this is high-resolution character art I made for "internal" use, such as stickers and merch, including an "opposite side" for reversible charms and standees.
Chip was a character especially created around the solution to his story arc. From day one, Fern was going to have to swap around the roles of Chip, Crash, and Jay, with Chip having always been a Computer Guy who became a Barista Gu...
Parasitic flukes typically have tadpole-like larvae called cercariae, which erupt from the bodies of their snail and slug hosts, then use acid to dissolve their way into their next host. Almost all aquatic freshwater snails are used this way by flukes, and the image of a dopey, oblivious snail spurting fast-moving, corrosive parasites has always fascinated me. I discussed the concept in my "Bio...
2025-02-15 15:56:34 +0000 UTC View Post
A revamp of the older monster "Chlorofoul," which was originally designed as a peapod with exploding eyeball "peas." The new monster has a longer pod body, designed to look a little more like a veiny intestine, and its "soldier beans" have more animal-like features, with clawed legs, to emphasize better that the Botanical class are hybrid half-plants rather than just ambulatory vegetables.
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Not yet added to the final book, but set to be added for its final coming update, Scyllawatt is a brand new Vampire class based on Siphonophores. Its design somewhat homages one of my first favorite Magic: The Gathering creatures, the Krovikan Horror, while drawing from both the more famous Portuguese Man O' War and more elongated wormlike deep-sea Siphonophora.
The glowing eyes were a l...
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I've now gone the longest ever without updating on patreon, missed most of my intended Halloween content updates for the first time in my website's existence, and gone the longest I've ever gone without updating Awful Hospital.
This is all 100% due to working on Mortasheen. If you weren't aware, @gutsygills on tumblr has been helping me put the game together for months now, and without h...
I've been absurdly busy all October, so some additional updates will still be coming a bit late, but as I continue to try and bring the Mortasheen book together, I can for now offer bits and pieces of completed material; the attached PDF details the "player races" (biotypes) that will be in the first book, including two sample NPC's and two entire pages of lore each for Shades, Mutants, Sectili...
2023-11-01 02:18:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Unmade concepts from my archives including:
-A jellyfish creature that also kind of looks like a sheet ghost, with luminous eyes just under the surface of the bell. Not sure if I actually prefer this for Mortasheen or to save it for something else, like a creepypasta.
-A mange mite arthropoid. I definitely want to use this design. Mange mites actually tunnel through host skin by se...
2023-09-20 21:07:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Mortasheen RPG is coming along faster now thanks to a lot of help from my friend and now paid staff member, Gigi or Gutsygills, who learned the beta system well enough to stat up hundreds of monsters before I even proposed she do so for the actual RPG book. In finalizing the selection of monsters for said book, we wound up needing some creatures that could be common, "lower level" and...
2023-07-14 12:19:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I illustrated a party game in 2010, which wasn't terribly successful but can still be found for purchase online!
Attached is a zip file containing not just the above images but high resolution images for several more creatures, a PDF of the game's unreleased beta rules, and a fairly lengthy text file on my rationale behind each one.
This was a game in which the heads, bodies, and...
Reviewing the creature designs, setting and premise of one of my favorite series of the 2020's, the 12-episode anime Deca-Dence!
This series has a seemingly straightforward setup in its first episode: the last surviving humans defend themselves from monsters in a giant, mobile city fortress.
The second episode then immediately reveals what's really going on, and it's as wacky as i...
I no longer remember the name of the site, but I was once paid to design elemental arena bosses for a neopets-like game project around 2006, I think. I was give animal species (or groups as broad as "lizard!") and the elemental arenas they belonged to, not all of which I can remember, though some are self-explanatory, like the time element dragonfly and lightning gazelle :)
I believe the...
Looks like the idea here was that the eyes and mouths on this creature's hands are holes all the way through the palms, just like a flat mask, that it can line up with the stalked eyes and tongue sticking up out of its neck hole. Might be fun to use for something someday! It was probably going to be a Mortasheen monster. Maybe a Joker?
2023-06-21 04:00:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Nearly 20 years ago, the website Fay-Sim contacted me about designing and drawing some creatures for the site. Surprisingly, they liked and approved almost every single sketch I sent them. I'm not sure if they're still a presence anywhere on the site, but I know they even made some buttons and t-shirts with a couple of them back in the day!
