Bogleech.com article previews are the very least I can do for you guys, so here's five Pokemon reviews I've not yet published, uploaded to a patrons-only directory. Ads and comments are disabled on these, but you can leave feedback here or wait for their official uploads:
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2023-01-13 21:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostNEW: $5 patrons and up will get some short, weird fiction writing every single month! These will be collected and "published" at the end of the year! Many are "list format" horror because that seems to be what I'm best at. Hope you don't mind weird lists of things with a loose narrative!
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On the early morning of April 12th, 2004, pr...
2023-01-09 19:04:42 +0000 UTC View PostThis will be going up on itch.io on October 31st, but you can get it early here, at least as PDF! It collects some stories I never made public before, but several have been shared here on Patreon over the years. At the end, detailed thoughts and even a few drawings about the stories included!
2022-10-21 09:51:42 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a story that came to me spontaneously...but only its first half. The second half isn't merely unfinished, but doesn't even have a concept yet! I've been considering inviting people to come up with their own continuation or monster as kind of a mini writing contest, but I'm not sure. Another thing I've considered is reworking it into basically just a rundown of multiple "cases," like the...
2022-09-15 08:29:30 +0000 UTC View Post
When I first designed Vampiathan, I really wasn't sure what I wanted to do for a whale-based monster, or how to make a whale seem "vampiric." What makes a whale most interesting is that so much of it is a huge mouth, so in the end I just made the mouth a bit more "alien" by making it tripartate, and then I made the rest of the creature unsettlingly wrinkly. The idea of a huge vampire swallowing...
2022-07-04 05:33:13 +0000 UTC View Post
I've still been hard at work updating a lot of Mortasheen artwork, here's a closer look at the cockroach-based Arthropoid.
Karacha went through a few designs in the setting's early years, mostly more "serious" and "cool" looking before I decided to go cartoonier, giving them an Ed Roth "Rat Fink" style, envisioning them as mischievous gremlin-like troublemakers.
They also had actu...
https://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/eyezome.htm
This is the smaller counterpart to Parasidious, but I wasn't satisfied just tracing over the original art. I'm not sure if I like its new mouth more than the old mouth, even if it's not a big change, but I'm happy with how the rest turned out, especially ...
2022-01-12 11:43:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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I've been satisfied with this design since I drew its greyscale version nearly a decade ago, so its full color artwork traces over much of the original drawing. It's supposed to evoke something that could have been a human, before brain parasites...
Work on so many things at once really slowed down custom Patron rewards, to the point that some people have waited up to a year for some requests to be finished, and that's really not acceptable on my part. As a compensation, I'd like to offer credit for my etsy store to anyone who's been a patron; everyone with outstanding requests can optionally have a pin (or something of equivalent value) s...
2022-01-06 09:59:45 +0000 UTC View Post
This came out a little messy, but it's the first design that popped into my head. A decrepit old wizardly opossum, blind and hairless, maybe kind of undead, with the spirits of baby opossums riding around in the hat. Also with orb.
2022-01-06 09:32:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Requested forever ago, this is what this portable EEG device would look like as Awful Hospital Staff, latching on to someone's head to collect initial data before a more permanent (but probably weird) solution would be found. The eyeballs would rotate inwards to "look" at the patient's brain activity.
2022-01-06 09:30:08 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/mattoon.htm - Mattoon is technically one of the first Mortasheen monsters, and went through many more designs than I sadly even held onto over 20 some years. It's always been one of my favorites, and I originally thought of it as one of the "iconic" Bioconstructs, so I can...
2021-12-20 18:10:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Heartsucker is actually much, much older than Mortasheen - a doodle I made in 1998 (!) that was meant to be the combination of a flea and a kiwi bird, the Fleawi! By the time I added it to Mortasheen, my rule was that all arthropod creatures were hybridized with humans, but I kept the "kiwi shaped" design because it still had sort of humanoid qualities to me, its beak sort of like an exaggerate...
2021-11-29 09:01:54 +0000 UTC View Post
I think of Clampire as one of the most fundamental Mortasheen vampires, but was never quite into the design I gave it. This new design is modeled after the swimming larval stage of certain bivalves, which really do have two big wing-like lips with a single pair of eyespots! I've combined this with the intense colors of some tropical scallops, made the shell spiny and nasty looking, and I've rei...
