#skull owl

[skullnbonesta2]

Skull Owl

[fuckyeahursulavernon]

Noodling around with some character designs--one of these days I AM going to write "The Happy Little Capybara Visits Xilbalba" a children's book set in the Mayan underworld, just to prove I can do it. These two characters are the Mayan messenger, Skull Owl, who functions as a villain of the piece. (The Lords of Xilbalba are a bunch of bad dudes in their own right, but you can't pit a happy little capybara against the Scab Stripper or the Lord of Pain--it'd end with a happy little damp splat--so they're more of a neutral, creepy backdrop.) The other critter is called the Glorp. It started out with a severed skull growing on a tree, and ended up here. I'm trying to make the skulls on both sort of stylized and in the Glorp's case cheerful, because--well--I'm a stylized and cheerful sort.  I dunno if I'll stick to these designs--probably someone'll point out that they look exactly like X, and I'll scream and clutch my head and go try to change them--but that's always the problem with extreme stylization. Somebody's usually done it already. Still, gettin' my brain there, which is good... - Ursula Vernon