To me, this one appears to bear the marks of image editing. Which is fine and all, but, not the most amount of effort. Maybe next time focus on cleaning up the stray pixels a bit more? Nice try, though.

Well, here’s a cheerful fellow.

I’m not entirely certain what the smile is adding to the piece here - without it, it would help to sell the alien nature of this creature. My original read of the crab was something similar to the lobstrosities from the Dark Tower’s The Drawing of the Three. Dad-a-chum?

Still, the notion that the crab is smiling like this as it punches a claw through Jules’ leg is decidedly unsettling, so in a way, this still fits with the horror overtones of the story.

Cute, charming, open-clawed, ready to welcome you to the Sea of Change. Simple in execution but competent. 7 out of 9 pixels.

>>Icenrose
>>GroaningGreyAgony
*Has shamelessly stolen a vector off a google search.

Anyway, one fateful night, I suddenly realized I was right up against the deadline for submission. So, instead of actually drawing this out like I wanted, I threw a pic into Paint and messed around with it...

Only to wake up the next morning and find the deadline extended. Grr.

I suppose my greatest regret is not doing more cleaning of the cropped areas. Anyway, thanks for commenting, and I take my traditional last place with a smile as big as this little guy's, because I had fun!