Zombie Snake Punch

 

Battle Damage

 

Monster Morph in the Dark Cave

 

This is one of those times I notice what people are talking about when they say things look different on different monitors. There is a significant difference between my PC monitor and my iPad when it comes to the darkness of the shadows in the cave. The shadows are significantly darker on the iPad (even at max brightness), so when I first posted I didn't realize how light they looked on my monitor. Darkened it up more, left the first image for comparison.

Submarine Armor

 

Girl on Couch

Halloween Weirdo Sketcho

 

Poppymon

Reminiscing a bit about Digimon with some friends, it got me thinking about how neat the Armor Digi-volutions were as an expansion of the "digital evolution" concept of the show. And then I thought it'd be really funny to come up with armor evolutions of some of my own OCs. To be honest, I don't really have that many "creature" designs, as monsters haven't been a big focus of my creativity for a long while.

To keep it simple, I went with Poppy, since she's become one of my go-to doodle characters. Mogie might have been a better, and more classic, example, but his overly simple design kinda made it hard to figure out how to add sufficient details while keeping him looking like Mogie.

Digimon, as opposed to Pokemon, often had what felt like a fairly ramshackle evolutionary tree, with the creatures various stages as often not even resembling their base forms except by a barest stretch of theme. Gatomon: starts as a blob (as most do), then becomes a puppy, then a bipedal cat, then a humanoid angel, then a heavenly dragon. Auguman's forms at least looked like variations of the same orange dinosaur.

Anyway, for the Armor Evolutions, I wanted to maintain a theme of "armor" wherein the resulting evolution is clearly the original creature, modified in various ways by the Digi-Egg attributes. There aren't actually that many examples of the Armors in the show, or on expanded media. There's one chart that shows possible variations that I think were used on expanded media, and from there, I tried to spot cohesive visual themes to base Poppy's forms on. For example, I noticed the "Hope" evolutions were all horned creatures as their common trait, so I give Poppy some Jackalope horns. A few forms, though, I just based them more directly on the armor style of the Digimon from the show, for lack of a better idea.

Anyway, this was a fun little experiment! Almost makes me want to rip off the idea and do a whole art series of stuff like this! Almost. :B

Oh, I also realized it's October, so I guess this can also serve as this years Halloween piece! Spoopymon!