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Currently hooked on Resident Evil.

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So I drew some more…

I just really wanted to draw him from the front (it was kind of torturous GOSH I HATE PERSPECTIVE). I also figured with how large and fuzzy he is, he’d be the perfect cuddle buddy for Sherry.

Now, and I realllly need you to suspend belief here for a second, imagine an au where Leon and Sherry go on a mission together, but this time, things go wrong. Sherry finds herself in a dangerous situation with the latest BOW of the week and quickly finds herself outmatched. Before Leon is able to reach her, however, the BOW lands a lucky hit on Sherry, rendering her unconscious. Fueled by paternal rage, he takes down the offending BOW in a second, but by the time he manages to get to Sherry, he can tell that the injuries she has sustained are nearly fatal. Leon’s witnessed death before, and he knows it’s coming for Sherry. In desperation, he prays to anything that might be listening out there, and to his surprise, someone answers.

A mysterious voice seems to reach out to him from the void, telling him of a land that may bring Sherry back from her brush with death. As much as Leon hates the idea of playing with life and death, he decides to take the chance.

Boom, Leon is suddenly transported to the Forbidden Land of Shadow of the Colossus, and the voice, who’s revealed to be Dormin, guides him through the trials of the lands. Cue Leon climbing and taking down the colossi in epic battle sequences with his little combat knife - he’s killed giants before why would these be any different!

Much like the game, as Dormin’s energy seeps into his body, and each of the colossi fall, Leon becomes weaker and weaker. By the end, Leon finds himself fully corrupted by Dormin and falls before he can witness Sherry’s revival. Before being fully overtaken by Dormin’s influence, however, the gods of these lands strike him down, and instead of being banished for his sinful transgressions (like Wander was), Leon is instead punished into the form of the very colossi he had slain.

Soooooo yeah, this is definitely an outlandish crossover au, but kind of fun to think about nonetheless…

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So I blame @polarspaz for this one - they drew Leon in Wander’s outfit which inspired me to design Leon as a colossus LOL

Since most of the colossi are animal-inspired, I decided to base Leon’s look off of a wolf/dog because of how loyal he is. I wasn’t entirely sure about how big he would be, but I kinda picture him being about the same size as Kuromori (the 8th colossus).

So I have no explanation for how this could happen! The idea just came into my mind and wouldn’t leave until I drew it so here ya go T-T

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Just some quick paint studies of the one and only Leon S. Kennedy~

I usually never render my art, or color it for that matter, and I completely forgot that color theory is a pain in the ass T-T

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I finally present the start of some of my Infected Leon au lore - with a rough storyboard as bonus!

Just a warning that this is gonna be a loooooong post. If you make it to the end, I applaud your dedication. As a treat, I’ll put the (admittedly extremely rough) sketch at the beginning so you don’t have to scroll all the way down if you don’t want to 😅

Well, without further ado, here we gooo~

So much of the beginning of the game is exactly the same – Leon goes to Spain, he gets attacked by the villagers, yada yada yada. Mendez is also still the one who ends up knocking Leon out and injecting him with the plaga.

Things don’t start to change until the fight against Del Lago. You know when Leon faints after the fight and gets his first taste of hallucinations from the plaga? That’s also when he also gets his first mutation. He wakes to find that he now has claw tipped hands covered in a hard plating that can only be described as chitin. It’s a mild mutation - he still has his 5 fingers and the relative shape of a hand, but the veins of his arms are extremely prominent, and it seems like the chitin will only continue creeping up.

Obviously, he’s horrified, but he’s not really surprised – getting infected in his line of work seemed almost inevitable. As usual, Leon decides to push his emotions to the back of his mind and puts all his focus into his current mission.

The rest of the village progresses as usual. Ashley is somewhat frightened by the state of Leon’s hands, but quickly realizes he means well when he helps her escape the church. The cabin scene also continues as per usual, with the exception that Luis expresses concern over Leon’s new mutations, to which he mentions the existence of a suppression drug.

