Jetpack! Hyphen! Island!

this was a piece for 'Artfigight', it's notyoursagittarius-art‘s shark person, Mako

"Duck team" the protagonists from the second Exandria season of the podcast "Not Another DnD Podcast, in their starting looks

Paetina Glenbottle’s Had a child, and her child has had a child. You can have it all!

Paetina’s sorcerer collared pantsuit sounded like a fun piece of costume to figure out. She is an antagonist from "Not Another DnD podcast

snarklyn‘s feral sea-goblin warlock for artfight

kingthreshie-official‘s character from Artfight

An alchemist, she’s getting some books signed and is nervous

a centaur paladin

so this one was rolled up in a character generator. the trick was figuring out how a dragonborn character could have any hair color, as they are usually pretty lizardy, so I ended up doing a sort of archaeopteryx thing.all together it was a pretty fun randomly generated character tho.

some kinda drow swamp wizard? I would think that long robes are the wrong choice, clothes wise for wetlands, but I don’t even know how to cast a spell, so what do I know?

Random Encounter: Wretched Cobbler

A creature made of two very different kinds of magic. It’s machinations are beyond the comprehension of mankind, but whatever they are involve making a lot of shoes overnight

The thing about Ania is, she is not actually a rogue. she works in a used book store, and is into urban spelunking, and minutes after finding this pike that is not sized for her, a series of misunderstandings and wanting to avoid interpersonal conflict got her added to an adventure party in what turns out was a dungeon? now she’s way too far in to stop the lie, she’s taken time from work off to go off on this big quest, and she cannot imagine this ending any way other than disaster.

Frenzo Singalong is a character I’ve done on here before, but I wanted to do a second pass on his design. He’s a neutral good bard who’s listed race is “nightmare clown”. he left Manic, the constantly shifting tent city that is the physical embodiment of people’s fears and secrets, because he got it into his head that he’s a traveling hero.

Frenzo is, by the way, absolutely an homage/riff on/me desperately imitating @connorricks, who’s space clown stuff is my favorite thing ever

Mahogan Gold-Have is a dwarven adventurer that the rest of the party actually met by themselves in a dungeon, funnily enough. If asked, they’d have to say their favorite things are digging for treasure, being loud in tunnels, and going into dungeons to murder the monsters they find in there!

the first one of these I did

mermay, messing with the ‘fish/woman’ percentages

Mermay, a lil one

Mermay! Sunfish Mermaid

Mermay! C Y B E R M A I D ! She traded her voice to a sea witch in exchange for her choice of bodymods, as is custom.

Mermay! the Clownfish Mermaid lives in between the fingers of a massive Hands Buzzer on the floor of the Lookin Sea. they lure sailors to their deaths by saying just the set up to a joke, driving them to crash into rocks in order to get the punchline

Mermay! Breakthroughs in science and aetheriobiotechnology are constantly changing how we interact with the world. a single colony of invertibral micromerms can be cultivated to reliably and produce mass, low grade wishes on a scale far outweighing  the output of talking trout farms, the current industry standard.which is to say nothing of ethical ramifications

Mermay! the thing with setting out to do an Angler Frogfish mermaid is it’s basically already a fish but with arms so it’s really halfway there already

Mermay! Coral Darren-Parker lives in the city where she’s working on her cinematography degree. besides school and work, Monday-Wednesday-Friday, she gets an hour of swimming laps in, and two hours on weekends. 

this closed ass crabshack is the funniest goddamn thing she’s seen all week

Mermay! Mermime? sort of a follow up to the clownfish mermaid, and even more so is just me blatantly trying to ape @connorricks stuff (although I broke a rule by sticking colors on it)

Mermay! hey, it’s that one Leech mermaid Malory, your best friend! she got some drinks from one of the water front bars for you guys, make sure you take the right one tho. you don’t want hers.

