Okay tumblr wouldnāt let me publish this with all the images attached but this is obviously very important so Iāll do it as a screenshot.
Mutant neopets, one of my many practical and impressive areas of expertise, have long gone all out to the point of often being rather overwrought, and for people who donāt follow neopets, hereās an example of a more recent mutant pet, but probably my LEAST favorite of them:
ā¦.Which Iām not knocking as a design itself, but I am knocking as a āmutantā because what weāre clearly seeing here is more of a Space Balrog. For contrast, hereās some of my all-time favorites:
So, uh, back to this thing then:
This is the first mutant in two years, I know because āMutant Dayā is usually one of the only things I check back on neopets for, and obviously the art quality is kind of laughable compared to the standard theyāve established. This is to be expected after most of the siteās staff was laid off, of course, but come on, this looks like a 2002 neopet, not a 2015 neopet. It also looks an awful lot like all someone did was draw some stuff over the regular Wocky.
That said, there is a distinct charm to it, and I definitely prefer a poorly drawn but sort of simple, nasty mutant to another overdesigned Micheal Bay Space Balrog mutant.
I like that it has mouths for ears, and I like that it has a giant gross tongue. I think the awful tongue might actually be what saves it for me, otherwise you just have an angry dog-cat thing with a weird ruff.
5/10, a design that tried neither too hard nor hard enough but could look awesome in a more capable illustratorās hands. Hereās my 15 second notebook doodle take:
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