid: Dust Mite

A little bunny-like. A dust bunny!

E.M. BALMER'S BLOG

I said earlier that Balmer's blog might contain spoilers, but instead I've just cut them out and will update it with further stuff as we go along in the corpse world. Unlike other character journals it's written by two characters, even though that's just because Balmer is incompetent.

Dr. Phage's Files: Oozing Skull

Expanded monster lore: Chainsaw Kid

Expanded write-ups are still in an experimental stage. Is this a good set of "categories?" Is the categorized information even a good idea? "Tactical mechanisms" is just a final run-down of notable abilities, whether or not they were already explained. I guess it can be redundant, but it might be c...

Awful Hospital monster doodles (spoiler?)

There's a concept I had early on in designing Awful Hospital that I didn't end up using, but I still might, so you can consider this spoilerish. I thought it would be interesting to have a "broken" hospital room. You could pass through it to another, and another, repeating rooms that slowly lose th...

Mortasheen Sketch Page

These are almost two years old, and you can see what became "Streptile" on the right. I'm not sure what I was going for with the weird thing that looks part Guilala, part Kanegon, but I still like it and may still find a use for it.

Early Staph doodle

Dr. Staph was planned for a long time, and the first color drawing of her was this quick, freehand doodle to see if I really liked drawing with the pixel pen. She's changed only slightly!

Stuff soon!

April's phage files and character journal are minor Awful Hospital spoilers, sort of, so they're going to be held off until a bit towards the end of the month, but now we've reached the point where I am to draw two colored monsters and two bug monster sketches, too. Plus I'm working on another patr...

Engulper

A monster based on Aditya's suggestions turned out fairly easy to get done a little faster than usual, anything I can draw like a salamander seems to go smoothly. http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/engulper.htm

More sketches of those alien things. These might maybe be final designs

PROBLEM SOLVED

Taking opinions into consideration, two of the velvet worms have been merged into one concept with an adorable velvet worm head on an unexpectedly terrifying body. The remaining two designs have been reworked into an unconventional octopus-man (his mouth is on his arm!) and a hagfish-man. Being hum...

Velvet Worms

Help I have four possible designs for a Velvet Worm monster and I like them all equally Top left: I thought a creepy tapir/elephant-like vibe would be cool, and a bit of a nod to the fact that these animals are related to Opabinia. I thought a cute face on the end of the "trunk" would be cool with ...

Mortasheen - Tyrannitoma

The colors kind of turned out a little too messy. Also will I ever stop coloring things in shades of mauve? http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/tyrannitoma.htm

Bonus Arthropoid - Argulus

Argulus are "fish lice," actually bloodsucking crustaceans with a pair of huge ventral suckers!

Bonus Arthropoid - Proturan

Speed sketch of a Proturan Arthropoid. The Protura are an obscure, enigmatic and very tiny arthropod group, once categorized as insects, but now considered unique! I'll do one of these every week if we get to the next milestone.

SECRET Mortasheen sketches!

I dunno what happened, but suddenly everything I doodled started looking exactly the way I wanted it to turn out. I was IN THE ZONE I guess. Anyone want one of these for this month's monster, or the alien invaders from earlier? The upper right monster is an idea I've kicked around for years; the t...

Mortasheen - Gindrake

Everboundvenvel suggested a few ideas and I wanted to draw a ginger plant monster the most. I'll write a proper page for it soon but I figure the flowers use a dangerous scream to protect their little root friends.

Mortasheen sketches - invaders!

I've had an idea for a while to have a completely harmless "unknown" class monster - cute, mouse-sized little alien guys - but a series of bioconstruct monsters they designed to give themselves a fighting edge in the horrible world they've found themselves in. These are pretty early designs for the...

An old thing I've never shared - I was almost commissioned to illustrate some organisms for a scientific book, but, I couldn't quite make them "photoreal" enough to match the art they already had. All I got done was this larval gordian worm. This is the thing that makes crickets drown themselves! T...

Character Journal: Spleonard Spleenus

Mortasheen - Abathrael

An "angelic" monster as requested by Johann!

I've had sketches of this horrible koala-like monster for years. I like it, but I don't know what to do with it exactly. I don't necessarily want to tie it in with actual Koalas, and keep thinking of it as a sugar-loving monster.

an older doodle of what became Neuroculus; it would have flew through the air at one time but now I kinda like it as a walking creature.

Flysore sketches!