Scorpion Pit

Howdy!
Welcome to my happy place.
Mind the mutagenic sludge, and please don't feed the machinery.
Oh, and holler if you see a big toothy cyborg thing covered in runes…
always knows when it's bath time somehow.

By the way, if you like what you see and want to enable me to make more of it, I have a tip jar over on ko-fi! :3 █

SCP-058 (Heart of Darkness)

A heart of darkness.

Happy Valentines day to everybody on one of the few places where this wouldn't be taken as a sign of social maladjustment. X3

SCP-075 (Corrosive Snail)

Cue David Attenborough:
And here we have a prime specimen of the great corrosive snail finishing off its latest kill in the lush wetlands of its native homeworld. This balmy area sees as much as 11 cm of rain per year, and the corrosive snail has evolved to make the most of the prey this bounty attracts. Its powerful digestive acid dissolves all edible material into base chemicals for easy consumption, even the bones; what is not metabolized immediately is compressed and stored within the shell. When the floodwaters recede and the humidity once again drops below 1%, the snail will return to dormancy, living off these copious reserves while patiently waiting for clouds to once again eclipse the blistering twin suns and summon a new feast.

SCP-466 (Mobile Veins)

I rest my case for why SCP-466 was one of my top picks in 2016's March Madness showdown.

SCP-682 (Hard-To-Kill Reptile)

Like a lot of people on this site, 682 is a guilty pleasure of mine.
This is roughly how I always picture SCP-682's default state; I'd be interested to hear how it compares to other people's mental images. ^_^

SCP-748-5 (Industrial Dissolution: The Factory's Workers)

Data recovered from comm network black box, former Site 68
Agent Farlow: Uh, HQ? Doing my rounds down here on the Production floor, and I think some of the machinery just started back up.
Assistant Director of Security Phillips: Agent, I'm not sure I copy, please repeat?
Agent Farlow: This is Agent Farlow, patrolling the Production floor. I definitely have operational machiner-
[distant clatter, followed by rapid series of modulating tones]
Agent Farlow: …the hell?
ADS Phillips: Report, agent. Whats going on down there?
Agent Farlow: HQ, I've got movement down here. Other than the machinery, that is. Think we've got intruders; moving in to check it out.
ADS Phillips: Recon only. Do not confront. I'll send some backup your way.
[Sounds of rapid heavy impacts on metal interspersed with rapidly modulated tones]
Agent Farlow: Shit. Might be looking at a raid here… like CotBG or something, 'cause I don't think these guys are human. Pretty sure one of 'em just cleared a twenty foot gap in the catwalks.
ADS Phillips: Agent, withdraw to the stairwell and wait for backup.
Agent Farlow: Just a sec- one of 'ems holding still. Doing something with one of the control banks. Think I can get a better look…
[Nearby heavy impact followed by sustained high pitched squeal]
Agent Farlow: Confirming non-human.
[sustained high pitch squeal interspersed with screaming and rapid modulating tones]

SCP-1507 (Pink Flamingos)

And then the escaping d-class quietly closed the door, and looked for another exit.

SCP-1585 (Red Queen Island)

Its kind of weird, working on the aerial view made me realize both how small and how freaking huge SCP-1585 is. It'd be hard to get lost on it, but there's plenty of room for a whole bunch of critters. Its bigger than some of the inhabited islands of Micronesia.

SCP-1692 (Came Back Haunted)

♫and we'll head down to the dead stuff hole…♫

Foxes have red eyes, breath carbon dioxide, and talk, right? Eh, close enough.
Keep practicing, freaky sinkhole in a swamp with unknown motives. You'll get it right eventually.

I freely admit this one stumped me for a while. On top of the hard-to-pin-down effect, I didn't want to just crib off the awesome page image. I also wanted to do something with its current status, where now it's settling for trying to replicate animals. Think this does the job of capturing the idea, but I might have to revisit this scip at some point.

SCP-1802 (''Skip'')

He's just so darned enthusiastic and curious about the world. ^_^
Should've made the goggles bigger, but that's speedpainting for you; no second guesses.

SCP-2102 (Got Shoggoth?)

With this one I tried a technique I'd been wanting to test drive for a while; started out mocking up the hallway, lighting, and the shoggoth with basic 3d shapes and some textures in Blender, and did a quick and dirty render to use as the base for the painting. Not much of that ended up in the final image, but it did help plan out the screwy fisheye perspective I needed for this one, and being able to play with the lighting in advance saved some time on the palette mixing side. Not a game changer, but a nice tool to have.

Still want to know if I screwed up the Russian on that sign or not. That's the sort of thing that bothers me and I only sort-of read that particular language. X3

SCP-2106 (A Conspiracy of Ravens)

Sometimes I have a hard time deciding if a piece is pretty or disturbing.
This is one of those pieces.
Might be both this time.

SCP-2125 (The Hanging Tree)

Just love how this one turned out.

SCP-2331 (SCRAVECROW)

Sometimes you have to reinvent yourself to stay who you are.

SCP-2337  (Dr. Spanko)

Went through a bunch of brainstorming sketches for this one, trying to find an idea that really captured the little guy's vibe. And then it hit me while I was trawling google for pictures of corkcrakes: Audobon.

Crex Crex Conclamani: The Cacophonic Corn Crake

SCP-2490 (Chaos Insurgency Special Operative Alpha-19)

Now I get it.