Mermay!

she is the beast between terror and respect, a creature of the unfathomable depths of the ocean, a name that if it is to be spoken, is only ever said in hushed whispers. But when the tide turns against you, when there’s blood in the water and the sharks are circling, when you have no other choice, you call upon… The Sea Witch!

For fun, a palette swap of both facepaint street performer based mermaids

Day 1: Burrower

Duggerron is awoken by loud, surface level developments, and emerges to see what’s going on. Usually he’ll poke around until he accidentally breaks something that seems important, and then he’ll try to leave before anyone notices. To date it hasn’t worked out.

Day 2: Acidic

it’s one thing if your work or home are destroyed by, like  a fire-breathing dinosaur. But when Strawberry-Lemonape levels a city block with one of it’s Brute-Punches, it just adds insult to injury

Day three: Multiple Heads

Super-Robo-Bio-Nightmare is not, per se, a giant robot so much as a sort of ‘meat voltron’. Maybe it’s what happens if you want to build a megazord but you have genetic engeneering not robotics. Or maybe it’s an unfortunate ‘the blue fairy’ scenario. Either way, hopefully it doesn’t have pilots. that’d be gross.

Day four: Magic

Here comes Oopsy Caboodle/ your all time biggest fan!

When a Friend indeed’s a friend in need/he’s here to lend a hand

Here comes Oopsy Caboodle/ your number one oldest pal!

come rain or sun or sleet or hail, he’s here starting right now

oh oh kids get ready/ he’s almost on his way!

all the people scream, all the people say:

three chears! for Oooooopsy caboodle! 

-That awful song that plays out of every speaker incessantly every time this terrible clown thing wrecks the city

Day Five: Aquatic

Jumbo-Shrimp just crawled out of the ocean, and he’s just itching for a fight. he’ll fight anyone, he’ll fight you! He’ll fight himself! he’s not afraid!

I figure, like at least most animal based kaiju, Jumbo at best sort of resembles actual shrimp

Hermarchus Tower would very much like to be left alone, please

I wanted to do a stick bug kaiju, or more to the point, something occupying the equivalent niche in the ‘giant super powered monsters that fight each other’ ecosystem

Bonus Kaiju: Herakles Beetle

a bonus large monster! he’s still got most of his armor, which is good ‘cause it’s his bones. It’s gonna get unpleasant by the end of the movie

Day 7: Yokai

Gashadokuro  are giant skeletons made of regular skeletons, sometimes they drink blood? this one is Flint Marko-ing it up something feirce

Day 8: tentacles

Science tells us that Mana War has no brain, and wanders in and out of the ocean at random. If it seems drawn towards a specific company’s interests or properties, that has to be coincidence 

Day 10: Mammalian

When Calamitee: Destroyer-King of the Wetlands rises from the marsh to enact his gentle wrath upon the city, everyone gets a little worried. usually animal control and the fire department are able to corral him back into his habitat, but last year he tried to climb the Anderson building and could have really hurt himself

Day 11: Baby

They’re out on a stroll.

Day 12: Vegetation

“After all this time I’ve found you. Locked away in little prisons of isolation and meat. Come, do not be afraid; let me into your heart. Let me into your lungs. Breath deeply and we can be a Family again.”

Day 13: Abomination

Alien DNA! recovered from a crash site it was regrown and run through an Untested Reanimation Procedure! little could anyone guess that a Teleportation Experiment(!) would have the lasting repercussions it did or that a fateful Bolt of Lightning would give the computer-run aspect of the project a mind of it’s own! Now, mankind must face the hubris of playing several gods at once as Every Scientist’s Monster roams the city!

Day One: Visibly Undead

Barron Dépérir is usually flanked by a handful of attendants, two of which are pictured here. The Barron is far too fragile to vampire himself, hence his reliance on these doctor types

Day two: Futuristic

This guy’s called Nosferobotu, I’m really pleased with how this design came out. this design began it’s life as a name and vague silhouette attached to a parody of dr. who villains, but I really enjoy the idea of a group of vampires with a loose enough definition of what that is that one of ‘em’s a big robot and it’s never addressed

for day 3 I went with a design very loosely based off the silent movie ‘The Bat’, about a devious killer in what would retroactively become an off brand batman costume.

Day 4: Demon

It’s maybe worth saying this ones super not to scale with the other’s I’ve done so far, he’s a little guy

DAY 2 BONUS(!): IN GLORIOUS TECHNICOLOR

I’m doing these in black and white, but I wanted to do this guy in color for fun. Nosferobotu is largely a riff on classic dr who and it’s contemporaries, so I wanted to do both the ways it can go when those guys jump from black-and-white into color media. (remember when the daleks were all these bright colored toy car looking guys for like an ark?) anyway here’s two different versions of this guy. for what it’s worth, (very little) these aren’t ‘canon’ whatever that means here

Day 5 (I know):  Lycanthropic

It’s ya girl Claudia! she’s got two big things going on with her right now: A real unfortunate combination of medical complications, and this thing where if she stops breathing she changes almost instantly into this 18 foot monstrosity that exclusively eats people, so y’know, there’s that

Day 6: Aquatic

The Niebla Islands Mermaid latches on to a host and over  the course of two or three months drains them of every fluid, leaving a papery corpse. a fun aside, the hosts aren’t aware this is happening.

Day 7: Clown

It’s Birthdays the Clown, your Fun-time Favorite Friend!™

Day 8: monstrous

Viscount Catacomb rules the hordes of feral children roaming the undercity. they say all children will answer to his song.

The Viscount is an ancient thing hiding from the sun surrounded by thralls, so I’m at about 80% that I can pull off calling this a vampire

Day 9: plant

I was going for an ‘upsetting fairy magic’ feel on this one.

Day 10: classic

Here’s Julian Norville-August Wentworth the Third. He’s a Dracula.

Day 11: Reptile

so a lot of these so far have come off as at least a one off villain or a level boss, not this guy though. no way he’s self employed. clearly a goon or henchman of some kind

Day 12: nature

I’ve already done a rabbid woods vampire so here’s a fancy woods vampire

Day 13: uncanny Valley

a nosferatu. sort of a ‘hairless cat’ thing 

Day 14(?): Alien

BEHOLD!! CARNATE THE UNDIEING- A BEING FROM THE EDGE OF SPACE AND THE EDGE OF TIME-APROACHES!! BUT WHO IS HE?? BUT WHAT IS HE?? SOON HIS DARK MACHINATIONS WILL UNFOLD, BUT HOW?? AND WHY??

I thought it would be fun to try to do a kirby type thing, like a new-gods dracula

Day 15: Animal

Alexandria is the keeper of the secret library, she’s one of the more timid vamps I’ve done so far. As a fun bit tomorrow’s entry, Day 16: Elemental is also her, but different.

Day 16: Elemental

hey look, It’s Alexandria again! don’t let that smile fool you, she has literally never been more upset.

Day 17: Sexy

I thought it’d be funny if there was your standard fancy vampire, and one time you see them at like, eight AM on a tuesday and they’re not at all put together, sooo that’s what I did

Day 18: Disguised

And we’re back! He has the combined powers of a vampire and professional wrestling.

Day 19: chupacabra

Ugh, look at this awful little spiney man. put a shirt on, guy

Day 20: Artificial

Friends, you need an undead army. you know you do. But zombies are overplayed and mummies are expensive. you want vampires. Now I hear your concerns, maybe you don’t have the resources or manpower for a horde of vampires. Well let me put you to ease, your undead army is one purchase away. Our patented Dracula Printer will get you more vamps than you can count™ without that messy ‘turning’ period. 

will there be a dip in quality of vampire? maybe, but sheer numbers* will more than make up for any little machine errors.

*It is difficult if not impossible to estimate the exact amount of draculas printed. maybe go by poundage or gallons?

