I Had A Chat Recently With A Fellow Artist Named Xeno Who Was Complimenting My Human Ms. Tarantula Drawing

I had a chat recently with a fellow artist named Xeno who was complimenting my human Ms. Tarantula drawing of a few days ago and he asked if I could humanize his SkeleSpider (www.deviantart.com/dinofoxy5/a…).

The design is pretty cool and I felt it had quite a bit of personality already to work with, also I incursioned into leather painting and. . . I suck, I suck at making shiny leather, but I tried and that's what matters.

So yeah, this is the human version of SkeleSpider by Xeno (DA Dinofoxy5) and I'm satisfied with the result.

I wanted to draw something for @feefal 's #funguary challenge but I didn't have a lot of good fungal ideas, I've also been wanting to draw some of my OCs but most of them are in the "cloudy, vaguely formed thought" stage and I don't have much of a theme or costume or even basic color palette for most of them. So thinking about these two issues I remembered that decay exists as an extant form of life and suddenly my grim reaper designs have a lot more flavor to them.

This is Lorelei, the peaceful death. She's the one that comes for you if you're at peace with the fact of your inminent demise and uses her torch to guide souls into the afterlife. I wanted to give her a young look and a dress that would be about as appropriate in a funeral as in a celebration. Her raven is called Edgar and he's also a guide for spirits.

She has some bleeding teeth (fungus) on her hat because those fungus are actually beneficial for their hosts and has dead man's fingers (fungus) on her torch because those fungus grow from wood. She also has dead man's fingers (not fungus) because she's dead. . . Kind of.

Daymare, the dream pokemon. Daymare has learned to move within the dreaming and waking world at the same time and so she's technically always asleep. While they hide from people in the waking world to avoid scaring them they are a common sight in dreams within the Ionia region. Daymare trainers are said to never have nightmares again.

I told you she'd get more interesting later! For her design I originally just wanted to introduce a dreamcatcher motif for her staff but after going through a small research rabbit hole I learned that the dreamcatcher's origin is an imitation of a spider web, thought to offer protection from the "spider grandmother" to children (and not explicitly in dreams but in real life as well). And I just couldn't resist making Lillia a spider, I'm sorry. It's just so fitting too, Lillia is shy and afraid of nightmares both in dreams and in the real world while her evolution takes that nightmare concept and turns it into something protective, she's a Daymare, even if she kind of looks like a nightmare at first glance. Here's a version without the stats: https://www.deviantart.com/rantingrando/art/Pokemonized-LoL-Daymare-990071841

Fungi: "You cannot kill me in a way that matters."

Root rot! Primary killer of all my houseplants. It’s caused by overwatering and fungi growth (everything always comes back to fungi)

This guy is Pequod, the Metamolder

I've been following @n0rtist 's stema region ( https://www.youtube.com/@n0rtist ) for a while and I wanted to draw one of his designs. This is my rendition of Metamolder. I liked the way metamolder's head protuberance looks like a pirate hat and the pirate hat in itself looks like a boat so I drew Pequod, the noble ship of the not-so-noble pirate gang led by the unnamed fella waving his sword at nothing over there. I also added a Levestress and some Lagomights on the ship since N0rt had the intention of making them the bad guy mons.

This is Miss Tarantula "Webs" from the Bad Guys movie. But with a few less legs. . . And hair. . . And also a little bit taller.

I think I'm finally done with my involuntary hiatus and I watched The Bad Guys recently. Good movie, very funny, do recommend. Do not look up art about this lady though. You won't like what you'll find. . . Okay maybe you will, there's a lot of weirdos here but it's unlikely.

About the design I wanted to make her short, because she's canonically very tiny. Also that joke she makes "8 legs, 8 times the cardio". . . Yeah, that and the leg warmer-like color scheme in her legs inspired a lot in this design. I did struggle with the skin color, I wanted to paint her more red-ish than orange-ish or yellow-ish but I ended up going with brown because otherwise the red was a little overwhelming. Also brown skin with red/orange hair is a BEAUTIFUL color combination and I wish it was used more frecuently.

I may draw the rest of the gang soon enough, or I may take another 5 months break, I'm not quite sure.