The Elk Of Birch And Bone

saint esther, first saint of the many below wound tree

once again, thank you so much to @spectralanomally for advising me on her wounds !!

speedpaint here

roakes sentinel has been on my mind for months now, im SO HAPPY to finally have it drawn out !!! prelim sketches + notes below the cut :]

i think it's pretty obvious, but this was very much informed by the dog thing from The Thing. Rob Bottin is a huge inspiration to me in terms of body horror

the crab and dogs arent based on any specific species or breed. that's the problem with dogs and crabs -- theyre so diverse, you can't draw them generic without making them look a little weird in one way or another. and then that means picking a specific species or breed, which invites speculation as to why, which means it has to be done with symbolism in mind, and sometimes i just wanna paint a big scary monster with nothing else to it, yknow?

the dogs are (in canon) embedded in the shell, which i forgot about when i was envisioning the sentinel to begin with. thank god for artistic license !! sorry jon ware my crab now

two siblings in a boat! surely nothing bad will happen to them

but on the other side

there’s them that lead and them that chase

I meant to keep up with sibling rane saturday but when I went to draw them i promptly blacked out and drew sister thurrocks instead

These were rabbits once. Hundreds, if not thousands, of rabbits. An impenetrable, twisting mass of hunger. The sound is unceasing. Chukka-chukka-chukka

timelapse below !!

Its crew are still onboard. It takes us time, in the dark, in the moonlight, to see just how thoroughly they have been changed.

One is attempting to scramble up the mast.  Another is bent halfway over the prow on his back, his mouth hanging open upside-down like an awful inverted figurehead.

well. i said i needed to draw some gore, didn't i? the diptych is now the donetych (< stupidest joke of my stupid baka life sorry) and i think im back in the saddle as it were. thank god wahoo !!

another chappell roan drawing because I’m obsessed with her

Carpenter the woman that you are… this isn’t even doing justice to the FEELINGS I got from this scene, the absolute POWER this woman holds.. but it’ll do