Deathstalker - Grendel

It was huge and awful, but all Silence got was an impression of glistening scarlet armor and jagged steel teeth. It moved among them, fast as thought, ripping and tearing a path through the marines with teeth and claws, picking marines up and throwing them away as though they were nothing. Everyone was firing their guns, but the alien was never where they aimed. It was huge and fast and deadly and seemed to be everywhere at once. Disruptor beams blazed across the narrow space, cutting down two marines and one of the Wampyr. And then the battle espers hit it with a wave of psychokinetic force, holding it in place through the sheer power of their minds. It looked like a nightmare in spiked bloodred armor, vaguely humanoid in form, its heart-shaped head lacking anything like a human face or expression.

- "Deathstalker," Simon R. Green.

Okay. So it's not precisely how I picture them and I know the pose is familiar ( Y Halo Thar! Am I just completely incapable of drawing horrible monsters killing people while holding arms with their tongues hanging out? I didn't even realize it until five minutes ago. Or that his head looks vaguely like Barney *headdesk headdesk headdesk* ) but I'm... cautiously pleased. It was an experiment with a lighting source that I don't usually use and metallic/chitinous surfaces, both of which I typically suck at. I sucked slightly less here, I think. And I'm really, really proud of the dead body. Should warn for gore, I guess.

Sketched, scanned, colored in PS7.