A cthulhu like existance with a blue lamp, showing off the colours of dead spirits. Around his shoulders and arms, an eel like creature, the avatar of leviathan can be found.

Dragonic head, the small creation of this took a few iterations. The idea here was to attempt something I've done on an HD skin a while ago. In the Dragon Tamer I used a setup where I had a dragon head on the side of the head, which I could then have the body go around a singular arm. For the head of this skin, not enough space was available to actually do this same maneuver, so I used tech I used on my chimera skin, where I made mineature heads on the shoulders, a technique I originally saw used by Carcharodontosaurus on his incredible hydra skin! GingerPie was crucial in helping the head reach its final shape!




The body of the leviathan spawn I decided would cross both arms, this solves a major issue of space and allows for a creature of significant size to be present on the skin. The advantage of this is that you don't need to spin the body around a single limb several times over for the size of it to be sufficiently substantial. To make sure the body of the creature was interesting, I added spikes onto the body. The tech used to make this I have not seen before and I am very very happy it succeeded because I've always wanted a dragon tamer style skin in regular resolution.




On skin lightsource; I decided it would be appropriate to add a weak light emitting body onto the skin. By weak I mean that this lightsource isn't dominating at all, and only serves as a minor effect on the area of its circumference. These include the crab claw on the arm, the tentacles from the head, the belt, the boots and the ragged clothing next to it. This minor effect allows for a cool colour-spiel throughout the skin.



Skull carved into the clothing on the back was a sudden and very cool way to do the legs. The skull is topical and is meant to blend into the ragged clothes and boots pretty seemlessly. I do think I succeeded in doing that and in the 2d preview I do think the skull is pretty clear. The effect is particularly aided by gloomy colours and vivid brows. The design was made with help from Shadow and Carcharodontosaurus!




The last bit of difficult tech was this small skull. Using the hat layers away from the middle of the limb allows you to make small subdivisions of pixels on the base layer. This I used to make the eyes actually be surrounded by bone material, which gives a cool effect of a complete skull. Similarly, pixels on the hat layer were used to give shape the eye sockets.


Fun easteregg:



I added a dagger below the right arm!

My first contest win was actually in a contest that was practically the same as this one, just under a different name:




The Leviathan Summoner [​Contest 1st Place!] by DragonsDungeon

The story I wrote ties into the story from this skin, with the same characters. The idea is that the character from this skin is being corrupted and slowly turned into this skin. Whereafter he finally summons the leviathan, which circles his body. Since the character died, his undead body is now the captain of the undead boat!