Hi-res Mortasheen & Concept Notes: Lust Devilbird (Patreon)

All seven of the original Devilbirds have now been updated, and I'll be putting them all up on here eventually!

The original design for Lust combined a baby, a heart, and a hummingbird, but not all that well in my opinion. My standards for creature design evolved so much and far beyond a point where "creepy human baby" was all that effective to me anymore.

The new Lust more fully integrates the heart motif, so that the whole entire creature is formed from a mutated branching aorta,  with the heart itself as the head. I tried to still keep the appearance of a flying baby, so that it would also represent a "cherub" or "cupid," the pose even lifted from a specific renaissance era painting of an angelic baby I used for reference.

The white shine on the head was unplanned, accidentally happening through a combination of shading and luminosity layers, but it wound up looking just like the staining and bleaching of real preserved heart specimens I've seen in person, so I kept it.

You can download the PSD here too, if you feel like navigating my dozens and dozens of layers, some redundant in case I ever wanted to go back and re-edit something.