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Painchild: Mortasheen #004

“Like the mysterious Shades who toil in Mortasheen city's inner workings, the Demishades consist mostly of a crystalloid skeleton and organs suspended in an energy-absorbing fluid matrix, resembling beings of pitch darkness outside of their protective biofiber skins.“

Now that seems like my kind of monster! The first of the Demishades, and though my favorites among them are probably Pathocary and Emeyebee, Painchild stood out due to being the first. Also, by being a faithful starter of many trainers.

The reasons behind their name may not be apparent in their design, but they become apparent one you read more of their description.

One thing you can see right away in their design though it their bird-like feet and arms. And that’s because each demishade is connected to a different class of Mortasheen monsters, and Painchild is connected to Devil Birds. Neat!

I thought I’d probably want one if they weren’t so high maintenance!

But also...

It was around then, I think, that I read Bogleech talking about how there are also a lot of dark things in the pokedéx, even though the games are pretty light. And I was wondering how I would think of mortasheen creatures had I met them in a game. I’d probably see their designs differently, too, if I saw them with the limited color palette and less details, as I would have if it was a game boy game like Pokémon or Dragon Warrior Monsters...

So I decided to see how they would look! And that’s when I started drawing fanart of them in this style. (If you’d like to see what else I did since then, it’s all in my art blog: http://dagazzart.tumblr.com/tagged/mortasheen)

Soon that made me think of mortasheen monster through another angle, besides creativity of the concepts or biology: game mechanics. And that led to further appreciation of some of them!

Mortasheen and its monsters are the property of Bogleech.

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So, in other news, I have been working in Sculptris on trying to learn it, and here is the first major thing I made in it, Painchild from @bogleech‘s Mortasheen stuff!

While it is wildly off-model, lacking such things as the ear-holes on the sides and the tail, I’m still kinda proud of it. And yes, I will be probably releasing it, as soon as I can find somebody to rig it...

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The painchild got company now! A chignoble! My plan with this was to make pixel art approximately in the style (size and number of colors) of Dragon Warrior Monsters of Mortasheen’s colored monsters (so I can have color reference and also 'cause the design is less likely to change). Since there are a zillion number of monsters, I decided it would be easier if I’d go by class. Painchild is a bioconstruct so I decided to try an arthropoid so I can get the first ones alphabetically. There are no colored biomechas so I think I’ll try a botanical next... I have one in mind...

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