SCP-2527 (Masseys Big Chance)

Massys Big Chance Too: Contaminant Breach!
Now with 16 bit grahpics!

SCP-2574 (What Rough Beast)

Mood music: Crusaders- Excision, Downlink, and Space Laces, Surviors - Zomboy & MUST DIE!, Requiem for a Dream - Obsidia Remix

SCP-2664 (Redline)

To quote the Little Sisters from Bioshock: "Three'stoomanythree'stoomanyTHREESTOOMANY!"

Mood music: Flaming Telepaths - Blue Oyster Cult, Lightbringer - Far Too Loud

SCP-2792 (Sara Snow Rabbit)

I've decided a good project for my next manic phase will be making similar adorable desecrations of all the pitch haven characters.

SCP-2863 (がしゃどくろ)

I have a new headcanon: squid trawlers don't actually need all those floodlights to attract the squid. They are a Foundation campaign to keep tsunami-generated Gashadokuro from wandering inland.

SCP-2922 (Notes From the Under)

"Your shadow at morning striding behind you.
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you.
I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
- The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot

Mood music: https://youtu.be/nw5Mc5bpq-A, https://youtu.be/k8GRwt0Aa-A

@Dave: Make moar stories here.

SCP-666-J (Dr Gerald's Driving Skills)

mood music: https://youtu.be/nqLArgCbh70 (though far inferior to the7:29 full (aka real) version, the radio edit gets the job done.)

SCP-723-J (Sad Roach)

Mood music: https://youtu.be/k1-TrAvp_xs

SCP-4357-J (Cooperative Demon)

While reprimanded for unauthorized creation of a minor cogitohazard, Junior Researcher Vasquez was also awarded an official commendation following the most recent breach by SCP-4357-J. Thanks to her ingenuity in the face of great personal danger, SCP-4357-J was recovered without casualty, found in a catatonic state beside wing 3's auxiliary evacuation hatch.

O4. Mr. Collector

a limited edition collection from Dr. Wondertainment!

One of my favorite short tales on the site, from one of my favorite story arcs.
Came out about 70% as cool as it looked in my head, so I'm happy. X3
Also, I once again remember that fedoras are really freaking hard to draw.

Darkblade is victorious

In theory the Japanese text reads:

"You(offensive form)…"
"…"
"…who are you?(archaic respected superior form)"

I almost think it would be better if I screwed it up. X3
mood music
Listened to this SO many times while doing this one.

Vincent Anderson

This one has been drawing itself in my head since I read No Good Deed.

Mood music: Alan Walker-Memories, Feint-Fury (the warring melodies= the two Vincent Andersons.), and my personal pick for Anderson's theme song, Julian Calor - Sorcerer

The Rookie

Next time I get the bright idea of combining forced perspective and anime proportions, somebody smack me. My "image is breaking the rules of anatomy and perspective" senses spent the whole time yelling at me. X3
Much headache, many erasings.

Hallway Poster: Safe is not safe

Hallway Sign: ___ Days since last breach

Hallway Sign: Keter wing.

Moose.

^_^
http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-2156618#post-2762537

WIP for Pretty Magic Gaiden Mecha Tokyo-Mon Demon Ninja Sailor Clef

Inspired by the brilliant madness that is Pretty Magic Gaiden Mecha Tokyo-Mon Demon Ninja Sailor Clef

So far we have Mecha-nobody, the black queen, monkey!Bright, Dr. Gerald, SCP-2006-j, Kondraki with SCP-682 and SCP-408, Dr. Gears (I decided he's a cyborg in this 'verse), SCP-040, Able, and Pretty Magic Gaiden Mecha Tokyo-Mon Demon Ninja Sailor Clef himself in all his disquieting glory.

The list of characters I'm working on adding or have already added on the version on my harddrive includes:
Dr. Rights, Dr. Elliot of SCP-2108, SCP-777-j, Zyn: kaiju butterfly ninja master and Griffin Lovecraft Also Mark with his butterflies as a hat Also Riven with his telekill goggles, SCP-2103-J, SCP-2337, SCP-953, Alexei Belitrov, Anderson, Ruiz, The Black Rabbit Company,SCP-2800 SCP-2992, and pretty much everybody in the Personnel And Character Dossier

I'm actively looking for suggestions on who and what else needs to be in the full version: I'm looking to fill up the whole page ala one of those anime posters with everyone that's ever been on the show on them. (Leave suggestions here if you have them!)

I'd do 173 but I'm kind of considering selling prints if there's enough of a response.

SCP-015 (Pipe Nightmare) Page Image

When I saw that one of my favorites among the old guard had lost its page image, I knew I had to make it a replacement.

For those interested, various part of this started out as a raid on my stock photos that netted a tractor engine, an industrial generator, some rusty pipes, an airplane fuel truck, a couple different buildings, and a workover rig.

By the way: Wanna see something cool? Squint at this one.
(If you still don't see it, the two lights towards the middle are the eyes, and the line of pipes on the floor are the tongue.)

SPC-140 (Chronicle of the Sharkic War) Page Image

This is what happens when GT kids grow up and collaborate unsupervised. You get detailed, deadpan analysis of sharktopus people and image search histories that include "octopus dissections" and "18th century medical illustrations".