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*sighs heavily and updates file named "Mermay 2025" to "Mermay 2026"*
#not art#next year definitely for sure#i had such fun prompts lined up but alas.#it's been almost a month since my last wrist surgery and that's just. not enough time.
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Gave into the temptation of doodling out one of the creatures that has been haunting me, and also the temptation of the case of coloring pencils that have been lying on my shelf. Didn't quite achieve what I was going for, coloring-wise, but tbf I never use pencils so doing shiny skin & iridescence was probably biting off more than I could chew anyway.
#dark art#colored pencils#pencil#the anatomy is also kind of scuffed but hey. it's a concept drawing not a finished piece of art#even if it looks like it has a blue stripe down its side rather than being iridescent. ah well.
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Febumon day 28, "tardigrades". Last line left to draw, and a very belated realization that they're known as water bears, not space bears like I thought. Which makes a lot of sense because that's pretty much what we call them in Dutch. Oh well, the space theme still makes (some) sense with their resilience and stuff.
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Febumon day 27, "vampire mosquitos". Instead of taking the obvious route and basing my vampire monsters on bats, I made them mosquitos instead. Because obviously I needed more bugs in the line-up.
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Febumon day 26, "fire jackalopes". Starting as a rabbit and becoming increasingly hare-like, these guys are the last line of preexisting designs I have for this project. Fun, though.
#febumon#dark art#I shuffled around some of their attributes to make it a smoother transition to the fourth stage. and to tone down said fourth stage.
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Febumon day 25, "ore pangolins". I actually have these in my files as "lava lamp pangolins" but at some point I added some rocky pre-evolutions to the line and just... didn't update their name. I guess.
#dark art#febumon#the Ultimate doesn't look like much of an upgrade. hm. need to play around with them more#also because the two rocky stages don't really look like Metal types. oh well it was a good first attempt.
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Febumon day 24, "multi-head dogs". Probably not the most creative idea, to go from dog to orthrus to cerberus, but it is a fun one!
#dark art#febumon#from here on out it's all 3 and 4 stages btw. the nudibranch aqua dog thing was the last 2 stage.
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Febumon day 23, "nudibranch dogs". Made the kind of spontaneous decision to make the 'cape' on the Evolved stage longer than the Basic instead of shorter like I had planned, and I'm not sure how I'm feeling about it...
#dark art#febumon#they're based on an old design I did. trying to root them into something semi-real instead of just. vibes.#also added the first stage. since it was a stand-alone design.
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Febumon day 22, "cable tangle rat king". Another line where I had only the basic concept, and no idea how to convey it, let alone how to break it down into separate evolutionary stages. Also wow this was entirely too many things to draw, I really lost the plot on some of these rats.
#febumon#dark art#I like the concept of the computer mice and the massive tangle. but idk about the rest#also the fluff. should not have gone for the fluff I think.
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Febumon day 21, "Time Trio - Present". Last legendary, and it's the one with the least settled design of all six. While Past and Future had older designs I liked, I had nothing of the sort for Present. I also had a hard time picking animals to base it on. But, overall, I am kinda digging where this ended up.
#febumon#dark art#also I wanted it with purple glow but I had no purple pens so I used copics. lmao.#I definitely need to play around with its colors. we'll see where it ends up.#also I just realized that I didn't end up putting wings on it. whoops. need to tweak that.#it's part dodo tho so they're small wings. would help fill up its back I guess
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Febumon day 20, "roadkill badgers". An older line whose designs remain basically unaltered, but I keep making small tweaks to their shapes and proportions. Just can't settle on them. >.>
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Febumon day 19, "assorted single-stages #2". The second set of unrelated single-stages slapped together on one page. One is a bunch of crystals held together by a spirit, the other is a hummingbird with a trumpet for a beak. Fun times!
#febumon#dark art#the crystals are supposed to be oriented upright (bar the angled eye crystals) but. straight lines are hard.#i'll probably put a glowy 'pupil' in the eye crystals to make them more clear. also with the rest straighter that should also read better#you know what also would've helped? coloring the inside of the trumpet. oh well.
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Febumon day 18, "iceberg teeth". Another line of object-based monsters, and another line I (for some reason) drew super tiny. Boo. I definitely need to play around with their colors (and the design of the Advanced, at least) to get them to convey their typing correctly, but I do think the Basic turned out kind of fun.
#dark art#febumon#shapes. my greatest enemy.#also having the Evolved one as the only one with smooth gums. maybe not great. could probably smooth them out on the Advanced also
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Febumon day 17, "bipedal running dragons" / "runner wyverns". The Advanced stage is technically a recycled design (with some minor tweaks) but the rest are all new to fill in its evolutionary line. I think they're pretty fun!
#febumon#dark art#Evolved stage could use longer legs but that was literally the edge of the paper. so.#also realized today that the black pen I'm using for the text & patterns is genuinely lighter than the old one. boo.
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Febumon day 16, "assorted single-stages #1". I had four regular single-stages left to draw this month, so I combined them in two sets of two to try and fit the last lines within this month. These are "reversed skeleton", a ghostly creature who seems to have been flipped upside down upon animation, and "cockatrice gargoyle", a cockatrice-shaped gargoyle who spits flammable oil instead of water.
#febumon#dark art#i intentionally grouped them to have as few similarities as possible#the other two have one more bird and one more stone-based. so they overlapped with cockatrice here.
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Febumon day 15, "gingerbread baba yaga hut". Deciding to add (more) object-based monsters is all fun and games until you have to freehand draw a house. Also drew these really tiny for no good reason which didn't help with keeping the detail readable.
#febumon#dark art#still haven't decided on a secondary type for these guys either.#will probably go with Earth. since their brown gingerbread color will be pretty earth-y
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Febumon day 14, "golden eagles". I didn't think to keep a specific line apart for Valentine's day today, but RNG got me the third and final starter set, which is at least somewhat appropriate. Maybe.
Anyway, I think I like these best of the three starter sets (so far anyway). Which might be because I actually had some idea of how these would progress & change along the way, instead of just "it's a sheep for 4 stages".
#febumon#dark art#still needs some more reworking tho. gotta push dem shapes more.#also make them more obviously Light type and more obviously NOT Air.
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