Sometimes y’gotta admire your wings, especially when you’re a shiny batyote!
Commission for Kay Ohtie! I had a lot of fun with this <3
This was also streamed over on Twitch! Check out VoD 1 and 2!
Typo, artist, somewhat fluffy
So this was originally meant to be for Bowser Day but uh, I let scope run a bit too much
So now it’s an early Halloween pic ‘cus I can just say that because I’m the artist and I say so. We’ve had me as a (royal?) koopa before but that was a lot more hedgehog like, and also when the fangs were significantly shorter. So I wanted to do something a bit more batty and vampire-like oh noooooo
I really have a bad habit of letting scope creep happen in personal projects lol.
🔞 NSFW alt under the cut 🔞
So while a heatwave was going on (haha first 40C day in the UK while we have no way to deal with that…) I was working on a Bowser Day pic
Combine: Koopa + Hedgehog. Specifically I more went off Giga Bowser’s form (long tail, chonky legs)
And then I made it silly
In my attempts to push through burnout I decided to actually to try and do Bowser Day this year and redraw this piece from 2014
So what’s going on with that fire DO? The implication is that it’s an illusion, something I didn’t really pull off in 2014 honestly, and I think? I pulled it off this time???
Also originally I went with the eye colour for the shell and honestly? I don’t think that works on the original so went with the darker colour I use for Marcus and I think it looks much better.
Final changes? Extra chonk, and hopefully a slightly more dynamic pose to it. That relaxed arm on the old version just, doesn’t fit (pretending to) breathing fire, but I think having it flex a little upwards shows a much more “in charge” pose and much more actively in to it really.