#Kretinus

[almightyhamslice]

"Help yourself, Kretinus! No one's around to stop us."

Insektober day 3: Patrol!

Lukanus takes advantage of his patrol duty by stealing the Verigreens' tomatoes! There's plenty in the patch so it's not like the Verries will starve, it's just generally dickish behavior. Like he bit into one with his mandibles! Have some consideration for others, man!

Kretinus is unsure about this whole situation-- he trusts Lukanus since he's his boss and his friend but he's not comfortable with stealing. He supposes Lukanus knows better than him, so he goes along with his plan. Tomatoes are pretty tasty, after all. Kretinus doesn't get to eat them very often in day to day life in Krud City since they don't cultivate them within the stump.

This is absolutely something Lukanus does repeatedly! For as loyal of a soldier as Lukanus is, he doesn't feel he "deserves" the ascetic rules and restrictions of Krud life and often picks and chooses what to follow and what to ignore. He is absolutely this way about food, and tries to be secretive about indulging in Verigreen flavors (he cannot just ask the Verries for dinner because he thinks it would be traitorous of him to treat them as equals!) so he engages in very pest-like behavior whenever he can.

[almightyhamslice]

Here's my aforementioned Flynn design (among other things)! I based his mask off an allosaurus skull teehee... He has different eyes in his Krud disguise because he's aware that his eyes were the only thing he couldn't change back when he snuck into Krud City disguised in ep 1! I think some Kruds think he's a bit familiar looking though....

Anywayz your drawing is so cute! They're so goth LOL

Insektober Day 22 Masquerade

A Late drawing today and so far.

Makria is rather surprise to see a familiar looking bug at the party (Its Flynn disguised as a krud).

A Full colour revealed of Makria’s Masquerade outfit.

Flynn’s Masquerade outfit is designed by @almightyhamslice

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Insektober day 24: Prank

Kurkulie convinced Synapse to use the Sky Breaker on the first day of May, so when Nokturno wakes up, she thinks it's the middle of winter! Due to her complicated upbringing (she was raised underwater, then developed her hibernation condition shortly after emerging on land) Nokturno has never seen snow in her entire life!

[almightyhamslice]

Insektober day 12: Mystery!

Kaboche tries to read Sherlock Holmes to Kretinus, but he passes out after a few chapters. Unity, however, is eager to hear the end of the story even though she's read it 10 times before!

If you remember, Unity is the former librarian of Krud City and a ghost inhabiting it in the present day. She talks to Kruds who care for the library and make offerings to her! Most Kruds are so careless with the books and shelves, but Kaboche is at least decently respectful. He likes to visit the library during his lunch break and even keeps a mini fridge in there for snacks of his. He offers them to Unity, but she can't actually eat them since she's a ghost and it'd go right through her! But she is flattered by the gesture.

I dunno if Kretinus can see her, but I'm sure Unity's happy to see her nephew again regardless! I think he would like to try to talk to her but often doesn't have the time... today's failed book club session not withstanding LOL. Related, Synapse and Kurkulie can't see Unity either!

Also I slightly revised Unity's design since the last time you saw her! I switched her color scheme around so now her face is darker and her eyes have brighter highlights to better reflect actual Boll weevils. I'm also RLLY tempted to draw her with pompoms on her shoes to match her eyelashes (which are meant to resemble cotton balls cuz boll weevils eat cotton) but I honestly worry it'll make her look too much like a clown LOL. Maybe I should just lean into it at this point smh... Boll Weevils are pretty funny. they have their own monument and everything!!

I dont think Kretinus likes Sherlock Holmes much. Maybe they should introduce him to BBC's version of the story... LOL! just kidding I never watched that shit lmao

[almightyhamslice]

a bunch of slapdash insektors comics I drew! if theyre on the same level, that means they’re 2 parts of the same comic.

[almightyhamslice]

“TIGER’S EYE SAMA!!??!”

