The Crawler’s Queen is part of the Butterflycity illustration series. It depicts the scene when the Crawlers decide to build their own queen as a response to the Butterflies' Queen arrival. However, something goes wrong, the crawlers engineers don’t do the right calculations and the creature-machine-building comes out as a hybrid zoomorphic creation that would turn out the butterflycity world into a realm even more complex than it already was (check out the previous illustrations for this saga).
This piece is full of details and it's so huge that you may want to take a look at some larger formats of it at http://parettidesign.blogspot.com/2009/08/crawlers-queen.html

While working on it, I got a bit inspired on two main aesthetic references: the style of painted illustrations done by Simon Bisley (a comic book artist I was a fan of when being a little kid) and also by the machine-like creatures called Zerg from a game I used to play quite often back a decade ago: Starcraft, eventhough I always found back then that the graphics for such an awesome game were a bit weak. Well, nowadays cg technology allows us to do much more complex renderings and visual creations, as the one you see here. Hope you people like it.