I might consider this complete! I forgot the nurglings, but maybe that’s what the other flowers are! Budding nurglings!
This Great Unclean One is one based on the parasitic Rafflesia flower. It’s name is Festus the Fragrant. My impromptu lore is that Nurgle created the flowers as an attempt to please Isha in his sort of way, as much as it was an attempt to spread rot to the Galaxy.
The so-called “Pestula Petals’” intoxicantingly putrid stench is known to induce a powerful stupor and to bring a sort of awe and euphoria to the Plaguebearers and Nurglings that flock about Festus.
The microscopic seeds of the flowers root into the bodies of trees, animals, and even the armor of tanks, its roots splitting bones, bark, and steel as it spreads, before finally bursting out as more odorously fragrant flowers. The flowers consume and integrate the genes of its hosts, allowing the flowers to adapt rapidly to even Astartes or Tyranid physiology.
Creatures that have been infested by the Pestula Petals often have their craniums ruptured by the growing flowers, turning their bodies and surroundings into smaller, but no less beautiful, versions of Nurgles’ blessed gardens.
Original colored Here
https://beehaw.org/post/1099615
Linework here!
https://beehaw.org/post/1034644
Sketch here!
He looks positively putrid! I would like a Festus to protect my garden from rodents.
Well, the flowers do eat those, so maybe you want rodents. They’ll also eat the dandelions and the neighborhood dogs. Maybe also your car. You need a new one anyway.
An omniverous plant that also eats garbage?? Sign me up! 😂
Festus looks absolutely foul and mighty. An absolute sight to behold that I wouldn’t want to be up against 😨
I’ve been following the last few posts and I loved seeing Festus develop over the week. That linework was already technically outstanding but I think you most definitely did Festus justice with the coloring and shading. Great job! 👏
Thanks! I loved doing this one!
