Some mutated critters from my YA lovecraftian horror comic set in 90s New England.
Mutagenic ooze is seeping into the town of Cherry Creek and mutating normal New England wildlife into terrifying monsters. The Cherry Creek Middle School Paranormal Investigation Club sets out to discover, catalogue, and tame all of the mutated cryptids and hopefully find the source of the toxic ooze before it permanently infects everything (and everyone) in town.
I want to base all the “cryptids” the Club discovers on real animals and their attributes in New England’s different ecosystems.
At first, the animals just seem weird, strange, a little “off”. Over time, exposure to the ooze causes these creatures to get bigger, meaner, and much more dangerous. (all the beginning stage creatures shown here are newly mutated, their final stages are after only a few weeks of exposure)
I also love folklore and cryptids and I really love the idea of this club of dorky middle school cryptid hunters assigning names like “bigfoot”, “mothman”, and “hodag” to these monsters so can try and contextualize something they don’t really understand. Soon the club realizes these aren’t fun isolated critters but symptoms much larger impending ecological disaster!
I picture it like pokemon evolution, going from a cute water turtle to a kaiju which is a lot for a ten year old to handle.
Which is your favorite? What cryptid would you wanna see? What animal should I “Cryptify” next? lmk what you think!
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CHERRY CREEK PARANORMAL REDESIGN
Characters for the YA cosmic horror comic I’m writing with @sky_theis
It’s been a while and the story/art has gone thru a lot of changes but I’m committing to posting more by showing off the latest designs :))
It’s about a club of middle school misfits and their quest to uncover the secrets lurking beneath their town in 1990s New England.
Inspired by my love of Goosebumps, Gravity Falls, Twin Peaks, Annihilation, Hilda, Hellboy, X-Files, Lovecraft/Weird Fiction/Cosmic Horror, Stephen King, Weekly World News, conspiracy theories, cryptid-sightings, true crime, and all things creepy. More to come!
Lmk what you think
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Happy #PortfolioDay
I’m Adrian, a Latino illustrator/2D artist based in NYC and I do VisDev, illustration, and comics. I love 80s movies, scifi books, and all things spooky. Let me draw your #kidlit book!
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Part 1 of a dumb little comic about two critters lost in a dangerous dungeon
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Development for a children’s book I’m working on for school about a tiny spaceman on a tiny asteroid
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Exploring your practice through exhibiting is a key part of many of our programmes. So Student Content Creator, MA (Hons) Illustration student Grace @grasmuelliece , chatted to two of her coursemates, Wrenn @wrennillosss and Adrian @itsadrianramirez117 , to find about the work-in-progress they put on show during ‘Taking Shape’, an exhibition in ECA’s Sculpture Court.
From gentle light through windows, to towering haunted houses, join them as they talk about developing their ideas through the exhibition and beyond!
Thanks for sharing, Grace, Wrenn and Adrian 🫶
* ECA’s Student Content Creators are paid for their work.
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