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Helsingarurumon

Helsingarurumon!
Another design in the Garurumon family by me. My other design, "Finalgarurumon" is more of a 'god' level digivolution, whereas this one is simply envisioned as an alternate mega to Metalgarurumon.

This time around I thought about how best to naturally continue the line post-Weregarurumon, now digivolving from a 'werewolf' type design into the very thing that can hunt werewolves ergo a 'monster hunter' character like Van Helsing. I've always found the slapped on cyber-wolf Metalgarurumon at the end of the evolutionary line a little random, don't get me wrong he's cool as hell, I just feel that conceptually the design kind of came out of nowehere. I find the theme of imposter in wolf's clothing -> actual wolf -> werewolf -> lupine monster hunter far more logical and I am surprised digimon didn't really try do anything like this to begin with. Plus, I'm fairly certain if you ran a poll about Metalgarurumon going quadrapedal after it's ultimate form, you would get a fair portion of people that would express their dissapointment; I'm not one of those people by the way, but that's a discussion for another time.

As for how I've done with this design, to be perfectly honest I'm a little dissapointed with the final result, but I'm posting it now because I would like to move on to other things. I think the silhouette could be a little more stylish and unique and there's something about the details of this design which could use a little bit more of the classic digimon "grunge"/"edginess". I also really just fumbled out the background with little care - I despise backgrounds! What do you guys think? What's your opinion on Weregarurumon to Metalgarurumon?

Final image with design Modifications

Final image with design Modifications

Old design

Old design

Colour Adjustment

Colour Adjustment

Initial toplight and shadows

Initial toplight and shadows

Colour concept art

Colour concept art

Rough sketch

Rough sketch