CORRUPTION
When in a rather stubborn spell of art block, I tend to fall back on two reliable methods. Usually, I just start drawing skulls. Sometimes, I start toying with different techniques and styles. This time around, both stars aligned for me and inspired me to make this series centered around otherworldly, crystalline corruption.
The skull was my first one, and I admittedly had Darkest Dungeon's Color of Madness in mind while working on it. This one is where the crosshatching, piercing crystals, and floating elements in the other two were pulled from. I simply called this one "Corruption."
The bird was a difficult one, as finding a pose that felt like it was trying to take off, only for it to be arrested by the crystals pinning its foot was a grueling search. Not to mention trying to shade feathers by hatching. Still, I certainly enjoyed the process, and left me motivated to start and finish the third. I called this one "Ensnared."
When thinking of a title for the third, only "Extinction" felt fitting. The life cycle of a cicada, from infant, to pupa, to molting, and one failed flight, all ruined due to the infectious crystals. Though they don't outright kill their hosts, the crystals interfere and taint the course of life, replacing feathers or fruit with their otherworldly corruption.
