Hannah McGill

I have been making little games with my spouse! Here is our 'Christmas Card' game that we made for our family last year. As a master study of Bust-A-Move/Puzzle Bobble, this will not be avant garde game design, but we hope you enjoy it!

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Pupate, damn it! Pupaaaaate!

[img id] Digital art of a caterpillar at the very end of pupation, with its body scrunched up at the top into wrinkles. Its proto-wings are clearly visible pressing against the shell of the green cocoon, which has expanded in girth since the last installment on this art series. The scrunchy caterpillar body has thick white, dark gray, and peach stripes. The art style has thin outlines and cel shading. Watermark at the bottom: http://hmcgill.art. [/id]

I dunno I think it's neat that I can kinda see wings in the cocoon?

[img id] Digital art of a caterpillar mostly pupated, with its body scrunched up at the top into wrinkles and proto-wings clearly visible pressing against the shell of the green cocoon. The scrunchy caterpillar body has thick white, dark gray, and peach stripes. The art style has thin outlines and cel shading. Watermark at the bottom: http://hmcgill.art. [/id]

Just...scrunching up the old body like a dirty sock, I guess

(why are caterpillars like this??)

[img id] Digital art of a monarch butterfly caterpillar in the middle of pupating. The style is cel-shaded with delicate thin lineart. The caterpillar's striped body is split open like it has a seam starting with where the head used to be, with the hard green shell of the cocoon poking out. The caterpillar's stripes alternate chaotically between peach, white, and black, with some transparency showing the shell peeking out of the thinnest parts of the skin. The very top of the caterpillar, its very hind legs are wrinkling up with discarded loose skin. A watermark below the artwork reads 'http://hmcgill.art'. [/id]

Small Headache

[img id] Digital art of a caterpillar suspended upside down, beginning to pupate. The style is cel-shaded with delicate, thin lineart and naturalistic (but not entirely accurate) proportions and details. The caterpillar's body appears stuffed full like a sausage, to the point that the chrysalis inside seems to have popped the body's seam along the head. The caterpillar's antennae dangle limp from the sides of is head, its feet appear to be deflating, and its butt is scrunched up like a dirty sock. It's like the body is going to slip off the shell. You're welcome! Watermark at the bottom: http://hmcgill.art. [/id]

Aww, thank you so much! You are just as delightful.

Hangin' out

[img id] Digital art of a caterpillar attaching itself to the stem of a milkweed plant. The style of the illustration features crisp uniform outlines, some colored and some black, as well as stylized cel shading. The point of view is from underneath the milkweed plant, up at the caterpillar under the nearest leaf. The caterpillar is curling around itself, dangling from a bit of 'glue' it used to hang itself upside down. The caterpillar is banded with stark peach, black, and white stripes. The milkweed plant towers into the sky. [/id]

Big chonker out of leafs to eat, needs something more from life

[img id] Digital art of a big, fat monarch butterfly caterpillar. The style is cel-shaded with delicate, precise lineart. It's covered in a cacophony of black, peach, and white stripes. It has big black feelers on its head and fake feelers on its butt. The remains of leaves that it has demolished in its everpresent hunger are scattered around where it steps. [/id]

The eating continues. No leaf is safe!

[img id] Digital art of a well-fed monarch butterfly caterpillar helping itself to more milkweed leaves. The art is done in a style with thin black outlines and cel shading, but is otherwise rendered true to nature. There are three milkweed leaves in the picture and they have been eaten through the middle by the hungry caterpillar, leaving the steps and tips intact. The caterpillar, who is peach with black stripes, peels back the final leaf to nibble its edge. [/id]

Hey, look! It's environmental storytelling, just like in my open world video games!

[img id] Digital art of a spray of milkweed leaves, done in a cartoony cel-shaded style with thin, uniform lineart. The plant has six visible leaves and little bits of leaf scattered about it. Running through the leaves is a trail made by a little caterpillar chomping its way through the plant. The caterpillar at the end of this trail is perched on the biggest, most prominent leaf, and is preparing to crawl onto the other side of the leaf, away from the viewer. The caterpillar's butt faces the viewer. It is peach with dark gray rings around its body. [/id]

Cronch cronch cronch....

[img id] Digital art of a small monarch butterfly caterpillar creeping up a milkweed leaf and eating it as it goes. The style of the art is crisp thin outlines with cel shading. The caterpillar is peach with black rings around its body, a black face with shiny eyes, and little bitty nubs for antennae. The milkweed leaf is rendered with seafoam/aqua tones. The watermark on the image reads: 'http://hmcgill.art'. [/id]

Here is Margo, after I was thinking about Lying Cat from Saga

(As far as detective work goes, she is about as hardboiled as an egg)

...

(I do still work on Warlock'd, but it's honestly been a lot of pointless suffering and I hope that suffering gets resolved soon...)

[img id] Digital art of a barn swallow character named Margo perched in the dirt. The style is thin, delicate black lineart with cel shading that follows a clear light source. Being a barn swallow, Margo is deep blue with semi-iridescent feathers, and orange patches on top of her head, around her throat, and along one wing wrist. Her feet are blue and her cream belly is largely hidden by the wings and feathers folded along her back. Margo has a cartoony, overly grumpy expression. Her black beak is set in a deep frown. The inner yellow skin of her mouth is slightly revealed as she croaks the word "CRIMES" ominously. It's implied that you're supposed to take Margo very seriously, but who would? [/id]

My latest caterpillar stage illustration...if you can find the little critter anyway (I have so much leaf I need to eat, it's absurd 🤢)

[img id] Digital art of an arrangement of milkweed leaves, rendered in soft teal colors. It's a stack of leaves on a stem with one big leaf thrust into the foreground via foreshortening. All the veins can be seen in this one big oval leaf with a pointy end. Eating its tiny way through this leaf is a tiny caterpillar, near the tip. It has a lot of leaf to get through if it wants to become a proper butterfly. [/id]

This one makes me happy because it's the last time I have to draw that annoyingly detailed eggshell :)

[img id] Digital art of a teeny tiny baby monarch butterfly caterpillar chowing down on its own eggshell. The caterpillar stands on microscopic milkweed fibers and lifts the eggshell overhead, chomping away. The caterpillar is light peach in color, with a black head, black legs, and black spikes running down its body in rows. Its butt is facing the viewer. The eggshell and the milkweed leaf are seafoam green. A watermark in the corner reads: http://hmcgill.art [/id]