It has become my mission to find a way to make transformations into certain animals look cool, not disturbing or awkward :’D No shade to artists/ art appreciators that love body horror or uneven transformations, I can appreciate those too and draw them sometimes myself, but fluid and empowering transformations are my favorite kind <3 It’s also how the shapeshifting magic in my “Animal Raiment” setting usually works so I used Fane as my subject for this piece.

Each of his climbing picks are actually two very thin picks that are held together with a web-like fiber. Fane can use these tools, and other magical items, to transform into a tarantula! He does this often to make himself harder to detect or easier to carry around. Lu (The creature at the bottom of the image) doesn’t mind acting as her friend’s taxi. In fact she’s the one that called out to him to come join her! She probably found something cool to show him, and Lu knows she can run faster in her chomer form than Fane can as a human.

I actually sketched this composition back in 2022 but then it sat in my wips folder for literal years :’D Obviously the cleanup and color took a while but I eventually got it done!

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Fane Ref - https://www.furaffinity.net/view/47587054/

Lu Ref - https://www.furaffinity.net/view/47586968/