Hi-res Mortasheen and Notes: Parasidious (Patreon)

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

I've been satisfied with this design since I drew its greyscale version nearly a decade ago, so its full color artwork traces over much of the original drawing. It's supposed to evoke something that could have been a human, before brain parasites distorted it into a "snail."

I always imagined it with a pinkish-yellow skin tone, but didn't end up liking that when I tried it, went through a few other color schemes and finally just messed around with color values until the whole thing looked like the translucent flesh of a bruised cadaver.

One difference between the two designs is how the eyestalks connected to the head; the new one is more like a real gastropod, flesh smoothly transitioning into the tentacles, and a shading effect gives the impression of the parasitic brood sacs continuing down into the body :)

PSD file available to download! You can find some of the alternate color layers in there, too.