The next major mutation occurs during the Mendez fight. During the second phase, Mendez grabs Leon and pins him against the wall. Leon finds his arms immobilized, and any attempts to escape seem to have no effect. Sensing impending doom, the plaga steps in with a new mutation in Leon’s legs, giving him wicked sharp claws in the form of a new set of dinosaur-like feet. It’s just what he needs to get the upper hand, and he’s able to grip at Mendez’s arm before ripping it off.

Leon only has a few seconds to really comprehend what happened to him before Mendez is back on him. Instinct kicks in, and with a little help from the plaga, Leon is able to easily overtake Mendez at this point. His new legs are much stronger and give him the ability to jump and dodge much more easily. Leon’s survival instinct is kicked into overdrive, and after he defeats Mendez, he swiftly escapes from the burning building.

Once the danger of the situation has washed away, the plaga seems to settle down and leaves Leon to his own devices again. Unfortunately, this also allows him to finally register the state of his body. Ashley, of course, is also alarmed by the new changes, but upon seeing the briefest flash of distress on Leon‘s face, she realizes that HER fear is probably the last thing he needs to see. So instead, she cracks a dumb joke.

This ends up being exactly what Leon needs, and after a few reassurances from both Ashley and himself, he quickly falls back into prioritizing the mission. Chiding himself for wasting so much time, he quickly rises to stand... only to promptly fall back down. Turns out without the plaga subconsciously guiding him, he actually has zero idea on how to maneuver his new legs.

The idea of having to relearn how to navigate his body terrifies Leon. By getting used to this as his new “normal,” he feels like he’s admitting defeat and accepting that this is permanent. He also realizes, however, that if he isn’t able to move properly, the chances of him being able to get Ashley to safety are close to zero. After a brief mental breakdown, he resigns himself to his fate with the hope that he can avoid having the same thing happen to Ashley. And so, him and Ashley spend the next couple minutes practicing how to stand and walk in his “new heels,” as Ashley calls much to his chagrin.

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OOPS I haven’t been drawing much lately, but I finally sat down and drew some more infected Leon stuff~

Love the idea of him just expressing emotions and discovering the weird new things his body does now. I imagine he worries about him coming off as too scary to other people when in reality they think his new mannerisms are kind of adorable in a way.

Also! I am planning on posting a cohesive backstory to the lore behind this AU soon! So stay tuned for that :)))

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IT’S DONE! IT’S FINALLY DONE! I PRESENT MY FINALIZED INFECTED LEON DESIGN!!!

PHEW - this one took a GOOD while, BUT I’m really happy with how this came out! I really wanted to make him as close to the verdugo in design as possible, but with a few minor tweaks! I’ve always been a fan of the third eye that @polarspaz puts in their infected Leon designs, so that’s stayed in all iterations of my designs! I also just really love the idea of Leon having big old dino feet, even if the verdugo just has plain old bug feet (make that man digitigrade I say!)

FINALLY, I’m planning on posting some more in depth backstory for Leon’s whole situation, but the general idea is that, similar to many others I’ve seen, the constant stress and injuries Leon’s been accruing during his mission spurs his plaga into trying to keep him alive. He’s basically a disaster magnet (although not as bad as Ethan Winters haha), so his plaga advances very quickly, attempting to give him mutations it feels will help in the high stress situations he increasingly finds himself in.

Most of the mutations, although physically change him, don’t do anything terrible to him anatomically (yet). He maintains a mostly human shape, albeit with dinosaur legs and some changes to his jaw, but that’s beside the point! It isn’t until the verdugo fight that the plaga in him reallllly feels threatened, and kicks the mutations into overdrive. Leon thinks that nothing can top the pain of his jaw splitting apart earlier, but is VERY quickly proven wrong when he feels a tail rip out of his spine to defend against the advancing verdugo.

