Melyssa has come a long way since her first ever appearance as a random nameless lamia intended for a one-off design in this pic Snug As A Bug. But she's back with an even more mesmerizing stare at you.

As difficult as animation is, I keep getting the itch to do more. And I had an idea for doing the eyes for a hypno pic by just animating one single ring and offsetting the frames and merging them. It didn't end up exactly how I intended originally but it shifted in the creative process.

Overall I'm suuuuper happy with how this came out and I had SO much fun playing with all the effects and stuff to make it pop.

Melyssa may have started with the intention of being a throwaway design for a single pic that people resonated far more than I anticipated, but over the years of drawing her for commissions and eventually for myself, I've really grown to love her quite a lot.

I hope to write up a proper backstory/introduction based on what I hinted at in her refsheet. But for now I'm just having fun drawing her~

There is another picture with her I started drawing just for me, and I realised also that this one looks like it could be linked to it as a POV shot XD

So look forward to that.

(Though I'm so overloaded with commissions and YCHs that it may be a little bit.)

Hope you all enjoy the fruits of one and a half days of hyperfixation. Maybe like 6 or 7 hours in total? 14 FPS, 30 frames.