#impossible creatures

Another year another invisobang! I was so stoked to be paired up with summerssixecho and sillysugargliders for this year's bang, and decided to create 1-2 illustrations for each chapter of Summer's fic Impossible Creatures.

Summary:

When Dani ends up asking Valerie for a place to stay, Val wasn't expecting to uncover more questions than answers about who this half-ghost girl is or where she really came from.

Thank you to the mods for another awesome event, and thank you to my partners for being awesome to work with!! Its been a blast~ :3c

(And if you haven't already seen it, def check out sillysugargliders piece for the fic! They did a whole animatic and it turned out so cool!!!)

Praise for Katherine Rundell's new nonfiction bestiary of extraordinary animals, VANISHING TREASURES

Here's the cover art I did for The Poisoned King, Book 2 of Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell, out today! In addition to the cover I also did 30 b+ w interior illustrations. It's been such a delight illustrating so many fantastic creatures, there should be more in the future as well!

Praying Mantis - Impossible Creatures

That's a mantis alright! Its parts provide a leaping attack and an immunity to poison to the resulting chimera. Most insects have poison immunity in this game. At least that makes pesticide an nonviable option against them.

A mantis hybrid is actually the first creature to be shown properly in-game! The wolf-scorpion technically appeared first but it was mostly hidden. It's the big reveal at the start, the first proper look both the player and the protagonist get at just what kind of Impossible Creatures this game will have.

i played soooooo much of this game as a 10~ yo, but only ever the generic maps or with a friend. the campaign was way too hard for me and nearly too hard for me as a 30~ yo. but i did it!!!

my boyfriend made me some art to celebrate featuring my MVP, the whalobster.

here's my original copy of the game (i actually played the steam edition which includes fixes for modern systems).