Day 21: Vegetarian

Professor Langstrom Everett Mills was renowned for his methods in the temperance movement before making the somewhat inexplicable jump to mysticism. He wrote extensively about vampirism, drawing heavy parallels between those afflicted and the addicts he had been renowned for treating. 

He claimed that in his research he had devised a two part supplement to slate the bloodthirst of the vampire. the first part was a formula suspended in a dehydrated agitated glucose, the second component was a multigrain pellet containing a spice mixture (mostly south american cocoa bean). in order to match the calcium levels of human blood, these components were taken together with milk.

while he claimed success with his program, it was widely panned in most demonology circles, and is the source of his unfortunate nickname.

(He's Count Chocula, is the joke)

Day 22: bizarre

It’s ‘Vlad Tepitch’ the mascot for the Kansas City Impalers! It’s worth noting that ‘the Kansas city Impalers’ is not a real sports team. ‘Vlad Tepitch’ has a jumbotron based thrall. those fangs are foam rubber and felt, but he absolutely sucks blood. he also has one of those little carts with a mounted t-shirt cannon, but that’s largely inconsequential. the t-shirts are from a bank.

Bonus vamp!: a soft boy

the origin of this vampire design is I misread a prompt and than very loosely did something that doesn’t really match that fake prompt so all around a misfire, this one.

Day 23: Penanggalan

I’ve been putting blurbs under these, but I don’t have much to say here. she’s got a small intestine for an arm. 

Day 24: Silly

This is T. Racula, the title character from a pitch for a syfy channel style ‘dumb high concept monster movie’ that is 90% a joke, but that I would absolutely write. if you are at all curious, it’d go as close to the novel Bram Stoker’s Dracula as possible, only he’s a two story tall dinosaur the whole time. maybe he turns into a pterodactyl instead of a bat, i dunno, details.

In the sequels he fights Frenkenceritops, werewoolymamoth, and some sort of dinosaur invisible man

Day 25: Insectoid

An assassin bug stabs it’s specialized mouthparts into the bodies of it’s prey, and pumps them full of stomach acid, than slurps up the noxious slurry of organs and bile.

Mr. Smoothie, owner and purveyor of the seventeen ‘Mr. Smoothie’s’ blended drink restaurants in the bi-county area, is a pillar of the community. he’s very personable, but if you don’t know him you’ve seen him around. Anyone in town will point him out as the man with a very distinctive hat.

Day 26: Puppet

evil puppets are my jam, and I may go back and do that, but I thought it’d be fun to try to do like an imprinting type thing like when people are working with animals? this one builds off of three earlier vampires instead of being it’s own thing, so there’s that.

(the scientist’s from number one, the bat creatures are based on the lycanthrope vampire and the machinery has some of that distilled artificial dracula in there)

Day 27: Wizard

I was of two minds of how I wanted to do this, so I did ‘em both. which took longer than a day. but oh well. anyway, the point is wizards are great

Day 28: Mutant

hey look, it’s most of my design instincts for ‘vampire monster’ at once! if they were wearing a victorian gentleman’s hat, it would be all of them. 

maybe, this is what you get if those gelatinous synthetic vampires try to turn someone, or if somebody drinks some of that semiliquid dracula. or maybe, this is just what being a vampire ended up being for them. some of the other vampires on here are sprouting branches or are pretend robots, so who’s to say

Day 29: Abstract

so for abstract, I wanted to do a ‘dead people become pretty monsters that drain life from the living’ in as streamlined a way as possible. so what that ended up bei9ng is a living crystal hivemind that is constantly sapping strength from its environs. These guys start of as crystaly goblin things, and gradually the flesh slops of or calcifies into evil flying diamond

Day 30(!): Yara-Ma-Yha-Who

what a gross monster, it’s like if a monkey was a pitcher plant. anyway, it’s maybe worth pointing out that even though I’m doing these in black and white, this guy’d be bright red in color.

A fan design for the creature from "the Autopsy", an episode of Trevor Henderson's podcast "The Mayfair Watcher's society"