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Hi-Res Mortasheen, RAW ART FILE DOWNLOAD and concept notes: Scumbrella

Added 2020-06-27 05:59:23 +0000 UTC

This monster was actually drawn with a very different, backwards method from usual; I did the colors first, without any line art, then I added lines after the fact with a quick "cheat" method. This actually allowed me to draw the spines, claws and ribs of the umbrella with much more precision than if I had outlined them first and then filled them in!

For the first time, I've also attached the actual working file for this monster. If you have paint tool sai or paint shop pro, you can open it and see how the different layers and shading effects work!

Scumbrella was actually first conceived as a joker class monster, and it was a brain-sucking parasite called the Dumbrella. While I still like that a lot, a more ferocious storm-themed acid-rain monster just felt more tempting for me to do. If I ever decide to do "Dumbrella" anyway, it'll feel odd to have two unrelated umbrella pun monsters, so then I'd be tempted to rationalize it by making it a series of them for every single monster class, and that would be over a dozen umbrella puns to figure out! We can't have that!!!

I tried to give this monster a slinking, serpentine pose where the open part of the umbrella would feel like a "mouth" and the spinal proboscis like a "tongue," but it's also readable like the spine is a tail, which is intentional. A squid similarly has a debatable "front and back end" and I wanted this to feel a little squiddy.