I've been studying Komodo Dragons (and other Monitor Lizards) as reference reptiles for drawing Morphs, and man, these lizards are so cool, and really helpful with my art too!
I've worked on adjusting the snout length, making the nose shorter, and I'm testing out different positions for the nostrils and the auditory opening (it's always further back than I think it is), and now I'm working on teeth!
Komodo Dragons have really intresting teeth, observe:
First of all, sorry about the skull, I couldn't find any pictures of live Dragons showing off their teeth. But, their teeth go in a two big, two small pattern along the jaw, sorta like a really big serrated knife. And their teeth are very curved back, more so than I would've thought. So that's been very intresting.
I'm also working on drawing open Morph jaws, because I'm alright at drawing them when they have their mouths closed, but open jaws just kills me. So I'm working on the angles and how far open the jaws should be for different things the character might be doing (e.g. how far open should the jaw be for shouting vs how far open should they be when the person is just talking, etc).
But my Morphs are slowly but surely coming to life, and looking more and More like they do in my head, lol. I think I might have some good art to post soon!
|| part 1 || part 2 || part 3 || part 4 coming soon... ||
man sabo really thought he'd get away from ace that easy, huh? well tough shit buddy you just got the attention of one of the most stubborn men on the seas. i do wonder how this'll play out now that sabo's cornered... hehe >;3
textless versions below the cut for those who want to look at. pictures <3
(skipped page 5 due to. y'know. it not having any dialogue)
The "All this could have been avoided, all I wanted was to talk" part is based on the fact that like. Chara clearly wasn't in the best mental state when they fell into the Underground, and throwing the added expectation of being "the future of humans and monsters" definitely didn't help much. While the Dreemurrs were a great family for them, I don't think they were able to provide Chara with what they needed in that moment, and their feeling responsible for sacrificing their life to help their family was the result of that. And maybe if things had been different, they wouldn't have followed through with their plan in the end.
Ummmm tldr: they needed therapy. <3 Or at least someone who could understand what they went through a little better.
The story behind this vid (also on YT) is short but fascinating, so strap in. I made this doodle; I don't remember why, I think general Overlord discussion, but it happened-
and showed it to my friends. @cookieclover asked what it would take to get me to animate him saying something, one thing let to another, and we settled on an animation trade - and here's my part; the above abomination speaking a line from a Ted Nivison video. I really enjoy doing lipsync, so it was fun, but possibly my favourite part was coming up with the thumbnail: