#micelium

Micelium is a monster with two brains, in the “mushroom” and the “mouse.” The change it goes through is supposed to be how at first they have a fine relationship, but eventually grow angry at each other (the top head wanting more control, and the bottom head being annoyed). The last stage shows their compromise, and how they have equal control and are stronger because of it.

Powketroo was originally based off of a Nokemon (2nd stage), but I thought of it as a monster that was really curious, but that usually looks like it wanting to punch something. The older Powketroos put them in their pockets so they can calm down and don’t get in trouble. The first Powketroo has “kneepads” of fur

Design Pages:

Re-using Micelium’s old page, so I made an entire one for Powketroo. I’m not sure if I will continue to do it like this though. Please say if you prefer before/after or just the drawings ^^

MICELIUM:

Most of it is already said here. The only changes here are that

Micelium 1 has a brighter color

Micelium 3 has claws on it’s feet (not sure why it wasn’t there in the first place-)

POWKETROO

Powketroo 1 is the same (besides the eyes), no before and after, I’m not sure if I like the desaturated blue more or not I’m happy with it either way though

Powketroo 2 gets pupils, and its also a bit more straight and less round. It also gets kangroo claws, and has fur on it’s knees (?), showing that it doesn’t need the kneepads from the first stage anymore. The tail also isn’t curled up all the time.

Powketroo 3 has the most changes: the earbrow’s fluff goes on the bottom, it gets pupils. The shoulder fluffs do not have a yellow accent, the yellow feathers on the first one at the back of it’s tail are just a big tuft of fur now, and it gets claws on its paws. Also, it is usually it’s big tail, that’s similar to an arm. I think it looks more intimidating and unique now

Foils:

Foils were explained in Luscangel’s and Poltegoat’s post, but to sum it up, they’re basically shinies from Pokemon.

Micelium: It’s first Foil is based off of your typical zombie- greens and purple for rotting skin and guts, with the mushroom being brain colored. The second foil is a palette swap with Powketroo- this was hard to do for both of them because they don’t share the same amount of colors, and because colors on one doesn’t really look the best on the other. I think it turned out okay though. The third one is based off of the Foil I gave it in my first post for it, but I modified the colors a bit and I’m happier with how it is now. Lab Rat Micelium isn’t really anymore though.

Powketroo: The first Foil didn’t have an idea in mind. I didn’t know what to do so I just went to a color palette generator. second one is with Micelium’s colors- this one was hard to do but i ended up not using the pink since the other three are more relevant to Micelium. The third one is supposed to represent Physical typing, which is basically like the fighting type from Pokemon. I associated orange with it, and black/white because of karate uniforms, but it kind of looks more like a fox? I think with the other combinations i tried looked worse, so I’m happy :)

Pixel Art

MICELIUM: 1′11″ / 58 cm, 3′7″ / 109 cm , 7′5″ / 226 cm

POWKETROO: 2′5″ / 75 cm, 3′11″ / 119 cm, 7′9″ 236 cm

Micelium sprites from ~June 2022

Micelium-1

-the ears are more circular -the mushroom has a lighter color

Micelium-2

-Colors between the mouse and the mushroom are more saturated to contrast with each other because of how they don’t get along -white marks under eyes look like eye bags+whiskers -the blue on the right ear shows how the mushroom brain controls it -fur is more spiky and goes into white (”stress hairs”) -tail is spikier as well. supposed to make it look more angry

Micelium-3