#luscangel

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LUSCANGEL type: RADIANT

LIKES: Eating paper, cucumbers DISLIKES: Being in the dark, salty food

Luscangel is a highly curious creature, albeit clumsy. It's not uncommon to see them trip and fall over because they get too excited. Because of this nature, they're seen as a symbol for scholars.

Its skin feels like candle wax, and it has a pleasant smell.

oc: banamo

icon and conlang name

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oc: banamo

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oc: banamo

go my critters

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part of a wip from five million years ago i should probably finish

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i forgot to share some of the new monsters and designs. i want to challenge myself into sticking with 4 colors (including black and white!), so these might not be the "true" colors of the monsters. interpret the colors however you want :)

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CELESTIAL SNAIL CANON (´▽`ʃ🔥ƪ)

DOGGY SHADOW BONE (๑^人^)و🖤

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there are a LOT of guys on here, including redesigns! i'm done with half of these guys's sprites, and ill post the other half once im done with all of them :)

first off we have luscangel, this one is a redesign. you can see the original design for it here. im a lot happier with these designs, and i feel like they have more character, and i can visualize how they move beyond just being a snail.

these guys are called airlioon, and im really happy with them! if you scroll through the blog long enough you can find the first draft versions of them, but it's really low quality lol. i love how they turned out, and i think theyre already some of my favorite designs.

they probably go around picking up other monsters and things. their bodies have the rubber texture of balloons, and they have a bad habit of flying too high up without thinking about how far they'll have to go down

next up is swinedle! the tail was hardest to do for me. they were made purely for the pun. i imagine the first stage hiding in people's purses to eat their gold while looking cute. these guys have two bellies, one for actually digesting food, and one where all their metals go.

this is heorate! a golden hog that can conduct electricity very well! they do not get along with swindles. they're known for having great noses and being able to find treasure or people

these are ilyêupod, the first to be designed on this sheet. theyre love bug isopods. im not sure if im completely happy with these designs, but i think theyre good enough :,D

this is lendibag! little punching bag of a ladybug. you can squish it like a stress toy and it'd be fine with it! silly little guy

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Hi!! these are Poltegoat and Luscangel, the monsters representing the Shadow and Radiant types! They are going to be used by the main character and rival of Ban Mah. I plan to do this format of post for all of the type reps (not sure if im going to do other monsters like this ^^;)

I’ve done an image like the first one for Micelium (here!), and plan to make another post with it’s opposite monster, shiny colorings, and pixel art

Micelium+Powketroo

Dracumulus+Canaroc

Jelvysprite+Cruistacean

Toxifarce+Suncrower

Any feedback would be appreciated :)

More information about them under the cut!

The theme for Poltegoat is that it starts off as a monster that’s very trusting, but goes through a stage of doubt and worry, but eventually becomes someone who learns to trust again while being able to stand up for itself

For Luscangel, I didn’t really have a theme in mind besides “funny snail with angel motifs with a candle on it’s back,” until I also got the idea for it to turn into lava. I did want it to look very friendly, but it’s harder to make it not look friendly. I also thought of making nods to the 9 choirs of angels, but it really didn’t go through except for maybe the last stage (it is very hard to convey human like appearance and clothes in snails).

1st Page: Design Changes

I had originally planned to do a before and after with the designs like I did for Micelium, but I got carried away with it. You can see their first drafts (and the first-first drafts of the first stages here) The general gist is:

POLTEGOAT:

Red coloring got swapped for the blue (Conveys the fact that it is a shadow monster better)

The first stage didn’t have the heart marking

Second stage only had it’s front paws disconnected, and the fur puff is on the paw instead of the leg. The tail was also shorter

The third stage lost it’s back fur tuft (?)  and gets marking on the back, and blue accents on the leg instead.The horn goes around the ear, and the ear sticks up. It also loses it’s goatee (bc I forgot about it..) The snake tail also gets eyes

LUSCANGEL:

First stage gets yellow at the bottom

Second stage gets more detail overall- starts to introduce the concept of it turning into lava, and gets an actual shell (that’s supposed to represent molten rock!) instead of still having a glass shell

Third stage  gets a canon at it’s shell, and is fully obsidian with yellow and red markings - the shell isn’t just made of glass anymore. Also more of the lava motif appears at the end since it’s turning black. The canon rim works as a halo and I thought that the red spots on it would be good at conveying the eyes of higher up angels, as well as the multiple wings

2nd Page: Foils

Since monsters get captured in cards, I thought it’d be fitting to call their alternate coloration “foils”. It’s basically the same concept as Shinies from Pokemon, but I wanted to have multiple because 1) there are shiny hunters that unironically think that shinies being more common lowers their value, and I like that shinies are easier to get, so there being multiple types of foils balences that idea, and 2) because they look cool

Poltegoat: The first foil is its “beta coloring” with the red instead of the blue, the second foil takes the colors of it’s counterpart Luscangel, and the third stage is supposed to represent how its type is “Shadow.” I’m not sure how well that’s conveyed, since I didn’t want it to be all dark colors, but I think the bright purple and blue contrast well with the black and dark blue, and it looks cool, and that’s what matters

Luscangel: The first foil is basically the trans flag. It was suggested by a friend and I liked the idea, and it looks great! I think it’s my favorite. The second is Poltegoat’s coloring, and the third is because of how it’s the “Radiant” type. Radiant is basically light and fire. It’s basically just the color of fire, I think the shell makes a good contrast and makes the other colors look brighter and warmer :)

Pixel Art

The sizes of these are 32x32, 40x40, and 56x56, and then upscaled to where they’re 10 times bigger on both sides, so they’re not super blurry. The sizes of the canvas are based on their sizes:

Poltegoat 1/2/3 : 1′6″ (46cm)* / 3′ (91cm) / 5′2″ (157cm)**

Luscangel 1/2/3 : 0′8″ (20cm) / 2′4″ (71cm)*** / 6′3″ (191 cm)****

*to horn

**to head

***to eyes, not flame

****to top of canon

Poltegoat also has older sprites (~June 2022):

(I’m too lazy to upscale these, sorry :,D)

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Thank you for reading this far :)