This is when all the mutations his plaga has been slowly working towards suddenly fast forwards to his final mutation state. His jaw, only consisting of 3 mouth pieces, further mutates into the 5-piece mouth of the verdugo. The carapace that’s been slowly covering his body finally overtakes any remaining flesh, slick body plates slotting into place with finality. Although he now sports dagger-like claws, he was allowed to keep all 10 of his fingers - until now. The plaga twists his somewhat human shaped hands and changes them into the 3 fingered claws of the verdugo.

During the state of panic and pain Leon finds himself in, the plaga takes over and gets rid of the threat it has deemed dangerous enough to install all these mutations. It’s only after his plaga has ripped the verdugo to bloody shreds that Leon is able to snap back into reality, surrounded by the pieces of a monster that he has now become.

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BEHOLD! After hours of studying, cross referencing, and just STARING, I think I’ve FINALLY cracked the code!

Like @polarspaz, I’ve distinguished 5 major mandibles/mouthparts on each side of its face! I found that the confusing additional maxilla/pincers are actually part of the larger piece (labeled 2 in the image) that covers much of the lower jaw. These all actually fold rather well into the shape we see when the verdugos are robed, with the bottom two pieces (labeled 3 in the image) shaping the “chin!”

As a result, I’ve modified my design AGAIN for poor Leon…

I’m still working through the timeline of his transformation, but I’m thinking that the original design with the much simpler split jaw look is the first mutation Leon experiences in his face. It isn’t until he fights the verdugo that his plaga decides to kick into overdrive and fully push his body to mutate into the very creature he’s fighting. I can just imagine the plaga being tired of watching Leon get thrown around and beaten senseless all the time and decides that it’s about time to go full bug mode. You gotta fight fire with fire, amirite?

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I started the second part of my (extremely frustrating) verdugo studies, and I present to you, my rendition of the jaw!

I spent a reaaaaallllly long time flipping between reference images of the open and closed mouth and I nearly lost my mind trying to figure out how everything folded. BUT! I managed to make SOME sense of it I think!

These are just a few potential ideas for the placement for all those unnecessary mouth pieces! I’m not entirely sure what that bottom “chin” part is, but I’m thinking maybe it’s the chelicera folded in a way so that the fangs are hidden?

I also noticed this little… maxilla? I’m not actually sure what it is (someone who knows bugs can PLEASE chime in here), but it’s something? Maybe!?

Anyways, the more I look at this thing’s mouth, the more I feel like the designers just took every insect mouth part they could think of and made an amalgamation of it. It’s honestly a miracle there’s not a proboscis thrown in there too!

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So I was inspired by @polarspaz’s latest verdugo art and decided to attempt some sketches myself! It was honestly going well, but I kinda exhausted myself just trying to understand how the arm is structured, and was a bit too tired to fully flesh out the other limbs… and torso… and face… honestly, it felt like the longer I spent trying to decipher what I was looking at, the more confused I became 😅

Either way, I ended up getting a more updated version of my infected Leon design! I aim to make more studies of him from different perspectives soon, I just need to recharge my brain after staring at that overly complicated mess of chitin that is the verdugo

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This AU continues to eat at my brain - I present more lore/background to the transformation poor Leon is going through throughout the events of RE4.

I imagine Leon is going through it mentally throughout the entirety of this infection process but he’s able to push aside most of the trauma by cracking corny jokes as per usual. It isn’t until he loses his face (literally) and is unable to speak that he truly spirals into his first full-on panic attack. Luckily, Ashley has complete trust in this man by this point and helps remind him that he is just as human as he ever has been, even if he’s realllllly not feeling like it right now. I’m kinda picturing a reversal of that scene when Leon has to reassure Ashley that she IS in control and that everything is gonna be okay.

Bonus scene!

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MAJOR BODY HORROR WARNING!

Some more infected Leon stuff. The potential this AU has for body horror, dysmorphia, and pure ANGST is unbelievable… I’m so sorry Leon but how could I resist the opportunity 😭

I may or may not come up with a rough backstory for this AU. I kinda have a vague sense of what it could be. Obviously, the body horror and psychological horror of becoming the very monster you’re hunting is a major component, BUT I promise that there will eventually be moments of comfort/fluff in this AU!

