linkandorf's Bad-vent Calendar 2024!
Day 3: The Warden, from Minecraft
Walking around the Ancient City for the first time and hearing Ancestry playing was an unforgettable experience.
Hello!! As you may or may not know, I've recently been designing a lot of fun characters based on real life spider species, and other arachnids as well! It's been a minute since I've shared any of these designs, so I figured I'd show off some more of them today! I also had my wonderful biologist friend @aphid-kirby help me identify some of these real life spider species, since I usually just search "cool spider photos" on google images for inspiration without caring what I'm actually looking at. So let's check out some more characters based on these real life spider species!
Here's Jambo and J.J., based on the Chirotheca telaincola and Ambulorbis psychedelia, respectively. In real life, these two species, despite not being very closely related, are both commonly referred to as "Scuttlebugs", causing some confusion for which one is actually being referred to. For that reason, I thought it would be fun to make them siblings! Jambo is the rowdy but protective big brother, and J.J. is the cute but also strange little sister.
This is Giacomo, based on the Triplumoculus spissumembrum. The real life species is known for it's three equally sized eyeballs, as well as it's floating limbs. Nature is crazy! Giacomo seems laidback on the surface, but he actually thinks quite highly of himself. If you were to have the right "Ability", so to say, you might be able to "cut" him down to your level. Or something.
Craftwell here is based on the Araneacaudex luxtranquilium, a tarantula known for it's strange blocky-like appearance. Similar to the real species, Craftwell is quite polite during the day, as he's quite the social butterfly, despite his bookish appearance. During the night, however, he gets VERY sucked into his hobbies of reading and writing, and it would be a grave error to disrupt him at this time of day. He drops String and Spider Eyes.
Dash is based on the Celericaecilia rubrumacula, a very tiny red spider capable of running quite quickly, and is known for being much more aggressive their blue-colored relatives. Dash is just a little guy :) In his design, I made sure to reference the many defining features of his real life counterpart, such as
This is Goldie, based on the Cephalospica retropoda, a spider with very distinct coloration that is also known for it's horn-like protrusion and strange placement of it's back pair of legs. Scientists still don't know why this species Evolved like this, but according to the Pokede- I mean, uh, scientific reports, they can't even tell it's front from it's back, so whose to say. Oh, and, uh, Goldie is, uh... cool... and red :)
My good friend Mr. Glove is based on the Myriachirotheca manususpendium, a spider with very strange behavior, in which it weaves it's web into glove-like accessories, despite spiders not having fingers! How weird! But it makes for a good anthro design, so that worked out huh! Mr. Glove is sort of an eccentric salesman, who would be happy to weave you your own pair of gloves. For a Price.
Stabitha is based on the Confodiopoda homophagus, a terrifying spider known for hiding in the shadows due to it's almost entirely silhouetted coloration, waiting to strike at it's prey. This spider doesn't just bite it's prey however, but it'll actually stab it with it's sharp legs! Yowch! A spider that sits and waits... hunting it's prey... such a violent and aggressive method of attack... so of course I turned it into a Hot Woman.
This is Muffet, based on the Araneavenditor panifica. SHe's from under tale .
tryin to draw again
Here's nicer quality versions of the art I made for my dumb April Fools bit this year lol.
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Day 8: The Nether
Today's Tune: Warmth - Minecraft
The various updates the Nether has gotten over the years has truly made it an actually fun place to explore. Thank god. Blaze is also my favorite Minecraft mob of them all :) Not really in-game, they're kind of annoying, but design-wise.
also this
Could you draw a piglin from Minecraft?
I LOVE drawing Minecraft characters, it's always really fun interpreting their designs in my style. I like keeping them pretty blocky but still flexible and round in certain areas. I never cared much for Piglins until I actually played the Nether update for the first time and actually interacted with them. They're really fun to hang around and barter with. I like getting annoying skeletons to accidentally shoot a Piglin so the nearby group all gang up on the skeleton and beat the shit out of it.
Day 22! There’s much room on this Katamari, if you’d like to join.
Ah I don’t actually have that much done @leaderfuzzy! But I can share a couple screenshots.
I have a lot of the main menu done, with the buttons and font, and even the logo lol. The language button has Popstar instead of Earth which I thought was cute.
The options and loading background I think turned out nice.
The main HUD is done, with health based on the Adventure health bar, hunger using Maxim Tomatoes of course, the breath meter based off the bubbles that appear next to Sleep Kirby/Noddy, and the armor meter based on the Sword Hero helmet from Team Kirby Clash. Also the crosshair is the one Copy Kirby uses to scan. I plan to pull a lot from other Kirby games besides Adventure, but still try to use Adventure’s art style of course.
Also I did all the paintings which I think are really nice. Besides a few other minor things, that’s about it. I might start this up again soon though!
A new set of Drawpile doodles, including some more Mario OC’s! (With species names next to them this time. How smart.) I really like this bunch a lot.
Day 10
I’m finally back home, and I can finally catch up with Inktober! Buuuuuuuuut not today. I was still kinda busy today so I didn’t have time to make the drawings for days 11 and 12. But I did have time to draw this cutie! Tomorrow I promise I’ll have the day 11 and 12 drawings up, as well as making the drawing for day 13. And then I’ll be all caught up which will feel nice. Anyways Endermen got somewhat popular on tumblr within the last few months which is a very good thing. They really are the best.
Playing around with colors some more. This time it’s the bomb boys. A Minecraft Creeper (woah nice meme), Electrode the Pokemon, a Bob-Omb from Mario, a Bomber from Kirby, a Real Bombchu from Zelda (Majora’s Mask), Bomberman himself, and a Smilin’ Sphere from Earthbound.