Mother Worm

Hey guys! I hope you all had a safe Halloween!

WARNING-

Guys I don't think what I have posted here is gross or actually NSFW (not safe for work/potentially sexual) but it kind of looks like it is NSFW. Kind of. What I have drawn looks quite similar to a particular body part. It is not a drawing of that body part, but at first glance it looks a lot like it.

I have also attached a third picture of a type of maggot on a clean black background- there is no gore or decomposing matter, but don't look if you don't like seeing worms/maggots. I am warning you now just to be safe.

edit- im just now realizing that when posted the images are all put side by side instead of in order😐 ahhhhhhh oh well sorry guys.

Here's what I've been working on the past couple of days and I think I'm finally ready to move on- the dialog profile picture for the player's bedridden mother when she turns into a worm.

Yah that's a bit to digest so let me break this down so we are all on the same page. The player is a little girl in a village full of dead people. She is the only one alive and at the beginning of the game she is going around playing games with the various dead villagers imagining that they were all still alive.

One of the villagers/characters who you can interact with is the player's mother, who is found "sick" in bed. The image above (2nd image) shows on the top left how the mother looks when walking around in the overworld (she will be in a house, not on the grass like the picture shows), either in the red bed sheets or the blue sheets (It seemed like when I discussed this in the video, the majority favored the red sheets). Then the image on the top right is what you see when you speak to the mother and enter into the dialog state.

When I discussed this in the video, I mentioned that her overworld sprite (the colorful and smaller red or blue one) makes here look like a worm, and a lot of people seemed to like that as an idea. I ran with it and created an overworld sprite of her as a worm/maggot in her red bed (bottom left). What I did recently is draw up her dialog profile pictures as a worm (3 bottom right).

I had a vision for this image, and that was a worm/maggot like creature with a snout and human like mouth/lips at its end. In case you are curious, I was modeling her worm body off of a particular type of maggot called a Black Solider Fly larvae (I've added a picture of one as reference).

As you can see, there are 3 versions of the same worm dialog profile (bottom right). The reason for this is because I was really hoping to use the mother worm dialog profile image as a thumbnail image for the next YouTube video. Unfortunately, when I drew the first iteration (the image with the 1 under it, the 3 are marked in order of when created), it was blatantly obvious that it looked very similar to a particular body part at first glance. I tried redrawing it with a more pronounced snout (2 and 3) to see if that would make it more acceptable, but I still don't think it will fly.

To be honest, I am okay with it looking like this. It might even fit into the game's narrative really well. But it's not very good for a YouTube thumbnail where it would most likely get flagged. I will be working on putting together a more useable image to use as a thumbnail.

Sorry if all these recent posts have too much to read, I am still trying to figure out this Patreon thing. If you have any suggestions I am all ears!

I love you guys and I hope you are all doing well!