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I’ve been toying with the idea of infected Leon since forever basically but never really drew an official design for it. Playing RE9 kinda pulled me back into the franchise though, and now all the ideas I’ve had for a verdugo Leon are begging to be drawn - so! I present to you, my infected Leon design!

I’ve always been a fan of when a character becomes twisted beyond recognition and goes through a grotesque, body horror-filled transformation (hint hint, Spamton, hint hint), and Resident Evil has so many AU opportunities for this to occur. The idea of Leon becoming the very thing that he strives to destroy - to become one of the monsters that he’s dedicated his life to fight against - is such an incredibly delicious and angst-filled concept that I just had to draw my own interpretation of it!

Obviously, this design is heavily inspired by the verdugo itself, but I also want to give a major shoutout to @polarspaz for their amazing contributions to the infected Leon field! I’ve followed their art forever now and their work has definitely influenced some of the choices I made in my own infected Leon design!

Anyways, I may be drawing more of this stuff, and may even perhaps come up with some sort of backstory (spoilers, it might be heavily influenced by all the other AUs I’ve come across on here LOL).

Sidenote: the physiology of the verdugo was one of the hardest things I’ve tried to draw - like, I stared at that thing for several hours just trying to understand what I was looking at, and tbh, I still don’t think I understand it :’)

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So I played resident evil 9…

Suffice to say, I’m in love with Leon again

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As promised, here’s some more Expedition 33 art. I actually hate painting, but it feels wrong to NOT paint fanart of this game lmao… so here’s some of my messy attempts at portraits 😭

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IN CASE ANYONE’S BEEN WONDERING WHERE I’VE BEEN, TA-DAAA!!! I’M NOT DEAD :D

BEHOLD, THE REASON I WENT MISSING, MY NEW HYPERFIXATION, EXPEDITION 33

ANYWAYS, yeah, that’s where I’ve been, going down the rabbit hole that is Expedition 33. I finished it recently and just started new game plus, and boy can I say this game is PEAK. The characters are incredible, the plot is top tier (haven’t been plot twisted that many times in a GOOD while), the art is BEAUTIFUL, the music is MWAH, just an overall PERFECT GAME *chefs kiss*

Naturally, I became obsessed, and am now drawing tons of fanart of it, so expect more in the future! It doesn’t help that Verso is so dang pretty…

TO MY SPAMTENNA FANS, I’M SO SORRY, I fear the Deltarune bug has released its grip on me and I am FREE again. I’m sure once chapter 5 comes out, I’ll be back on that Deltarune grind lmao, but for now, I hope you enjoy my new art 🥹

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I’ve got an essay due in less than two weeks, so in between working on it I’ve been chilling out by adding to this sheet of @bruhsoundeffect2’s goofy-ass worm curse AU. Tenna got straight up Franz Kafka’d 😔

Close-ups incoming! Each has descriptive alt text as well, if anyone needs it.

Squishy and pathetic, give him a hug damnit.

Outed myself as Br*tish with that ‘telly’ drop, whoopsies.

I need to give them all a BIIIIG bear hug so they slip out from between my arms like a bar of soap.

I had to. I couldn’t not.

When the TV is so insidiously influential to your subconscious that it straight up Pavlov’s itself. I find this significantly more interesting (and funnier) than him losing or still having full access to his wacky-ass powers, personally :3

People drawing/writing Tenna in pursuit like some sort of fucked up Resident Evil stalker enemy always brings me immense joy. So of COURSE I had to find a way to shove the worm back into the husk and make it freaky! GLORIA A LAS PLAGAS!!!

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YES YES YES I LOVE THIS SMMMMMMM

Awww he’s just a little squishy cutie patootie~

ALSO THE RE4 REFERENCE!? I love me some las Plagas body horror…

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Lowkey going through Spamtenna art block rn guys I’m so sorry. I’m going to try and answer the requests in my inbox but unsure how successful I’m going to be in drawing anything 😭