I am NOT fucking late I PROMISE I was just fucken busy today (not a lot of time to draw this since I had volunteer work today). I will admit I didn’t have to go this hard for a fucken crossover prompt lol... but too bad!! I had this idea in my head since I started insektober essentially. Insektors x Houseki No Kuni! Kretinus is Imperial Topaz and Fulgor is Fire Opal. Peg and Elmo are lunarians! 

I wanted to use HNK because of the juxtaposition between it and Insektors. I mean I guess they’re kinda similar in a weird way? Kruds and Verigreens, like Earth gems and Moon gems, are almost exactly the same, and yet... they have to fight due to ideological differences essentially. Is that a stretch? I dunno.

... plus my crab brain saw an opportunity to draw gems n leapt at it lol. I CANT HELP IT, GEMS ARE RLLY FUN TO DRAW! 

[almightyhamslice]

forgot to post yesterday but YAY I FINISHED INSEKTOBER WAHOOO!!! the prompt was Trick Or Treat. it’s a flashback set 14 yrs prior to the show, so the characters are kids.

[almightyhamslice]

May for Nokturno and Kretinus. He’s always sad to have to drag her back to his mom’s office at the end of the month.

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idk if Kruds have cameras but they should. Anyways here’s Kretinus as a larva, and his mom Kurkulie. She’s a filbert weevil.

[emilyrosebug]

(Drawn on Colors Live)

Happy Halloween!

This was a fun challenge to do.

The final prompt of this challenge is a halloween themed. This drawing is from the Chroma AU as Wasabi dress as a knight and Fugg as a pirate are seen trick or treating in the human world.

Insektors (C) Fantome

[dnpanimationstudioclone]

Awesome!

(Drawn on Colors Live)

Draffsack: Why didn't I think of this sooner? The reason the Verigreens always triumph is Flynn's heroic antics. But what if he does something bad, heh heh.

Fugg: Are you sure, my lord? You know, to have Wasabi wandering in The Flowered City posing as Flynn. He doesn't even sound like him.

Wasabi: Enough Talking! More Paint Spraying!

Fugg: No worries. I'm only halfway there.

Draffsack: Heh-Heh! No one will suspect that our general is their hero Flynn. Synapse! Are the wings done yet?

This was the hardest to come up with something for this prompt. But then something pops up, this morning.

As seen on this picture, Draffsack disguise Wasabi as Flynn in an attempt to frame the latter. Will it succeed?

Insektors (C) Fantome

[almightyhamslice]

today’s prompt was ‘rainbow’.

Kretinus takes Nokturno to watch the sun set. He’s not a huge fan of the bright colors, but he’s glad that Nokturno seems to like them.

[almightyhamslice]

Full-color drawings of all my Insektors characters, other than Kachhua since I already drew several of her. They are, in order: Iridamorous, Makabris, Nokturno, Okagne, and Kurkulie. Iridamorous is a Verigreen, all the others are Kruds. You may recognize Makabris, Kurkulie, and Okagne from sketches I’ve posted on this blog previously! 

Iridamorous, or Irid for short, is a bagworm moth. He has quite a knack for building things, and is good friends with Kachhua. He’s also a spy, so they do spend lots of time together outside of the Flowered City. He is a frequent victim of mistaken identity, by the Kruds he often eavesdrops on. They never suspect a thing...

Makabris is a stink bug. He is the Kruds’ blacksmith, and he supplies Synapse with metal as well as helping him construct his machines. Makabris tries to maintain a good relationship with all the Kruds, though it can be difficult sometimes due to his... scent. He has something of a brotherly bond with Krabouic and Kaboche.

Nokturno is a mayfly. She is basically comatose 11 out of 12 months of every year, awakening only for May. Feeling like she’d be a burden to the Kruds otherwise, she assigned herself the job of inspector, tasked with writing down anything dangerous or suspicious she finds within the city during her only month awake. Kurkulie is in charge of monitoring her for the rest of the year, after the end of May. It’s a rather time-consuming job, but at least it’s been easy. Nokturno is quite fond of Kretinus, since he’s always the one to walk her around the city & tell her what she’s missed each year.

