This might seem drastically different, but the face of this new design can still curl up into the more toucan-like shape of the original version, and the body can fold up the same way at rest. So when "Standing," this has the same design the old one does, but its "flight mode" is now a bit different.
This is to emphasize that the plaguemen aren't bird-derived; for this update I borrowed ...
There may still be touch-ups to do, and I'm not yet sure about the color scheme - although it is largely accurate to a real bluebottle fly.
I've intended to update Blobotle for many years, but was dissatisfied with dozens of sketches I went through. This version is the final culmination of weighing everything I love about flies and attempting to keep that dash of "human" that defines Art...
The idea for this monster was something that pretends to be dead and rotting, which is a popular tactic in nature; many animals pretend to be dead as a defense mechanism, while many plants imitate carrion to attract pollinating insects.
Hoaxidermy does both, but also lures scavengers that can become its prey!
The very first thing I knew I wanted in this design was that it shouldn'...
These are some of the sprites I've currently completed myself; I've shown two of them (Beeblezug and Pustulump) on Kickstarter, but here's also Bezulga, Foulmonella, Stingg, Scrabies and Slurpentine!
2021-02-21 13:22:26 +0000 UTC View PostSlowly but surely going through months worth of backed up request material, here's some of your requested monster reviews!
https://bogleech.com/rr/rr023od.html - Sunset Overdrive monsters
https://bogleech.com/rr/rr024smooze.html 2021-01-18 15:55:30 +0000 UTC View Post
You likely know what's slammed me with work the last few months (again!!) but put in your requests, even any you've made before that I've still not finished!
After this round, I might change them up again, maybe retire the review requests since they're not frequently used and are sometimes tough to gather good material for.
A double addition to Mortasheen, chosen by popular pick on the kickstarter from over 20 new monster sketches!
Salivite is a pure healer with no major damaging attacks, seen as an ally by default to almost all other monsters.
For its design, I wanted it to look very alien but also very dopey and innocent looking. I drew inspiration from the Loch Ness Monster, inflatable pool toys, ...
This monster actually hails all the way back to some of my concepts for "Noisy Tenant," the horror setting that also evolved into Awful Hospital. In "Noisy Tenant," one monster was a living toy mouse that existed only to lure and prey upon cats, dogs or other nonhuman predators that wound up in the monster house.
Early concepts for this Mortasheen version put the legs on the "head" of th...
I don't know where I got a fascination for dead, rotten sea life as monster fodder; maybe it's just that I like sea life, and I like undead monsters, and nothing gets quite as putrid and ghoulish as a fish carcass baking on a beach.
Globsters are a long-time favorite "cryptid," even if I know they're all just half-eaten basking sharks, and I do have more than one Mortasheen creature evok...
So if you don't check my tumblr, twitter or front page of bogleech.com very often, you might have missed that this is finally happening.
Feel free to ask anything you like here! ALL free digital material I release for the kickstarter backers in the coming year, I will also release for you guys on the patreon, along with developmental stuff!
Attached is a partial PDF download of my first ever novel, Return of the Living. This is the first eight chapters, since my editor would rather me not release the entire book as just a PDF file!
2020-09-12 07:39:00 +0000 UTC View Post
https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/scarbuncle.htm
I mentioned this on tumblr, but this monster was inspired by the style of the Gegebomajuu (https://bogleech.com/halloween/hall19-gegebomajuu.html) though who's ...
So, nearly a year ago today, I may have mentioned in passing on my tumblr that I was working on something really cool, but not likely to ever see the light of day. We knew within weeks that it was on indefinite hold and probably dead in the water, so I'm REASONABLY certain I can show off a little of my work here by now.
Maxwell Atoms (you know him as creator of Billy and Mandy) approache...
This request was for an android assassin with Inspector Gadget style weaponry, who would disguise herself as a sexy Hollywood actress.
.....You didn't say it had to be a lifelike disguise, though.
I imagine it manages to fool people anyway.
This is another request I turned into more of a "reimagination," as well as somewhat cartoonier. I guess this is more like Birkin as an Awful Hospital slob monster, which is only fair because he totally inspired their aesthetic. I always loved Birkin's giant eyeball, and that it's just kinda hanging out in a nonsensical place on his various forms, but I always wondered what might happen if his ...
2020-07-18 07:38:23 +0000 UTC View Post
I wound up doodling a total reimagining of Resetti the way I might have designed an angry mole for a game of my own.
2020-07-18 07:35:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Specifically a request for "cute and sexy" merwomen of Mortasheen's Gill-Men race. Most of their kind aren't terribly exotic looking; a little more in the "fish gijinka" side, kind of like the fish men from One Piece actually.
More hypothetical arthropoids, this time based on the crab larva vampire, Necrozoa.
2020-07-18 07:32:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Some hypothetical Arthropoid Mortasheen based on a larval lobster, larval crab, and a copepod.
2020-07-18 07:31:29 +0000 UTC View Post
A hypothetical Mortasheen zombie spawn (but feel free to consider it canon!) symbiotic with tongue lice, constantly regrowing the tongue that sustains its swarm. I dunno what a good name might be. Cymouthoa?
2020-07-18 07:30:19 +0000 UTC View Post
A character only encountered by whoever wrote this mysterious journal! But...maybe Opthalmophantom is still somewhere in the Hospital....
2020-06-27 09:15:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Not sure I've shared this one yet!
2020-06-27 09:13:30 +0000 UTC View Post
There's just something about dead, rotten fish I find exceptionally cool, creepy and surreal as imagery. I already poured this into a few other monsters, but then the Junjo, a "reverse mermaid," wound up being kind of my ultimate smelly fish monster. This still wasn't really enough, since I kept having idea after idea for more cousins to give it, and since the Junjo is a "reverse mermaid," I wa...
2020-06-27 08:58:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, he doesn't exactly have any details you missed at low resolution, but here he is!
Early, scrapped concepts had a human doctor who was unambiguously villainous, even pushing his own alternative therapy methods for profit and now trapped in the hospital by mistake, but I didn't like that idea; it felt too obvious. The bad dude was scrapped and replaced with an entirely different huma...
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 attache...
To make things smoother, every $10 is now worth one request, which I actually thought was how I'd always written it? I know it's how most people used it anyway! It can now be a colored doodle again, since I think I've become much more comfortable doing quick digital drawings that still look "nice" to me.
I'll still finish all the review requests that were put in, but from now on I'd pref...
Strange School was a tumblr webcomic inspired by Awful Hospital, which developed its own following and went on for several years! It's now been followed up by Strange School: Even Stranger, and since it took me forever, I decided to color this request.
You can read the comic here:
2020-04-22 02:05:24 +0000 UTC
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The same requester as the last upload also wanted to see what happens when someone with a fear of snakes is accidentally sent a real snake by the Hospital
2020-04-22 02:02:03 +0000 UTC View Post
A request for a Hospital entity that exists to treat the fear of snakes, through exposure therapy, befriending a patient who isn't afraid of snakes anyway.
The whole staff in charge of phobias would probably be these puppeteer arms in different costumes.
