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Sweet Tooth Pg. 5-6
🕑 Added 2021-05-30 00:40:35 +0000 UTCThe final pages of "Sweet Tooth"!
This was a fun comic to both write and draw (I re-wrote the final lines about three times actually). I haven't done anything horror-themed in a long time, much less on this scale, and I certainly haven't done any kind of digital painting like this for a long, long time. I'm more used to doing more cel-shaded cartoony stuff, but it's good to know I can make stuff like this as well. Overall, I'm proud of this.
The only thing that still bothers me is that I've been drawing and painting this horrible nightmare predator for so long yet I still don't have a name for them. Any suggestions?
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Omny
Well, the Wendigo is actually a lot different from this monster. In Algonquin belief, the wendigo is initially an invisible spirit that possesses those who commit the ultimate taboo of cannibalism, causing them to have a ceaseless hunger for human flesh that can never be satisfied. How they look depends on who you ask but usually the Wendigo appears as a pale, skeletal human with a toothy, lipless mouth. If you're thinking of the more deer-skull-headed wendigo, that was actually created recently for the 2001 movie "Wendigo".
Cedric Moon
Your beast reminded me of a monster from a nord american mythology but I couldn't put my finger on it! Finally, it came back! To the Wendigo of the Native American peoples! It's a man-eating creature very much feared among them. His name means "cursed cannibal"! His name has several writings according to the tribes: *The spelling and pronunciation of the word "windigo" differs. Thus, wendigo, wheetigo, windikouk, wi'ntsigo, wi'tigo and wittikka are all different versions of the same term. Other names, such as atchen, chenoo and kewok, are also commonly used to refer to windigo.* The wendigo does not operate in dreams but IRL but his methods are close to those of your monster!
IamUnknown
Honestly, I think the idea of the horror not having a name makes it even scarier, an 'unknown unknown' if you will where each community stalked by it has their own name for it. "She who hungers" "The eater of dreams" "Devourer of souls" That kind of thing.
SFaccountant
I think having no name really works for it. Especially as it eats the entire lifetime of anyone slow enough to get a good look D:
