Oooo, Wechsel, I'm a fan! I've read (viewed?) a picture book (titled
The Extraordinary Mr. Qwerty) that vaguely followed this 'weirding', cross-hatch aesthetic and I was quite impressed, but I haven't seen any pieces in a similar style beyond that. There's so much creative potential that I've clearly missed out on!
I particularly like how your pieces breathe fresh life into some of the less popular monsters. The Aromatisse looks like a mix-mash of a tawny frogmouth owl and my sassy little sister, with hilarious results! Fittingly, the chorus of Spritzee, Aromatisse and Nosepass appear to extract the same exhausted reaction from Probopass (nice attention to detail!) as my sister manages to extract from me when she's trying to organise my life. I also like the creative liberty you've taken with the some of the other monsters to give them their own unique personality -- and isn't Carnivine just a
mood? My favourites would have to be the Probopass and Lysandre due to their expressiveness and careful placement / balance, although your self-portrait comes in as a close third just because it's very sweet and tells us a thousand words about you.
Interestingly, you've stuck to a striking monochromatic colour palette for the majority of pieces. Was the choice of red as a primary colour a carefully considered decision, or a more a random idea that just worked? I could see this developing into multiple different 'series' each with an emphasis on different colours -- one for yellows, one for blues and one for greens, as an example.
I also wanted to ask; how long have you been drawing for? Has anything inspired your work? There's this classic crosshatch aesthetic that you've managed to blend in with some vector-style elements, and you've clearly paid careful attention to the composition (especially the shape of the background), the colour choices and the other tiny details. Your style seems rather distinct, like you've developed your own craft over plenty of practice, and I'm interested to hear about your journey!
Just a recommendation before I sign off, you might like to put each individual piece into their own spoiler so people don't have to scroll down to so much. Just like this:
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[spoiler=Name Here!]image goes here[/spoiler]