#critter's musings

[katrinthecat]

The second chance

After the explosion in Safe Heaven, half of the kids survived and now the player, Dowie, Mouse Muse - ex Catnap's assistant - and Kissy Missy have to make their final push for freedom

[bbaked-beans]

kendal yeaaaaaa!!

cleaning up an aaaaaancient sketch (ancient as in 2 years old haha. ha)

anyway @comicaurora

[shivroy]

kendalling in oil

[sparklingcutepaw]

[musingmemories]

“That you are holding is my Guinea pig.”

[quartarcade]

Critter tilts their head and narrows their eyes. The fuck is a father???

[asheanon]

Just a fluffy little lad. But a wee drat (dragon cat.)

[team-polaris]

Making Elijah and Ruth PMD ocs is really fun bc they're also from my books i'm writing so I can write them with a bit more intention than some of the newer characters like Midnight. However, I was journaling and I just wrote this and. FUCK now I gotta make it into a little snippet.

"After all, Elijah and Ruth were out (in the search party) looking for Theo when she disappeared."

So, for all two of you that follows my writeblr that means TALIESIN AND THEO ARE COMING INTO THE PMD VERSE TOO.

OOOO since Elijah, Ruth and Taliesin are in a polycule perhaps they can mirror future crew??

[katrinthecat]

Family is:

[bravoalmara-blog]

“Scan Man” Drawn in Procreate. Single Reference. Dry brush.

I miss Sam in the current campaign so much 🥺

[sosadraws]

SOSA I’ve got a fun question but who/what are your muses and/or inspirations when it comes to your style? Like are there any specific artists or pieces of media that you can say heavily influenced your arts/you want to take influence from?

HI Lynx, I LOVE this question! Sorry for the wait, but first I had to gather enough visual references and gather my thoughts so I wouldn't be fangirling all the way around, sorry 😅 (btw sorry if some of the images look like shit, I made these collages on paint 😅)

Some nudity and gore/body horror under the read more

I think my most obvious/recent inspiration is Haruko Ichikawa. No long ago someone (hi Jay) mentioned that my characters are quite elongated and have very long necks, AND I BLAME THIS MANGAKA FOR THAT! (what drawing gems for two years does to a mf). She has such nice panel composition and has this trope going on in most of her stuff where a character looks like a normal human, but it's actually some sort of inhuman being, which leads to really interesting (and almost surreal) body horror that it's oddly beautiful in it's own way (ngl all the artwork of the gems characters being shattered to pieces has such a morbid quality to them, a but it's so pleasing to see and draw...). Very good stuff.

Have I mentioned that I LOVE creatures? I have a weak spot for monster design, SPECIALLY the animal types with human/humanoid faces and weird taurs. My fav artists on this domain are @silicon65, with his creatures that transmit such a melancholic feel to them (and lots of critters with human faces!); @bwubwuart, with VERY unique creatures that still feel grounded in reality thanks to her knowledge in anatomy.

There are also manga artists such as Ryo Sumiyoshi, who has such an appealing way to design creatures and furries (and has written peak human/monster relationshipscofcof), and Ryoko Kui, who doesn't really need introduction, but I feel it's still worth mentioning that I love the diversity in design when it comes to her most humanoid characters.

There are two aspects of @ccasino's art that I really enjoy, one being THIS particular shading/rendering style that gives an uncanny feeling to some of her pieces, and the other being how transformative she can get, even if it's the same muse in some of her art. That's really inspiring, I need to step up my game.

And since we're talking about creepy stuff, I love deadlymelodic's (Molly Brown), art for two reasons: in one part, there's the terrifying creature designs she paints or sculpts, but there's also the characterization. You see, along with those very scary renders, there are also the cutesy doodles that (if I'm not mistaken) include their canon personalities (I love when a creature is also a character, if you get what I mean). So, while pretty much all of them look very creepy, very few of them are actually evil, and that's beautiful.

In a similar vein and to finalize, there's Q Hayashida, whose love for masked characters (as well as buff/creepy characters) I 100% support. But there's also how she writes relationships/bonds?? One of the things I really enjoyed about Dorohedoro is that despite all the gore and weird fucked up shit going on, there was still this level of silliness an the different depictions of familial/platonical bonds. I would call it quite wholesome if not because those characters are quite messed up on their own way, and will later kill brutally some guy, but you get the idea. I really enjoy that kind of stuff.

So yeah! there's that! Special mentions as well to transformers/mecha art, Felix Colgrave, Junji Ito, weirdcore, low-poly 3D models and that type of vintage art that has that grainy (airbrushed?) texture to it. Thanks for asking, and now you know!!~ ✨

[pinkrose05]

My babies (and this weird wet kitten I found)

[thetreedragon]

CatNap Warrenheim

"The Prototype will be very pleased."

[amorxsomnia]

D is not a tall or well-built man. He stands about 5'5 at most and that is quite generous given his poor biological health as his grandfather's clone. Others assume him to be a mild-mannered asian male but D is quite capable of being vicious when need be, albeit as a last resort due to the energy it takes out of him.