So you've got the background on the theme, now here's the actual work. My art project for Halloween this year, Monster Girl Hime and Monster Girl Kali.
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| Original Piece - Monster Girl Hime |
Hime (Euphemia) was the first one I completed. I actually
started hers during the Etotama run back in spring only because I was already fascinated by
the idea of her in kyuubi style. I have another one I’m working on with a
different pose that is a little clearer in depicting her outfit. Her clothing
here, or what little of it you can see, is based on the outfit she wears in the
promotional pictures of the alternate reality story of her being a member of a
rock group with Cornelia, Suzaku, Anya, Gino, and Orange-kun (I seriously keep
forgetting his actual name and don’t feel like looking it up again). This one
was relatively simple if only for the fact that there are plenty of fox-girl
examples throughout the anime and manga encyclopedia and the inclusion of those
features are fairly simplistic in being no more than the tails and the ears.
Similar to Anzu, I've done enough works featuring Euphemia at this point that I can usually draw her for the most part from memory. I'm not quite at the proficiency level with her as I am with Anzu, or Drusilla for that matter, but I am getting close. The pose isn't directly based on a particular image, though it is sort of in my memory even though I've no confidence in her actually having posed like this in any artwork by anyone else, or in any scene in the anime. I borrowed the hair style mostly from the same piece I borrowed the outfit. This is an "unfinished" work, as evidence from the visible blend line just above her ankles (the paper drawing covers part of a second page).
The Kali (Drusilla) picture was the third one I did, and so
far the last one I’ve done in this series. It's also one of my largest pieces, set across four pages. I chose Kali simply because I felt
more like working that project than the others. I wasn’t entirely sure how I
would draw out more detail to make the wolf work contrasted to the kyuubi in
the very same image, cat and rabbit has been done to death so much I wanted to
delay that to probably near the end, already had a dragon-girl in the works for
a Looking Glass story, and general indecision on design for the remaining
butterfly, phoenix, and nue. This one was more difficult because of the greater
extent of non-human parts.
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| Original Piece - Monster Girl Kali |
Fusing a human body to
an arachnid is more difficult than I first expected. I ended up not relying on Monster
Musume for that detail. The character design for Rachnera is a bit unusual in
terms of how much of the human body they use. They seek to further
sexualize her appearance by keeping her human down to her ankles so she’s
basically kneeling with her legs spread open on top where a spider’s head should be. I didn’t really think that was necessary for my own spider-woman, so I did Kali’s
human form to her hip like most monster-girls. As usual I fidgeted with her hairstyle just a bit. Where I did
use the added detail of the Rachnera design was adding the extra sets of eyes
on the forehead.
The outfit choice for her is a reworked piece. I didn’t want
to use the regular outfits that I normally rework for Drusilla (Arachne’s dress
from Soul Eater, or the combo between it and one of Euphemia’s from Code
Geass). With those two’s outfits expended, I started considering the other
personas for Kali to see if there was a costume from one of them I could use here. I didn’t find one that exactly fit my idea of the right
outfit, so I merged a couple for Kongou. Now, Kongou isn’t one of Kali's personas, but by strange happenstance of the Cromwell Universe story they do
cross paths – all three of them. So, the dress she is wearing is a mix of one
outfit worn by Kongou of Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio, and one outfit worn by Kongou
of Kantai Collection.
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| Kongou - Arpeggio of Blue Steel, found on yande.re |
There you go. My Halloween project for 2015. There was an Athena (Hancock) in serpent form, but I couldn't get the details on the scales done in time. I guess I'll save it for sometime in the future. Until next time, Happy Halloween!!
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