Jan 19
Til the tide reveals us again
#kodasea#own art#2025 art#procreate#krita#creature art#creature design#monster art#monster design#sea creatures#environmental design#original character#original species#mantis shrimp#oc: Madeline#story: Cold Case Crew#Cape Falmouth#Don't have a defined name yet for this species since I've basically just solidified the visual design#The mantis shrimps of my story finally appear! One of the more elusive “abyssals” and occupy a similar level of niche to the lobsters#They prefer so much more anonymity though. I sort of keep characterizing them in my mind as these meditative hunter types#Kind of fiddling with the idea that sometimes they molt into people to spend a period living on/maybe hunting on land#Like you can choose to stay as a human but after enough “molts” go by the memory of your shrimp life passes from your mind#Princess Kaguya and the Last Unicorn and Wolf Children dancing around in their characterization to be completely honest#Also in my story there's this church that's being sunken in by the sea. It's moved up several times but the ocean always meets it#So there's some ruins around of older versions of the church (where certain beings like to dwell in the moonlight...)#Oh yeah I also painted this in live for LBX 2025 for the XP-PEN booth!
