February 25 - Mabuss

Head bangers in leather,
Sparks fly in the dead of the night!
It all comes together ...
When they shoot out the lights,
50,000 wats of power!
And it's pushin' overload!
The beast is ready to devour!

~ Sammy Hagar, Heavy Metal

Mabuss is a new Fiverr artist, who was offering to help character design?  You had me at hello.  She had such an interesting array of designs it was easy to imagine she would create a unique persona.

... and it just doesn't do justice to see it as most everyone who will see this "on your phone".  This is more than character design it's pop-art, it's like a movie poster from the 90's edgy in being layered techniques.  I had to have this printed to hang on my wall.

This is a bad-ass cover to Heavy Metal magazine.  Do the tusks make physical sense?  No - they intentionally do not, defiant as if maybe - it's not his face.  Oh man ... does that mean .. are those someone ... else's hands?  Gruesome!

Seriously - go home tonight, and pull this up on your computer screen to see it better.  It's your one way ticket to midnight, call it - Heavy Metal.

February 24 - SamathaToneyArt

“Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.”

~ Andre Simon

SamanthaToneyArt (IG, Wix) is an up and coming artist who offered to a very appealing commission for people who "don't mind getting a piece of art that may be completely unexpected".   Perfect!

She was able to turn our pig into this brutal butcher, and the only bacon he's chopping is Kevin.

Again I have to point out the awesome expression she was able to capture, the lower lip has a bit of a worminess, the chubby folds of the neck, the blood splatters that look like finger wipes on his dirty apron -- all of this adds to a fantastically unsettling image.

But really would it be any more evil of him to eat humans than it would be for us to eat his children?  In my brain I know it would be good to be a vegetarian, but in my heart and more importantly my stomach, I eat like a ... pig.

February 23 - CookieLovesSHARPIES

"But I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life I look back and see two sets of footprints in the sand.  So, thanks for being there."  The Lord replied after taking another bite of his taco, "Hmm?  Oh my precious child ... no, the pig was carrying you and I both then.  See?  Little pig feet in the sand.  See how they're just a little bit different?" 
~ "Footsteps" (translated from the original Pig Latin)

CookieLovesSHARPIES (@WeDoodleDrawPaint) had such an interestingly abstract rainbow/zebra/butterfly/pony as a sample of their work, it was easy to trust that they would do something amazing.

Look, I'm not saying there is -- but if there was a temple dedicated to the harmony of the universe and all things porcine.  Then this should be the stained glass in the choir loft.

Don't fall into the trap of assuming that these opposing forces are good an evil, there is a yin and yang to the universe where perspective matters - just as the world could not survive in utter darkness, nor could it thrive in total light.  Balance is the key, yadda yadda yadda.  One would assume with horns and dragon wings the purple pig would be the evil counterpoint, but notice the one with the halo is slightly creeping in -- upsetting the balance.  It is what is creating that rend in the fabric of space-time, the venn diagram that ends the universe.

"He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

February 22 - Agifantastik

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”

~ Andy Warhol

Agi is a fantastic (hence the username) illustrator on Fiverr from Indonesia that offered to draw us a monster.  I could tell right away I would like what he came up with by the sample images, they looked like "MadBalls" or something that might be on an expensive skateboard.  Funky weird, just how I like it.

This is really cool, he's got a bit of an evil chuckle going on, rubbing his hooves together as the sinister plan unfolds.  The cloud effect is giving the impression he was summoned, maybe he's a djinn or demonic pig ... reading from the Necronombacon:
        Klaatu Barada, Pigtoe! 

This does belong on a skateboard gol-darned it!  *I* just don't belong on one anymore...

February 21 - Blazeloid

“Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger.”

~ Ashley Ormon

Blazeloid is a Fiverr artist from India that is also a graphic designer for an advertisement agency.  He offered to design cartoons or characters, and his portfolio is full of amazing work, you can tell he is passionate about what he does.

He made two amazing cartoons - both steeped in cartoonish charm, the joyful galloping pig to the right and the mischevious escapee below.   Which is extra hilarious because the balloon is getting it, like - a small jump in the air? 😂

February 20 - onedaygm

“The difference between the quest for the Holy Grail and someone saying ‘bring me a cup’ is the flavor text and the number of stops involved.”

~ Bryan Fields, Life With a Fire-Breathing Girlfriend

Being a GM is the ultimate evolutionary form of creative storytelling in my book, you are the architect, it's part careful planning and part brilliant improvisation. Let me give a shoutout to all you GM's out there, unsung heroes working you butts off between sessions making the world more epic for sometimes only a handful of others. (Can I get a huzzah?)

By username alone - onedaygm this is an artist I would want to check out.  A professional graphic designer and full time freelance artist, he has a great sense of character design.  Much of the art he shows could easily be included in a monster manual/fiend folio as well as some campaign map designs, this is a one-stop-shop for all of your RPG needs!

I love this interpretation and the expression is fantastic - slightly insane, perhaps mischievous look in the eyes, and there is a precision in the detail on those spikes that I feel needs pointing out.  It doesn't feel hairy, they look dangerously sharp.  It wants you to tell it's story ...

February 19 - Zombiesandwich

"Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art."

~ Clive Barker

Step into the brain on Zombiesandwich and you might not escape with your sanity intact.  With the freedom to do whatever he wanted and a gig that says "I will do scary stuff", this is 100% undistilled brain juice from a master of horror.

Zombiesandwich is a concept artist from the UK, very new to Fiverr that is currently making concept art for a video game, but also offering services to bring your night terrors to life. When he came up with the idea for this wonderfully disgusting centipede (centipig?) mutation idea - yes please!

Look at those crazy eyes, this is fantastic -- it's a Cronenberg nightmare.  BURN IT WITH FIRE!