Ok. This is iteration number... well I'm not sure, actually. I've done lots. But I think it looks better than the last one I showed anyway.

I have to move on to new stuff now, though, so unless anyone really hates it I think this is the final result.

Does this look better?

The snakes and the fungi are on the same SYMBOLS LOW sheet with the same effects. This is to try and cut down the sheer number of sheets in the template, but there is no reason why you can't put the snakes on a different SYMBOLS LOW sheet - SYMBOLS LOW snakes, for example.

(I think I need to redo the pattern a bit - not a great first attempt at a boa)

This is partly true, Dalton. Though a lot of what a symbol looks like is controlled by what the artist does inside the artwork. On the left is the current boa symbol, while on the left is the one I'm working on in light of the flatness issue.

The rattlesnakes will be a slightly bigger problem, since they are really quite rough-skinned, so they don't have a glow down the back like a boa does.

Incidentally, if anyone is wondering how these things are made with a view to making their own snake symbols, check out the brushes top right in this shot. Affinity allows me to draw a perfectly straight snake (which looks really odd considering they never lie in a dead straight line), and then convert that image into a brush. So once the initial drawing is done I can draw the shape and apply the image to that shape.

These are the original dead straight boas used to create the snake brushes.

It works a bit like a cross between symbols along and a connecting symbol, with the central section of the snake repeated as many times as necessary to generate the length.

I think the second option is a bit too plastic looking, so I'll probably use the third version below.

Will rats do?

Snakes, fungi, mould and guano...