A Double Feature Magma... Technically
OOOhoho doppelgängers, what a fun prompt this was. Now I am a bit exhausted from art fight, so definitely not as much done as I like. But also I suppose I wasn't aiming for that many pieces! Though I certainly did have ideas hehahea. Both pieces I'd say are connected!
So first up we have a very blatant Goosebumps "Stay Out Of The Basement" reference... which is really the whole idea of both pieces. With Donnie accidentally making a plant copy of himself that... kinda takes over. I definitely had some mild trouble with this piece, mainly the perspective of the stairs but I think it came out well. Of course it was hard to portray the plant copy Donnie since he's suppose to.. for the most part, look nearly identical with a few minor details. But one of the biggest tells is being injured and bleeding green goop though with some red still in there. Hence the injury on his arm. I did have a lot of fun with this, though I wish I had made the shadows more intense... I was a bit worried about covering too much of my work ahgh-- but it's fine! I like it :]. And the second one I think is much more unsettling
And two is ahem, a climax of things. Donnie's been captured for a bit. And the now more planty copy showing of the... actively growing copies of the others. They've all got a wood texture to their plastrons and shells, except copy Donnie's who's is vines and leaves, and just.. at varying states of completion. They're so aggressive because.. of being made from carnivorous plants, and of course instead of bugs... it's meat they're after. So there's a lot of that in there! Like the 'petals' the brothers are emerging from are loosely based on butterwort, their mouths that have the little strange tendrils where their tongues should be is inspired by the little trigger hairs on the inside of a venus fly trap.. and so is the color of their teeth when more planty. And the red goop dripping from their mouth is NOT blood! It's red nectar :D! Aka what carnivorous plants use to lure in their prey, and it has a double use here. As it may be tantalizing a bit for the turtles smell wise they're not bugs, but seeing their siblings possibly bleeding from their mouths? Terrifying! They gotta go check on them! Also their bodies are made of the vines/can pull apart to look more plant like, but also can pull together to seamlessly look normal. But there is always something off... also I felt like how the mode lighting in 'Stay Out Of The Basement' is green for that planty feel... in Donnie's garden lab it'd be violet. Not just because it's Donnie, but because that's the color of grow lights for plants! So it felt fitting. Something once used to grow something beautiful is now growing a nightmare <3
These two pieces really revealing one of my many comic ideas that I have and wanted to do- it just personally I have a fair amount I want to do before I'd get to this one, though I have some scripts already laid out for some!! Which is good! But regardless I'm glad to get to draw some of my ideas out here. These are subject to change of course but who knows!
Overall this magma was fun and creepy, many an unsettling and daunting sight! With some wholesome and cool sprinkled in there of course! Thank you of course to @weeklymagmas for hosting as always!
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