2021-11-29 08:43:24 +0000 UTC View PostIf you supported the kickstarter, you've probably seen this, but I'd also like to share it with all $10 plus Patreon patrons! Currently just available here as an RTF text file:
2021-11-29 08:39:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm having SO much difficulty settling on the base color for this monster's body! A real flea looks pitch black until it's in direct light, and then it's usually a translucent amber. I can't seem to pick a middle ground that I like, especially for a human/flea hybrid that might not retain the exact colors of either creature anyway.
I designed this monster with its "helmet" removable, too...
All seven of the original Devilbirds have now been updated, and I'll be putting them all up on here eventually!
The original design for Lust combined a baby, a heart, and a hummingbird, but not all that well in my opinion. My standards for creature design evolved so much and far beyond a point where "creepy human baby" was all that effective to me anymore.
The new Lust more fully ...
Harold first appeared as a dummy lying in the corner of Jay's Hospital room, and was mentioned in his journals as something he used to talk to, then something he was taking out his aggression on. This references the real-world horror folk tale of Harold the scarecrow, made more famous by Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
Harold, in the original story, slowly came to life becaus...
Just for patreon patrons (and all tiers!) here's a whole dozen "retro gameboy" Mortasheen sprites of my own. By the time the RPG releases, there will be a sprite for every monster in the initial book, so this is also a spoiler for some of "generation one" - at least for people who recognize them all :)
2021-06-12 02:10:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The 13 Demishades are now set to be the "starters" of the Mortasheen RPG, and the last one I've adjusted for it is Pteranormal, the demishade representing Ectosaurs. This just meant a little more outrageous of a visual "personality," and a larger head and torso to reflect that it's now a little bit smaller; something more easy to imagine as your starting companion.
Pteranormal's concept w...
2021-06-10 08:03:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This monster concept represents two major deviations from Mortasheen's "rules" thus far:
First, it's one of the legendary Boo Men, but not a bioconstruct; almost every monster class, some day, may get a Boo Man of its own.
Second, this is the plan for the Arthropoid entry, which means an Arthropoid outside the simple human-arthropod hybrid formula. This will be part of a subcatego...
"Scimitor" was one of the earliest Arthropoid monsters, and in dire need of an update in time for the RPG!
It will however be renamed in its final upload, to "Zokar," as a homage to Zorak.
Borrowing colors from real mantids, it also follows some real quirks of mantis anatomy that are seldom portrayed in fiction, like the fact that a mantid's famous "scythes" actually terminate in ...
My loose interpretation of the Selenian, Predicter, Storm Driver and Stargazer (Patron used four requests for these!)
2021-04-19 03:41:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Mumblegog, Gullywunk, and a further touched up Gezoond!
Something a bit different is being done with the final plagueman.
I deemed Mumblegog's existing art perfect as-is, so I colorized it without any design changes.
I remember adding the original Mumblegog to Mortasheen before plague doctors were even famous, it was so long ago! The name was goofy nonsense, rather than the...
A request for a slob that has suffered a specific combination of fractures and trauma, to both the left arm and the cranium!
2021-03-28 05:46:41 +0000 UTC View Post
A request for a giant, transparent invertebrates containing a garden of pitcher plants!
I had several sketch concepts of this I made months ago, but I don't know where they went :(
Sketch page of Cambrian and Ediacaran fauna!
2021-03-28 05:44:07 +0000 UTC View Post
A couple different concept designs for leech plague doctors, one of which I successfully mixed in with some Corvid, I think
2021-03-28 05:43:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Specifically for "summertime holidays," though I had a tough time thinking of good ones; so here's a hot dog, one of those ash snakes, and a gelatinous organism that imitates a burst of fireworks, probably by momentarily flashing with light.
2021-03-28 05:42:10 +0000 UTC View Post
A couple takes on How I'd design a Joker-class Mortasheen monster if it were inspired by a bong!
2021-03-28 05:40:46 +0000 UTC View Post