Fakemon Concept Art: Toxic Ice By MopMaster Watch

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Like an oil spill that can chase you around. Diet consists of fish, birds, and cowering explorers.



Type: Poison/Water for the first form, Poison/Ice for the evolutions.



Info: "What?! That's just a Grimer smeared on some ice boulders!" Correct! While brainstorming for an Ice/Poison type, I kept thinking of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and wondered what it would be like if the spilled oil was mildly intelligent and hunted things. One other thing that came to mind were the Shoggoths of HP Lovecraft. Arctic blob monsters able to form limbs and organs at will.

For a while, the idea was freakish ice-golems with toxic ooze flowing through the cracks in their bodies, then I tooled around with the idea of a Poison/Water type that crawled onto a glacier and froze into an Ice monster. One of the things I wanted to keep in mind while designing it was to give them abstract body shapes. Didn't do a great job of that with the water form, because it looks like some kind of octopus. The second form looks kinda meh, but is more of a step in the right direction. The third form is partially based on an old design for coconut creatures I made in highschool (don't ask), and looks sufficiently abstract to me.



"But how do these things work?" Well, good question hypothetical viewer. I imagine the first form is born from pollutants dumped into the arctic sea, or even from naturally occurring environmental disasters. Its head... sack... thing is filled with air, which allows it to float around and... do things? I guess it eats things in typical blob fashion by oozing over the prey's body and just absorbing it, like in that Steve McQueen movie.

After accumulating enough mass it moves onto a glacier or ice floe, and begins collecting chunks of ice into a solid body. Presumably so it can stay cool and moist on dry land. As you can see, it's still getting the hang of keeping itself together. While I'm not thrilled with how the design came out, I liked working on this one the most, those colors go so nicely together.

By the time it reaches its third form, it's strong enough to carry ice boulders, and form stable limbs, though it can still be oozy if it needs to. My first draft of this form had a giant eye on the side of the big ice boulder on the top, and a sort of mane of tentacles on the back end. It looked essentially like a giant squid on its side with tripod limbs growing out of its mantle. Since I'm already making a giant squid 'mon, I tweaked it a bit so that they wouldn't look too similar, and people wouldn't think of me as 'the squid guy'.

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Published : Oct 12, 2016