Okagne is a jumping spider. She is a weaver, and she specializes in blankets... mostly because her fellow Kruds don’t really tend to wear clothes that aren’t metal armor or merely part of their exoskeleton. She’s the second youngest (named) Krud in the city, other than Max of course, and is very energetic and a bit naïve. As a spider, of course her primary medium is silk... though, she is known to use more coarse material out of spite if someone makes her mad (like Krabo LOL).

Kurkulie is a filbert weevil. She is the Kruds’ doctor, a position she shares with Synapse if things get dire. She’s a very kind and caring person, but isn’t as knowledgeable on medicine as she ought to be. If she isn’t confined to her office with Nokturno, she can often be found in the library looking through medical books for assistance. She is farsighted, and needs glasses to read and work... which she rests on her antennae. Perfect spot for them, correct angle and everything! She is Kretinus’ mother, and they are very close. She loves her son dearly, no matter how many mistakes he makes.

whew, that was a lot more text than I thought I was gonna write LOL. Hope you like them though! I had fun designing all of them!

[almightyhamslice]

yeah I’m rlly sorry for this one if anyone was expecting the meta knight thirst to be a 1-time thing it’s rlly not

but it was rlly funny like ok for reference nearly everything I posted today & yesterday except the daspleto thing and the comic with Kretinus was from literally yesterday. and I came up with 3 whole ass ocs on the spot yesterday as well. so as you can imagine my wrist was already dying but SUDDENLY I was just like “ok no I HAVE to draw Meta Knight now or else” so. thats why this exists. my wrist is only slightly recovered but it was worth it ig!!

[almightyhamslice]

Insektors fan-character creation guide, please? 🤩🤩🤩

Ok honestly I'm not the absolute authority on Insektors OCs nor do I have a super strict method, BUT I will take you through my personal design process!!

So firstly, I decide on a species of bug. This is the foundation of the design, so it's pretty important! I often choose insect species that are personal to me in some way, but it's totally ok to pick a species just because it looks cool! I did that for Drako, Kurkulie, and Nokturno, lol.

Species also has somewhat of a bearing on personality, in many different ways. Makabris is super burly because stink bugs are a type of shield bug so he's very defensive, but he's also rather easily embarrassed due to his reflexive defensive chemical spray. Kachhua is prone to lying because the green tortoise beetle mimics the ladybug, pretending to be something it's not.

It can also be fun to invert species tropes when designing a character! Iridamorous is very gender non-conforming, while bagworms are extremely dimorphic IRL. He borrows traits from male and female bagworm moths, but is most easily distinguished as male because he flies. Rook is a water strider, but he has severe thalassophobia (or... hydrophobia, perhaps? which is funny since water strider legs are hydrophobic in a biological sense) and wears a coat that looks just like a life jacket.

Regarding species, there's also anatomy to think about.

I think generally when designing Insektors characters, it's completely acceptable to play fast & loose when it comes to bug anatomy. Generally characters will have less arms/legs than their IRL counterparts, and some can have very fantastical features (canonically: Krabouic & Kaboche have weird teeth, Synapse has a large crest instead of a long snout like Kretinus even though they're both weevils, and neither Aelia nor Pyro have proboscises)!

It's also okay if you pick a species that's kind of close to a canon character's species, and your fan character looks nothing like them. Like I said before, Synapse and Kretinus are both weevils and look nothing like each other! Iridamorous is a moth just like Pyro, but he doesn't look like him, and Makabris is a type of shield bug just like Krabouic and Kaboche (though, that's just my headcanon personally. They're really vaguely designed imo lol... but I guess that's more reason to get experimental with anatomy, right?) So really, I think nothing is off the table.

