#polyclew

[lylefan2]

♥️🪱

[king-magppi]

Sometimes I think about how they're all victims of a messed up circumstance and go a little crazy.👁🪱

(Original draft + words about the piece below)

So I started this with the thought of "hey what if I drew that one sprite where Rafta is going in Nestor's eye except she's a person and she's kissing/licking it? Sticking her tongue in there?" Well I did a Google search and apparently there's a name for the licking of eyeballs and it's called "worming". Yes, "worming". She is worming him. I KNEW what had to be done about this. I immediately started the draft and went to bed. The next morning I revised it with new eyes and decided it needed to be more Violent to really capture what I was going for. It needed to be uglier, messier.... so that's what I did! Rafta's eyes are closed because she is unaware/oblivious to how much this is hurting Nestor. The deal with Nestor's more deadpan expression in the final is bc like. Hes sortof making himself numb to it. Like dissociation. On Rafta's closed eyes again: I dont want to paint Rafta as an evil villain because that's not what she is. She didn't know this would happen. She didn't know what she's feeling and she's just as much a victim as Nestor is. None of them Asked to be Turned Into Worms. This is "love".

[beefy-the-stronk]

OKAY let's try this again- got this to the quality and finesse I originally wanted 👍

Anyways, this was a Secret Santa gift for my cool friend @langel2 from back in December. She wanted something romantic or tragic related to the worm subplot from LO, so why not do a mix of both? Something to capture the yearning, love, horror, and despair that these 3 endured.

Oh yeah and here's a tiny nestor doodle cus idk where else to put this

[magyks]

sketches of two men that deserve a vacation

[langel2]

Basically what happened

[binglesmile]

Together forever and never to part

[benzenedreaming]

🪱POLYCLEW🪱

The dear worms; Nestor, Eugene and Rafta. How I love u.

This piece started out so simple and then I went insane in a good way. The concept for this was that it’s not so much a literal picture but more representative. It’s kind of how the worm crew see themselves, in “love” and “on dates” and things - particularly Nestor and Rafta. They’re seemingly living in ecstasy even though to the outside observer, they’re horrifying. ❤️

[weirdagnes]

The same worms that eat me will someday eat you too They gonna eat you

Nibbled on your feet and they nibbled on my toes They become the same when our bodies decompose You'll turn into dirt someday, same dirt as me Like one becomes a two and a two becomes a three

Worms - Viagra Boys

Gift art for @langel2 !✨

Other versions:

I tried using gradient map just to see the hype, but I don't like using it so instead I ended up mix-matching a bunch of bullshit blend modes together until it works :P

The challenge was to base off the art from a song in Angel’s (peak) polyclew playlist. The skeleton detail is kinda buried underneath all that oop but I wanted it to represent decomposition and the worms as death. The song describes inevitability of it.

The orange glow in their chests is love, blooming in the process of consumption. Death is not the end and they’re not alone when it happens, because the worms that consumed one is the same that consumed the other.

Death looks scary with its teeth and slime and wriggling form; its persisting want to be embraced by your insides.

But death is to be remade with love, rebirth as one being, and that’s who the worm polycule became.

Alr yap over and out🫡