Hi-res Mortasheen, concept notes, files: Karacha (Patreon)

I've still been hard at work updating a lot of Mortasheen artwork, here's a closer look at the cockroach-based Arthropoid.

Karacha went through a few designs in the setting's early years, mostly more "serious" and "cool" looking before I decided to go cartoonier, giving them an Ed Roth "Rat Fink" style, envisioning them as mischievous gremlin-like troublemakers.

They also had actual wings, since I felt like they were crucial to the aesthetic of a cockroach, but most Arthropoids are wingless. With the newest design, I compensating by giving it a translucent, filmy, segmented tunic down its back.

I feel I may have made a lot of this design too dark and too convoluted, unfortunately. It's good enough, but I think it could have been clearer.