Generally most Insektors characters do have the same number of eyes as their IRL counterparts, but Prince Max and Queen Bakrakra do not. This could mean that 2 eyes is just the standard for all characters, but I don't think it's set in stone, hence why Zarojo has eyespots & goggles with 3 lenses, and Okagne has 6 eyes.

Stylistically, I try and stay as close as possible to the source material, though it's fun to break a few rules every now and then!

A lot of my characters are modeled after canon characters, having something of an amalgamation of multiple characters' features. I think Okagne is likely the least canon-compliant of the roster, since she has fuzz all over (which isn't exhibited on any of the characters), weird eyes, and extra arms that take on a weird shape. Fuzz in general may be non-canon-compliant because I imagine it'd be a pain to render using such old cgi technology, but I think it looks cute & it'd be weird for certain bugs not to have it (except Nokturno, Mayflies don't actually have fuzz at all- I just drew her with a fluffy collar because it made her look cooler LOL). Plus, the UK dub mentions that Pyro has dandruff... which you have to have hair in order for it to manifest!! So of course insektors characters can be fluffy!

Additionally, I don't really draw FCs with eyelashes, since no characters in the show have them. The exception to this would be Unity, because I wanted to think of a unique antenna placement for her that'd be different from all the other weevils. So generally I avoid eyelashes, but like a lot of other features, I'm sure they're possible! Also don't be afraid to give your characters more human-looking clothing. I personally like to skew towards more organic-looking outfit designs, but again Pyro proves to be a very helpful reference in this situation! He DEFINITELY wears clothes that are not made of exoskeleton material. Crosette wears actual clothing, and so does Kaliko. Okagne and Iridamorous are intentionally ambiguous, and Makabris and Kachhua's 'outfits' are definitely all just part of their bodies. Fun fact, Makabris' collar pattern (the part before the stripe at the end) is intended to look like a fading houndstooth pattern!

Lastly, character names!

I like giving my characters rather verbose names, though some of them (Drako & Rook) are rather brief. Most character names I decide on have some form of meaning behind them, and others are chosen just because I think they'd sound cool (like Kaliko lol). For more examples: Zarojo's name is pretty simple & just based on their maroon coloration ("za rojo"- the rojo- the red), Crosette is named after a type of firework (since she's a red cracker butterfly, it made me think of firecrackers), and Nokturno's name is derived from 'nocturnal' (since she's asleep when the Kruds are active... it's not a perfect description since she isn't really nocturnal, but it does sound cool LOL). I tend to think of names last, since it usually takes me ages to come up with them. Nokturno especially, I have files on my computer calling her 'Nokturna' and 'Nokturnus' because I couldn't decide at first. Also, I like to include 'K' in most of my kruds' names, to match the naming scheme used in the original version & NA dub of the show. This is DEFINITELY optional, and I don't follow it all the time.

So, that's about all I've got I think. I hope you found this helpful, and have fun drawing your character(s)! I'll have to check the Insektors tag more often, I'd love to see other people's characters! I think I've actually only met one other person who even HAS insektors fan characters, and that's @dnpanimationstudioclone lol! so, shoutout to her as well. (she also inspired me to call Lord Draco 'lord' instead of 'king' during a discussion we were having on discord)

[almightyhamslice]

What if Flug was Max’s tutor instead of Krabo. Perhaps was even the one who helped take care of Max when he was younger when the Queen was busy. I watched a court ep, and it seems Flugg‘s nto To bad. Defientley has a soft spot for babies

Hm, I don't know how that would go! Kretinus certainly is... nice by Krud standards, but he's also incredibly dim-witted. I think if he was Prince Max's tutor, Max would probably escape MORE than he does under Krabo's watch, LOL! Or perhaps Max would be able to convince Kretinus to follow him on his adventures? That'd be a fun little AU to explore, haha

.... actually now that you mention it, yeah, who would've taken care of Max as a kid? I HIGHLY doubt Krabo would even have the patience for that! Maybe that WOULD be something Kretinus would do? Hmm...