These are some of the earliest cryptid sketches I have for CryptidCam, back when I was first toying around with the idea of making a game by myself. I was a college student studying game development at the time, so I'd made a lot of games as group projects for class, but group projects require a lot of compromise and back and forth. I was starting to think things like "if I made a game by myself, I could make it whatever I want, and fill it with only the things I like". CryptidCam is a pretty self indulgent project in that way.
I've always been fond of "weird" creatures, so cryptids were a common motif for me. I drew Mothman, Bigfoot, and Jackalopes all the time, but this was the first doodle where I started to hammer out some designs with the intent of making a cast of characters I could put in a game. I even toyed with the idea of making Nessie some kind of large mollusk. Also Sailor Moon is there.
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The Loveland Frogman and the Fresno Nightcrawlers ended up getting added to the cast a little bit later. Here they are in the margins of my notes from Japanese class.