awfulhospital

Final card design

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 ...

Fakemon - ugly stink-wart

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 ...

Scrapped Wormbrains

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 somethi...

Bonus Arthropoid - Dobsonfly

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, ar...

Some semifinal monsters

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 ...

Secret thing

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 an...

Secret thing doodles

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 Sil...

Vampire - the Toyol

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 summ...

Thanks for another month!

I've had trouble uploading to Patreon during the day, but you can see last month's second Mortasheen monster here:

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Yara-ma-ya-who

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 ...

Buzzilisk

http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/buzzilisk.htm

The upgrade to Infestoad evolved into its own mon...

Balmer's Character Files - You

Third upload attempt, come on patreon!

More monster concepts

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 id...

Petrifeyes

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 an...

Bonus Arthropoid - Water Boatman

http://bogleech.com/mortasheen/arth-waterboatman.htm

The real-world insect produces the loudes...

Crystal Catacombs Ice Boss

Another one I did for the game "Crystal Catacombs," based closely on the in-game sprite, though I embellished the visible inner tissues!

Vampire - Jaracaca

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 fo...

Balmer's Character Files - WORMS

WORMS!!!!!!!

Bonus Arthropoid - Jumping Bristletail

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. ...

Early Professor Lithovermus

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 ...

Final Eyechedelic

http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/eyechedelic.htm

Just a tiny bit different from the earlier ar...

Eyechedelic sketches

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 th...

Eyechedelic

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 tonigh...

Hagonizer

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 m...

Old concept - Cheshire Snake

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.

The Sinister Slithering Sliceman

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 encoun...

Phage's office concept

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 ...

Awful Hospital Sketches: Babyvision

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.

Early Maggie sprites

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.

Rotogoyle sketch

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 im...