[ Melt-Banana ]
April 18, 2025
notes: i drew this on the train up to minneapolis, way back in the spring. this one will show up in a zine somewhere, trust me.
This illustration is a bright blue ink drawing that shows a scene similar to a bullet hell game. The main color palette has light blue, pink, and yellow, with bright blue outlines. The background is a light yellow to blue -green gradient with multi-colored triangles.
At the bottom-left corner is the player character, a pink and blue sea angel with swimming wings. It has a little sigil that it uses to shoot bullets diagonally across the canvas at the boss in the upper right corner. The player is also flanked by two smaller sea angels, who are also shooting bullets of their own. Below the player is a health bar that shows the 3 points of health they have in the form of nudibranch icons. The bar is bordered by lines that are similar to EKG lines.
Coming in from the side are lines of enemies that are different sea animals, like jellyfish, conches, and sea slugs. The drawing is divided into two halves in the middle by a cut-in of a heart with eyes on both sides, as if the player character used a skill in the middle of the game. Sneaking into the canvas are circuit lines, evoking a digital landscape.
In the upper-right corner, the final boss, a large whale-like monster with coral horns, roars. It has its own health bar in the corner, which is decreasing as it is hit by the player's bullets. There are scribbles of ink, meant to represent its name.