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[she put a lot of effort into that present]

The long awaited crossover of moth and bird! :D

[Skeleton Army - Month 1]

Now that we're at Week 4, most of the main combat and defense roles have been met. You've got your main champions, your ranged support and the general infantry mixed with good range.

The common Necromancer would find most of their defense needs met at this point, but the summoner here is clearly no common Necromancer!

Now that a standing force can dissuade the vast majority of low level paladins, there is time to consider what long term success might look like. The gap between being a frightening rogue necromancer in the valley and a well respected lord of the dead is a large one, but I've got my hopes that this summoner has a good vision.

We might see a resurgence of subjects like Art, Diplomacy, Tourism and Baking amongst these skeletons if the town can get built up enough. :P

Best of luck!

WURMxFUD responds:

Thanks for the support! You right we haven't even begun to explore what a skeleton mercantile system looks like...

[Skeleton Army - Week 3]

As much I can enjoy the lighting of the skeleton firing the skeleton mind beams, the goofy coffin skeleton clinches this one for me because I just imagine him poppin' out like a turtle once a character gets too close to him. Hopping and swaying from leg to leg as he slowly clomps on over to them to attack. :P

WURMxFUD responds:

thanks I gotta agree, I had a lot of fun with that one! if I were going to animate these he'd be first on the list for sure, so much you can do with it

[TheMewx Comic #61 'Lemon!']

Further proof that just about anything can kill DMA: your strongest character. :P

Mewx responds:

peak glass cannon

[door (comms)]

Hopefully it's like the intro to the Tales To The Crypt Keeper cartoon and they all just sit down to watch TV afterwards. :P

Chop full of monsters and detail, this is a super detailed piece. Even The Scream up there in the corner is caught off guard with how much is showing up all at once. haha

Great work!

[Skeleton Army Recruitment - Week 2]

I know that each figure was drawn seperately, but I just picture that Heavily Armed Skeleton is just about to be absolutely ambushed by the Crossbow Skelly, who is just about ready to take the shot. haha

WURMxFUD responds:

Great at swinging multiple sharp objects around at once, terrible situational awareness (not a great combo)

[Froge Farmin']

It starts with a single lily pad, then he'll be growing several lily pads, and so on and so forth until he's got himself a whole swamp operation. :)

[Super Powered Dude]

Seems more like a freelance good guy with severe anger issues. :P
"YOU DIDN'T THANK THE BUS DRIVER AFTER LEAVING THE BUS!?" (Energy explosion)

Has high prices so he can live somewhere tropical and nice where he won't rage at people.
Strikes me as a 'Victor' for some reason, but that's just me. lol

Nice details on the hard shadows! With the chaos behind him, having some of the details against the pale skin tones with crosshatching makes this fellow stand out quite well from the background. A few stray lines with the lineart around the triceps and biceps, but I imagine that's deliberate just to show more energy and chaos to match with the background more, so it's likely intentional.

Otherwise! Solid posing and a very good understanding of anatomy/ muscle groups.
Keep it up! :D

[Skeleton Army Recruitment - Week 1]

The skeleton warriors make sense as a first choice for any Necromancer, what with the Paladins that might try to stop you. Then you see the Skeleton Summoners who help along with the recruitment efforts. After a while you get to Skeleton Guards, the Skeleton Workers, Skelton Blacksmiths, and eventually you get into surplus territory and start getting the Skeleton Librarians, Skeleton Gardeners and Skeleton Diplomats. That might take until Week 7+ though :P

Floaty Mage McSkellybones is probably my favorite, because he looks like he's having the time of his life shooting those flames out of his hands at the ground. Every other skelly also has a neat pose, and despite their common origins, each seems to have it's own personality and flair to them to keep them unique.

Make sure you keep posting your results if you keep going with this! Batches of 7-8 like this one would work great! :)

WURMxFUD responds:

Just wait until week 8 hits and you get introduced to the skeleton distillers and skeleton sommeliers.

Thrilled that you enjoy them so much, I'll definitely be posting them weekly as I go!

[gamer clouds]

So while this is a nice piece, I was curious to what made the clouds especially 'Game Clouds'.

Racking my brain, my best guess is that the clouds are inspired by Rayman 1, because there's some levels with some really nice purple clouds.

I may be wrong though. :P