Going back to one of the earliest v-pet sprites I did, think on how much humanoid monster design hinges on occlusion esp. eyes or mouth. Absent other monstrous features its a well I notice Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh character designs going back to often.

For small sprites like these, its also helpful since mouth or eye details are challenging to indicate on smaller or distant subjects... but as much as I could id like to avoid chibi-fying or eliminating design features for the sake of a single illustration.

Finger groupings are similar: five fingers, visible eyes when uncovered, visible mouth when uncovered, these things to me would ideally be sacrosanct for human-monsters outside really extreme angles. (Let the cavegirl here by the exception that makes the rule :'D)

Naming stuff: Digimon and MMBN loom large, they're almost so iconic to me its hard to carve out your own interesting naming niche. Leaning right now to calling the monsters "Daemons", from the computing term... generic but versatile and punchy and not "IP"

@adamjmarin Awesome design, the way you did the background makes it feel like she’s charging at you at immense speeds for an attack! 😁

@mirrutatep Thank you Mirru! :)) yeah I'm pleased with the speed line stuff!

@adamjmarin Dear Adam thank you for share your great work! I try to create battle disk like your's and I inspire your jobs thank you again <3 and also I want to ask how did you do disk backgrounds I tried some backgrounds but I dont like it much what's your motivation to create background ty

@raggeaton For all the pieces in this series so far, I drew a super loose sketch at 2x size to get a sense of the composition. At this stage, I resolve the basic layout but always leave room for adjustments in the pixel stage. For BG color: I try depicting my subject in as few clrs [...]

@adamjmarin these all rock so hard

@ticosanchezz Thank you Tico! 🙏

@adamjmarin I love these so much!