Attached is a zip file of all 20+ creatures alo...
Finding a new stylistic principle for Botanical monsters
A botanical with a face like it's being pollinated by a wasp
A flying botanical based on a specific orchid flower
Finding a new look for Bombadire
A hydrozoan (siphonophora) vampire
A new monster that's sort of a serpent and a wolf
2023-06-09 06:44:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Now writing SCP-esque entries for the original Kaiju I shared some years back on bogleech. I'd like to spruce them up with more polished artwork (or even convincing photomanipulations???) if I ever can before I share these outside Patreon. For now the original doodles are good enough, and you might be ...
2023-06-02 13:52:03 +0000 UTC View Post
PSD file attached if you like looking at that!
This was an illustration made for the original Doctor Phage "creepypasta," depicting a prototypical Phage, Phleboto, and a third doctor who hasn't really been revisited since. Originally, I was just torn between whether Phage or Phleboto should be the main monster of the Hospital setting, back when it was never going to be anything but...
The rest of my work for the game "Crystal Catacombs," with PDF's, hi-res PNG's, production stuff and a text file explaining each creature! ZIP file attached for download.
A few miscellaneous monster sketches from the past few weeks, by far not the only ones but just some favorites I may develop further in the future. These include:
-A ceratopsian Ectosaur with a bit of insect in its skull design, not sure about this one, I like it but it's not quite hitting that Ectosaur ghostliness for me yet?
-A monster inspired by both "The Tingler" and "Fiend Wi...
2023-05-02 23:42:50 +0000 UTC View PostI wrote this stream of consciousness without establishing exactly what the setting or backstory would be, except that I wanted most of these "creatures" to feel as little like "creatures" as I could get away with.
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Fauna 001: a flattened and transparent blue arrow. Its opposite end has never been observ...
2023-05-02 23:31:49 +0000 UTC View PostOver a year and a half since the premiere of Digimon Ghost Game, here's the first three of a new round of reviews:
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I was once commissioned by a biologist to realistically illustrate both a planarian and a mated pair of blood flukes as examples of Platyhelminthes (flatworms), which they used on a banner for a school event!
As direct illustrations of real creatures I don't have "creative notes" but here are various facts about these animals:
-Platyhelminthes are some of the simplest of all bilat...
I shared a number of these as older posts, but not nearly all of them; I once illustrated a load of monsters for the indie game Crystal Catacombs, and have gathered them up into two zip files. This includes high resolution images of a dozen monsters, their PSD files (converted from the original Sai files), and a text file explaining each creature along with a bit of backstory on the project.
Tomorrow at 4pm pacific time, I'll be streaming a read-along of the 1977 Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual. This will be my first public twitch stream after testing it out a few days prior with a small group!
If this goes well, future streams might include me drawing and working on other updates and who knows!
The origin of the "Museum of Impending Conflicts" is not known. Located *** miles North of ************ in the ********* desert, the facility is unconnected to any public road and shows no evidence of having ever been staffed or patronized. There are no records of its conception or construction. Powered by its own array of solar panels, the fully automated museum displays exhibits al...
2023-04-02 07:03:02 +0000 UTC View PostMonthly "list format" fiction - I was calling it "creepypasta" but not all of it is really going to be horror.
----Macrogastropoda of the Pacific Southeast----
The Pacific Southeast is a geographical region in eastern North America characterized by a narrow strip of mudforest spanning the coast from roughly the snow-capped mountains of Southern Florida down to the subtropics of...
2023-03-12 07:07:25 +0000 UTC View Post
PSD file attached!
I originally came up with Professor Lexicovermus (literally "bookworm" in latin) as a minor side character and "gameplay feature" of Awful Hospital that would allow Fern to read any of the setting's spinoff writing materials chosen by the commenters.
Now that the storyline has visited the Professor's native library zone, we've built up to witnessing his temporar...
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2023-03-05 23:51:06 +0000 UTC View PostEarly previews just for patrons! These will go up over the next few weeks with comments enabled at the usual place on bogleech.com!
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For patrons only, until I round these up and share them on bogleech.com later this year! Disqus comments have to be disabled on the review itself until then, but you can leave any thoughts here!
Savageland is a mockumentary about a fictional, horrific, paranormal event that befalls the population of a very tiny town....and the innocent, non-paranormal man who took the blame.