An illustration for the article in Palladium Books' Rifter #59: Josh Spinsapaugh's Creatures of the Xiticix Hivelands.

Illustrated here is one of his Xiticix killers. The Vesparix, inspired by certain kinds of wasp, they lay eggs inside Xit grubs as part of the reproduction cycle.

Given that it was 2 weeks from when I was handed the task to publication date, I had to rush out the drawings. This meant no scanning, no playing with tones or shades on computer. Just getting the works done (on bristol, so I could even abandon the drawings at the Palladium offices) and getting them to print.

So I actually took it back a step, and used old-fashioned illustration techniques to shade these. I'll add the Proto-Xit here later, and you can see an example of my stippling. But the Zombie Xiticix is up on my deviantArt.