#lizard rainworld

[Image description: Pixel art of the Gourmand from Rain World falling onto an unsuspecting green lizard. The Gourmand is depicted with reddish brown eyes & the green lizard has tendrils on their head. The Gourmand is a chubby, dough-colored slugcat & the green lizard has mostly black scales, with a green head and lower legs & green spots on their body & tail. The green lizard's upper teeth are black & exposed. End of image description]

I had quite some trouble with this one. I knew I wanted to draw at least two of them to showcase that they are the only lizards in the game that live in social groups.

In a more realistic setting, I imagine the orange lizard would exhibit the most sexual dimorphism, due to its social group structure, with a clear dominant member that has longer antennae than the others. The alpha might need to be larger to chase off competing males.

Perhaps their social group consists of a dominant male with a harem of multiple females, similar to what’s observed in species like the common side-blotched lizard, which even has three types of males.

Tumblr butchered the quality. click for a better quality

Palette by @chicken-mc-nuggets

With Palette underneath the cut

[Image description: Two messy drawings, identical except the one on the left has a slightly warmer color palette & the one on the right has a slightly cooler color palette. They both depict an eel lizard poking their head out of the green water as a caramel lizard watches from the ledge above. There are orangey yellow plants growing out of the water, and dark purple vines hanging from the ceiling. End of image description]

rain world art month day 12! today's prompt was "new lizards", so I made this messy drawing of some downpour lizards in garbage wastes