Monster of the Week Concept Art: Fungal Stalker and Batkin Fighter

For Monster of the Week, the prompt was cave creatures! For my first entry I decided to create a monster mixing elements of human anatomy with visual inspiration from the football fish, and twisting elements until I made something monstrous and gross looking. The main aspects I focused on were using the football fish's antennae as a fungal spore growth, and covering the monster in bulges and pus sacks to make it feel overgrown and mutated.

Gross things are fun, but they're only fun if they have something to fight against. I wanted to design and anthropomorphic cave dwelling species, so I chose a bat. With those big, unwieldy wings I wanted to think of how they'd fight, so I decided on a fighting style inspired by Muay Thai, using knee and leg strikes, and using their wings to brush off attacks and misdirect their foes. Loose fitting clothes and armored legs seemed appropriate, and to finish it off I posed him in a low defensive stance.