Lucids / Monsters: Demonox

So far, when it comes to Lucids, I have mainly talked about the Lucids themselves: people from the material world who have synchronized with the Dream Dimension, a reality born of fantasy.  These people can use their awareness of the Dream Dimension to create their own personal mental realm and (extremely likely case) gain superpowers.  In addition to creating Dream Worlds, people can also subconsciously create other beings to live in those worlds.  These creatures start off as Thoughts, imaginary creatures.  However, when a Thought is either neglected for too long or exposed to a lot of negative emotion, they can easily transform into the many monsters that exist in the Dream Dimension: Nightmares.

I ought to draw more concept art of potential Nightmares, so this week, I drew a breed known as "Demonox".

Grisly Wing, Banwi

I attend a weekly Internet stream where I talk to people into certain cartoons and games while the streamer plays various videos and video games.  The main event of this stream in recent months has been a playthrough of one of the Fire Emblem games that I have not played yet.  Often times, silly discussions occur either between the viewers in the chat or between the streamer and her audience, including arguments over things that may or may not turn the tide of the chapter.  During one stream, the host tried to defend her pairing of two particular characters who were both "Wyvern Lords", units that ride wyverns (mythological creatures that basically resemble smaller winged dragons) into battle, which soon led to an argument over how to properly pronounce the word "wyvern".  It was a nice little diversion from a chapter that was taking way too long to finish.

Since that night, I have been meaning to draw a wyvern, and I finally received the chance last week.

Fairy Mello

I am back with a new monster this week.  However, rather than making some large monster whose primary offense would be physically-based, Mello here goes in the opposite direction.  After all, if all the monsters one made were created the same way, one might start to stiffen in terms of design, would he not?

Karatane, the Martial Bird

It seems like even when I am not actually drawing Pokemon, they inspire a lot of my work anyway.  It was probably a little more subtle with Kangolf and Lansaur the last two weeks, but this week I have a concept for something that was originally meant to be a fan Pokemon.  Since I don't have direct ties to Game Freak, I can find some other use for this monster, such as making it a Nightmare for Lucids to fight.  Therefore, meet Karatane.

It's Lansaur!

I mentioned a few times in my post last week that the monster I had drawn, Kangolf, had a rival who was a dinosaur, as a nod to the Digimon cartoons.  Allow me to introduce you to that rival: Lansaur.

Kangolf Attacks!

Once again, I'm trying to draw some monsters.  This week, I have a draft of a rather bouncy beast I call the "Kangolf".

Blue & Gold Dragon

I feel like I have an affinity toward dragons.  I was born in the Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese calendar.  You do not see actual dragons in real life (I cannot count the Komodo "dragon" as one), so you cannot be sure what they could actually be like.  Perhaps they were powerful beasts that terrorized the masses.  Maybe they were actually wise beings that aided the weak or imparted their knowledge to "lesser beings".  For all we know, they might have spawned from carp when they leaped up a waterfall.  The bad news is that dragons do not exist in reality.  The good news is because of that, we can probably create whatever mythology around them that we want.

In this case, I created a young dragon in armor.