Mud-Girl Mulch (Patreon)

Mud-Girls, or Dryads in their official classification, are a curious breed of forest-dwelling monster. Their kindly, gentle appearance may be genuine, but is nonetheless misleading. Dryads are easily one of the most devastating monster-girls to get eaten by. Their down-to-earth guts deal way more damage than you might expect!
Here's a closer look at their abilities:

Attractive Rock:
A series of three projectiles, launched individually from the Dryad's muddy lower-half, towards a heroine's general direction. A direct hit from just one, throws the unfortunate warrior straight back toward the Mud-Girl! Only luck will save you from being thrown directly into a tight, muddy embrace.

Mud Spout:
A shock-wave, focused around the Dryad's immediate proximity. Any heroine caught in it's short, yet effective range, is helplessly thrown straight onto the awaiting Mud-Girl.

Fascination Milk:
Not strictly an attack. It's more a means of subduing prey... You'll know it when you see it~

This image shows one such Mud-Girl, happily massaging her soft, bloated gut. There's a struggling heroine stuffed inside her stomach at this very moment! However, the Dryad's prey is in no danger, just slightly inconvenienced for a little while. How you may ask? Simply put, the heroines in Echidna Wars DX have it easy!

Throughout their adventures, each brave heroine is bound to get eaten a LOT. There's never a shortage of hungry beasties waiting to swallow a heroic warrior, whole and alive.

But, if there's enough stamina or health left, the beastie that did the swallowing has to spit their wriggling meal back out.
The occasional outfit might suffer from being drenched in stomach juices, but fighting in the nude is something all four warriors can do, no problem~ >;3

Such a troublesome luxury. What an unfair advantage for a heroine to have... no wonder that some of the beasties, every now and then, feel like being playfully stubborn~ ♥

This is exactly what the pictured Mud-Girl is up to. She's swallowed one of the four cheeky heroines, but her prey still had more than enough health to survive being eaten. All that's left is to let her back out, and continue the fight... but the Dryad's not in the mood for that yet. She's decided to hold on to her spunky, energetic prey a little while longer.

The poor, annoyed warrior can struggle and complain all she likes. She can't break out on her own. The Mud-Girl gets to decide when that happens. Ironically, the more she squirms, the longer she's bound to stay stuck in there e//3//e This might take a while.

...*sigh* Some player-characters never learn~...

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I tried something very different with this sketch. In a previous livestream, I received a lot of helpful feedback, namely on how I could hone or refine my approach. Taking those pointers to heart, I feel this is the closest I've ever gotten to that "sketchy" aesthetic I've been trying to find o///o
The drawing is really rough, but that's the point. I'm super happy with the way this came together.

These are the points I kept in mind while working on this:
- Make way more conservative use of zooming-in, avoid it wherever possible.
- Do not obsess with fine details. Not zooming-in helps overcome this effectively.
- Larger-than-usual brush, around 70-80% opacity.
- Avoid Ctrl-Z! Use an eraser with pressure-sensitivity to refine where appropriate.
- Earthy colors, feels more like real paper.
- Only subtle color and highlights. Create contrast and depth with lineart instead.

These points helped make for a pleasantly organic drawing experience, and it all took about 45 minutes to put together! :D I'll be messing around with this approach a lot more in the future.

I really hope you like it! Let me know what you think! ^ , ^b