My favorite Hardenshipping song is, unironically, One Week by the Barenaked Ladies. The animatic is so vivid in my head.

I have paused the art wagon again because I fell back into Pokemon. Now I am entirely Pokemon-brained.

Scorpions are truly perfectly-crafted animals. There's nothing you can do to a scorpion to make it scarier or cooler in any way. Any strong alterations are an automatic downgrade. Even the Underking is somewhat restrained because I removed what the mouth would be on the scorpion part.

My favorite songs for the Underking are "Leviathan" by Dirt Poor Robins, which is how he would prefer to depict himself; and "Against the Kitchen Floor" by Will Wood, which is the more accurate reflection of his character arc lmao

Water Baron post

Underking post

Since I've been drawing my babies again I want to remind everyone what the rest of the Underking looks like

My favorite song for the Water Baron is "Rivers is a Vampire" by Bear Ghost. It's very much his vibe, and while I guess he isn't a vampire in the traditional sense, he is juicing the life force out of something else to keep himself beautiful. Close enough.

I spent two days drawing this and then pulled up the other two I'd already done and cracked myself the fuck up. They're so messy and he's so smooth and voluminous. His hair's also too short but I didn't want to go much further down.

Whenever I start making this thing for real I'll stop giving always all the secrets but for now I just like talking

Next I gotta do the Prince but I barely know what the Prince looks like even with his clothes on, so that's gonna be a doozy.

I spent two days drawing this and then pulled up the other two I'd already done and cracked myself the fuck up. They're so messy and he's so smooth and voluminous. His hair's also too short but I didn't want to go much further down.

My oversized arachnid... I'm still on the fence about exactly what his human body feels like. Is he squishy or is that more carapace made to look human? Both options are equally likely. If the Prince swung that glass sword at him it would shatter on impact either way.

I’m collecting responses to his design because they make me smile

My oversized arachnid... I'm still on the fence about exactly what his human body feels like. Is he squishy or is that more carapace made to look human? Both options are equally likely. If the Prince swung that glass sword at him it would shatter on impact either way.

Since I've been drawing my babies again I want to remind everyone what the rest of the Underking looks like

I just remembered that I have the original sketch of him saved too, if anyone wants a peek into the Sh1n1 Process for something like this.

It occurred to me that I have two completely different explosion-themed characters who are both Water-themed instead of, like, Fire-themed. That's probably the Megaman Fan coming out in me. Love you always and forever Pirateman

Anyone who feels like a trip down Sh1n1 Character Lore, I went on and on about some this morning

Tonight I draw the Water Baron shirtless and then describe the hilarious mental loops I had to jump through to get there because he is a special boy

The Flame Popess is the one who united the Four. Two hundred years before the story began she went on a worldly pilgrimage, stopping in each major settlement in turn and seeking out the most powerful entity in the area. Though she looks mostly human, she, too, is a beast, and was drawn to them.

The cruelest thing I ever did to the Underking was put him in the Enigma Infanta story instead of in Lolopolo where everyone would've wanted to fuck him. 😔 Sorry bro. You'll find a man someday.

The Prince fucks off for reasons unknown, the Underking is like, oh god, I no longer have an Ace in the Hole. The Water Baron is like, hell yeah, I don't have anyone who can tell me what to do anymore. And the Flame Popess was just already crazy and was only being held back by the three of them

Take him. I have to stop. The Prince of the Aether! Despite being designated a prince, he is fully integrated into the society over which he presides, unlike the other three elemental beasts. This is because he himself is half human. Accordingly, he also has a human name: Aquila!

And there you have it. I started working on these guys when I was a teenager and here they are, finally all together. What should I call them? Lords? Beasts? Dragons, even? I still haven't decided.

Put his ass through the car wash

Went to search "vampire teeth" to get some ideas on how people draw that sort of anatomy and it autofilled to "vampire shrimp." Not what I was looking for, but, also... sort of

Aquila is an artist and cultivates a culture of expression. The emblem on his belt is fused glass, and the blade in his sword is glass, too. The Faberge Egg he's holding there was designed by his fiancée Andromeda.

Shirtless Underking getting 10 likes makes me smile, if he'd had the Internet crowd during that 300 years of solitude maybe he wouldn't have been so lonely. What is that post that's like "I just imagined a creature that would scare you soooo bad"/"And what's the genitals situation on said creature"

Aquila is an artist and cultivates a culture of expression. The emblem on his belt is fused glass, and the blade in his sword is glass, too. The Faberge Egg he's holding there was designed by his fiancée Andromeda.

Now I just gotta redraw Alexis again (her design is not changing, although at some point she does get an outfit upgrade, but that's not replacing her original design). And then there is one more person that I don't believe I've mentioned at all thus far... Mysterious.

Their boss titles include some clues on what their respective boss forms will be like, or where their stories go to make boss creatures with such titles. What makes her a "molten legion?" What the fuck is going on with the Water Baron? You'll find out!

I think "Elemental Lords" is the best descriptor, especially since three out of four have some sort of title of nobility attached to them. The Flame Popess is different, and I think she would call them all "beasts" (herself included) because she's insecure about her own lacking monstrousness

And there you have it. I started working on these guys when I was a teenager and here they are, finally all together. What should I call them? Lords? Beasts? Dragons, even? I still haven't decided.

And a fun Water Baron design fact: I realized I wasn't going to get the silhouette I wanted from his hat from the back because I made the silhouette on the front too specific, so I gave him a weird hat so I can draw it like that anyway.

Another fun thing I love about my Underking is that his normal eye gives him slightly more restrained expressions, but his left eye is extremely expressive and betrays his every emotion whether he wants to or not. That's why she gets his most emotive and authentic self from carting it around.

I guess my "bathing" drawings are also for showing off their weird monster teeth. That appears to be the connecting thread between the two I've done so far. Okay, sure.

Because he's an immortal monster/demigod, the Underking doesn't have to do things like eat or sleep. One thing Alexis tries to impart is that just because you don't have to do something to survive doesn't mean you can't do it because it's fun and it's nice to take care of yourself.

Thank you everyone for enduring my massive wave of art. I have a lot of drawing energy I gotta express after months of not doing any at all.

Drawing as much shit as I physically possibly can before I crash

Put his ass through the car wash

The Prince is based on a swallow, both the bird and the butterfly.

Aquila's the only one with a real human name, although the Underking does pull out the name Orion in an attempt to disguise his actual identity. This lasts very briefly but Alexis brings it up every once in a while. The other two don't have human names.

Astute observers will notice that the four of them make up a CYMK color scheme. The reason for this is, I accidentally did yellow, pink, and black completely incidentally and didn't have a color picked out for the Prince, so he got light blue. Like the sky!

Take him. I have to stop. The Prince of the Aether! Despite being designated a prince, he is fully integrated into the society over which he presides, unlike the other three elemental beasts. This is because he himself is half human. Accordingly, he also has a human name: Aquila!

I actually have illustrated song comics planned out for three different songs for these guys but one of them is like 23 pages long for a 5 minute song so that's a pipe fucking dream. The others are just for a few lines and are accessible.

No one asked me this but the idea popped into my head and I laughed

"Do they fuck?" Prince - Yes Underking - Yes but only men and not often for obvious reasons Popess - Saving herself for her "soulmate" Baron - Organizes an all-male orgy then shows up with a tape measure and a survey on previous sex partners and personal preferences. After that, it's anyone's guess

I have so many homunculus characters that I can almost rival Fullmetal Alchemist. I have six across my two stories. If I can find a spot to introduce two more........

Once I finish the Prince then I gotta draw them all shirtless because it's not fair that I only did it to the girl. The boys shall not be spared