Hi-res Mortasheen and Notes: Eyezome (Patreon)

https://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/eyezome.htm

This is the smaller counterpart to Parasidious, but I wasn't satisfied just tracing over the original art. I'm not sure if I like its new mouth more than the old mouth, even if it's not a big change, but I'm happy with how the rest turned out, especially my decision for the snail shell to more smoothly transition into the creature's flesh. It basically uses the shell like a "peg leg," but it can do all sorts of dangerous moves with it.

I don't think of either Parasidious or Eyezome as having actual snail DNA in them, but they're still "molluscoids," in the same sense that you can have a "humanoid" that isn't even a mammal.

Oddly, I first came up with this design years back as something entirely unrelated to Mortasheen: I wondered what a snail character might have looked like in the 80's Ninja Turtles action figure line, and drew some inspiration from WYRM ( https://turtlepedia.fandom.com/wiki/Wyrm_(1991_action_figure) ) ....I no longer have those doodles, but they were a bit more Turtles style, with tattered clothes and goofier, non-parasitized eyestalks.

PSD attached!

Though it wasn't originally created as such, I think of this as kind of the most "general" Wormbrain class monster, the Wormbrain type specimen.