Attack of the Fish
Two teenage best friends stumble upon an egg that has crash landed onto their world. Wanting to keep it, they find themselves in trouble as it begins to hatch and evolve before them.
The fish design was a love letter to two of my favorite things: Xenomorph and salmon. I always adored the idea of having this huge monster with a main mouth and tiny internal mouth, almost adding an additional scare factor of "this is just its outer skin there's something worse inside". I wanted its initial stages to be small and cute, and slowly morph into something that's no longer that. Having the sketchy painterly style pull further alongside dulling out the colors for the final version so it'll play into the environment style more and blending into it. The way it evolves is similar to an amphibian mixed with a fish, it growing directly from the egg instead of hatching- the second phase taking the original egg sack and harboring it below like a pouch.