"Thing 3"

It had been a good while since I had drawn a Thing, one of my favorite things to design. There's a lot of freedom in just hurling together a bunch of body parts and even stretching and tearing them apart.

For this little buddy, he actually began on my computer's desktop, sort of. I was listening to Winamp when a song (don't remember what) cycled in and I thought, "This would be good transformation music." So, I imagined myself and wondered, "If there was a contest to tear your body asunder and contort your form in such a way as to win a trophy for horrificness, what would I try to do to my human form?" This is the result. I actually stole the disfigured, one-eyed monster hand from my ongoing book's list of unfinished character concepts. It wass my favorite part of the design until I drew it, as I ran out of room and decided to just forgo my plans on do something a little different, giving him more twisted tendons for "claws" rather than actual bone. You can make out in the thumbnail the original shape I'd planned.

The head I sort of stole from a boss from Final Fantasy VII named Helletic Hojo. It seems like there was a translation error in that boss's name, but whatever... As I played through the game for the 20th or so time, I noted the stretched head and huge mouth, and decided I'd use it for something one day. My version is substantially larger and more gleeful, however. Also, it's coughing up entrails, which I've yet to figure out how to draw. I've actually had to dig through and move entrailsby hand before, so I'm well-affiliated with them, but I don't have any sitting around to model from.

To summarize the creature, it has: 1) sprouted a tree of spider legs from its spine, 2) stretched its mouth apart, coughing up guts and grew little flailing legs from its neck, 3) had one arm turned into a large "brain sack" with a single, staring eye and had the other somewhat skinless arm contorted and broken, 4) had its chest ripped open, exposing larger, mutated ribs and a new hissing, fleshy head with two tongues and a long and snakey neck, 5) and finally, ripped its lower, skinless legs into a contorted grasping hand and a sort of coiled up scythe.

Why do I draw these things? Is something wrong with me? Am I a bad person for drawing such things? I dunno.

Oh, and the hissing, fleshy head bursting from the rib cage used to be a skinless baby with a torn jawline. I decided to erase that one.