Background and Prop Designer for Animation / Creature Designer

@spiralshells / spiralshells.tumblr.com

NB♀︎ - they/she - Please see pinned post for general content warnings

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Hello, visitors old and new. I am Spiral Shells, a nonbinary artist from California, USA.

My primary drives for making art are self-understanding, truth seeking, catharsis, healing and spiritual growth. So while you may find Pokemon fanart and uglycute creatures here, you will also encounter art dealing with heavier themes, such as BODY HORROR, MEDICAL TRAUMA, DEPRESSION, SUICIDAL IDEATION, RELIGIOUS TRAUMA, and other generally unpleasant or disturbing things. If an encounter with any of these might ruin your day, please proceed with caution.

I block blank blogs, hate speech blogs and AI "art" blogs.

Likes, asks, reblogs, replies, tags and messages are welcome.

#pinned post #about the artist #self portrait #body horror #medical trauma #needle #digital art #spiralshells art

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HYDRAPHONE 2025 BRANCH 3

Team 3 artists:

1: @blossompigeon 2: @spiralshells 3: @satourni 4: Ripley 5: @odetoscavengers 6: @vhsdruid 7: @lymphwyrm 8: @kombuchaclock 9: Zmannzilla 10: @threeleggedart 11: @bruneburg 12: Jamgram

Back to the beginning

BRANCH 1 | BRANCH 2 | BRANCH 3 | BRANCH 4 | BRANCH 5 | BRANCH 6 | BRANCH 7

Please look at my beautiful team and how well they all did

#team marimonstrosity!!!#look at my fabulous teammates and their amazing arts #hydraphone 2025 #art telephone

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My piece for HYDRAPHONE 2025, an incredible 85-artist telephone game organized by local weevil wizard @bowelfly! I'm so psyched to have been able to participate with so many stupefyingly talented people!

The full gallery of art is available to view here!

#morning reblog #hydraphone 2025 #creature design #bugs #anthro #digital art #spiralshells art

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OKAY WELL i was going to wait to post the latest art telephone game on here until everything was finalized but one of the last artists got delayed by life stuff but everyone's already posting their individual piece online so it's silly to keep this secret now. i'll hold off on posting all the art natively on tumblr until i get the last piece in but in the meantime you can check out the hydraphone 2025 tag on here to see a bunch of it

this was the most ambitious game of art telephone i've run to date and had so many artists that i split them into 7 teams but with each working off of the same starting image. seeing how the characters and world evolved and changed across the different teams was so insanely cool and i'm so proud of all the kickass artists who contributed to this.

CHECK IT OUT:

HYDRAPHONE 2025

#art telephone #hydraphone 2025 #go look!!!

My piece for HYDRAPHONE 2025, an incredible 85-artist telephone game organized by local weevil wizard @bowelfly! I'm so psyched to have been able to participate with so many stupefyingly talented people!

The full gallery of art is available to view here!

#hydraphone 2025 #creature design #bugs #anthro #digital art #spiralshells art

Baby buggos, part II.

#creature design #pokemon #fakemon #yanma #dwebble #ledyba #digital art #spiralshells art

Dubious sketches from the current book

#sketches #sketchbook #sketchdump #traditional art #rough art #spiralshells art

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it ok

#cant sleep reblogging it ok for luck #reblog #sketches #blehhh too tired for tags mweb #rls sucks ass u guys

Baby buggos

#pokemon #fakemon #heracross #pinsir #scyther #creature design #digital art #spiralshells art

Made an evolution for Pinsir since Gamefreak is NEVER FREAKING GOING TO. |:[ Why don't you love Pinsir Nintendo Gamefreak. What did it do to fall from grace in your eyes.

#no the mega does not count!!!#scyther got both a proper evo AND a mega #while his brother pinsir gets nothing #ishihara are you listening #is anybody listening #pinsir #pokemon #fakemon #digital art #spiralshells art #character design #creature design

Guy whose entire personality is Gas Mask

#still on my gas mask bullshit #character design #creature design #gas mask #body horror #digital art #spiralshells art

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Made of carcinogens and love

#reblog #creature design #monsters #clusters #slime #character design #digital art #spiralshells art

Made of carcinogens and love

#yes this is an evo for the nuclear waste guy from before #he was too fun i got obsessed #i have been trying to simplify my coloring process but #this seemed to necessitate some complexity #creature design #monsters #clusters #slime #character design #digital art #spiralshells art

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From a list of some funky animals I like lol

#hognose snake #polls #not art

Boing boing chomp

#creature design #digital art #spiralshells art

Welcome to Magic Monster Land, lucky child of fortune! Meet your randomly assigned best friend, NUCLEAR WASTE!

#creature design #monsters #clusters #digital art #spiralshells art

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My son Goobert who drinks 8 glasses of formaldehyde a day.

Incredibly, the name "Frankenmon" is not yet taken by a canon Digimon, but alas I have grown partial to Goobert.

#goobert he remains #reblog

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