A fellow monster artist of mine, @tyrantisterror, drew this lovely girl for me for just $5, a third

A fellow monster artist of mine, @tyrantisterror, drew this lovely girl for me for just $5, a third of the usual $15 thanks to an ongoing sale - she’s part of an upcoming new project of mine that I’m largely keeping under wraps for now. But I can at least provide the gist of it here: Humankind’s subconscious is the source of a set of alternate dimensions a la Persona (with a smidge of @carnivorecreations’ defunct ID project; I got his approval to use the general concept as a basis for the worldbuilding of this one, don’t worry!). Everybody has a corresponding kaiju or monster in the mindscapes created from their deepest subconscious natures, of a variety of different types, but while people often become aware of their giant counterparts at some point in their lives, they can never really connect with them beyond dream-world interaction… or so everyone thinks. ;P

This is Guandon, the main character’s kaiju equivalent, a Prehistoric-type retrosaur - an herbivorous one, since I figured that plant-eating dinosaurs/retrosaurs need more love from a monster designer standpoint, ornithopods especially. The choice behind selecting a kind of animal everyone else sees as cannon fodder in dinosaur media as a design basis rather than, say, the bigger-name stars like T. rex or Stegosaurus is because the mindscape kaiju are based not on what their creators wish to be, but what they are truly like, and in the MC’s case this means being easily dismissed despite being capable in his own right. Guandon herself is a conglomerate of virtually every depiction if Iguanodon from the earliest to the most recent, with additional elements of actual iguanas (since the first depiction of Iguanodon was literally a giant iguana with a nose horn), obsolete aquatic hadrosaurs, and those iguana-Dimetrodon slurpasaurs from Journey to the Center of the Earth (1960). She’s rather high-strung and easily upset, but also very caring to those she gets to know personally. Also I’m getting a slight rocker girl vibe from her now and I love it, so I might play that up when I draw her official artwork - and I gotta say, TT did a wonderful job with her as it is!

I’ll start cranking out the details regarding this new project and several others after I take care of urgent IRL business, but in the meantime, feel free to stop by TT’s $5 sketch sale (assuming it’s still ongoing). And while I’m at it, allow me to shill his kaiju novel as well, ATOM Volume 1. His artwork, worldbuilding, and writing are absolutely amazing!

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