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When looking at the SSPBL season 6 week 1 palette I noted the gloomy dark green tones as being an option to make a super interesting skin. The concept or underlying thematic would be the contrast between life and death, a strong meaningful contrast that can take both simple forms (such as a lich or a necromancer) or more poetic forms. I'd like to imagine I went for the latter.

Lebenstrieb, or in English the freudian concept of the urge to live, I decided to apply to the inorganic remains of animals (represented by the skull on the legs and the shoulder) and depicts their will to re-emerge as new life, in this case plants with a humanoid face to hammer the message home. The big flower on the head is the centrepiece life-wise and I think steals the spotlight as the key to the skin.

Incidentally, this was meant to be a skin about the opposite of Lebenstrieb, Todestrieb, inspired by a song of the same name, but the message was more presentable in the current format, so I ended up opting for that on the suggestion of PureNerd!




For the 13th colour, I decided that to get the transitional feeling I so desperately wanted I needed to add another purple, something you can see on my palette just below!

To all the week 1 participants I wish you good luck, this was a fun skin to do for it being my first in 3 months, lovely palette that has been cooked up for all to enjoy, cheers!