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Fall 2020, Character & Environment Design
Project 1: Character Pencils
Just another little creeture
A little creature from my sketchbook
An unlikely family (2021)
found family trope <3
Tea and a Chat (2020)
I actually don't mind (for the most part) how the anatomy came out on these. Despite our lecturer having no idea how to draw actual bodies and muscleature and being generally really stupid with how she described the "differences in body shapes"
Gradeschool level anatomy class aside, I actually don't mind some parts of these. And also you get some rough monster designs as a palette cleanser.
some colour/design practice, just while I can.
17th September, 2020
For any wondering, here is the list I have so far for the fem primarchs and their monstrous transformations/"true forms"
Freya(Leman)- Wolfen
Atlantia(Angron)- Lioness deamon
Cora(Corvus)- Crow deamon
Mortica(Mortarion)-Insectiod (preying mantis, centipede, fly)
Hestia(Vulkan)- A giant salamander dragon (no wings)
Ferra(Ferrus Manus)-Necron reserected (biotransferance)
Sanguinia(Sanguinius)- Mantacore but snow lepord instead of lion
Fulgrim- Deep sea fish/siren
Kassandra(Konrad)- Vampire Bat
Magnolia(Magnus)- elder mummy litch or Owl+Peacock?
Jagathai- actual war hawk or cheeta?
Petra(Perturabo)- ?
Hathor(Horus)- ?
Renala(Rogal Dorn)- ?
The Lioness (The Lion)- Chimaera
Juno(Robuté Guilliman)- Bovine/Cow/Minotaur
Arellia(Logar)-?
Alpharia/Omega(Alpharius and Omegon)- ?
If you couldn't tell, this is not a complete list! And for the question mark ones, please feel free to submit ur ideas! (I am trying to avoid the obvious choices, i.e., The Lioness being a lion, but I'm open if you have a unique spin)
This project is a community share alike, so if u wanna use these designs in ur artwork, go for it! I really want this to be a group effort!!!
River/bridge troll. Humans tend to build bridges over “inconvenient” bodies of water, which is coincidently where there be trolls.
Ah you know the ol' featherspider infestation
Silly little snake plant sketch :)
I got older today woo🎉
fucked up baboon-based monstrosity i made while waiting for a response from a commissioner!!
i hate looking at it
I need to start posting my art on tumblr. IDK how to tag so-
Doing a big project for an art course! Basically I’m designing 20 creatures including this boy, and then illustrating them in an unique fantastical environment :D
an artistic liberty monster design commission I did for a con client ::)
a boss sprite I made for a game demo a few years ago, sadly I couldn’t finish the demo due to life.
Assorted sketches of the ryerunner, an ostrich-sized herbivore that lives on the wheat-covered planet Alicanto. Its frilled eyestalks fold over its head, forming a sort of natural balaclava that shields its eyes and upper nostrils in the strong winds. When extended, the underside is a bright, iridescent white; the sudden flash of a ryerunner's frill can be disorientating to practically anything with eyes in the dull sepia landscape.
Though they, as obligate herbivores, have little interest in eating other animals, ryerunners engage in a particularly gruesome form of kleptoparasitism: using their long front claw, they will cleanly "dissect" other plant-eating animals for their stomach contents (and another other occasional treats, such as gestating eggs or large internal parasites). By seeking out this partially digested food, they are able to add significant variation to their diet and include vegetation they would otherwise not be able to access. Attacks on carnivores are rarer, though still not especially uncommon. Herds of ryerunner will sometimes curiously follow animals, nutritional value or no, for up to several hours - both at ground level and by climbing to the surface of the wheat to stalk from above - before killing and carefully "dismantling" said animal as a group, a play behavior that reinforces social bonds and strengthens valuable hunting skills.
Smaugust 2024 by Critbit
some more doodles of Lily and her alien companion
was feeling very sad today so I did these to cheer myself up a bit
Just wanted to share some of my OCs! They're some of my favorite DnD characters I ever played as~
(this art is pretty old but I think it still kinda holds up)
London is a wizard apprentice (and also an EXTREME failgirl) who thinks she's human but she's actually part Hexkin - a race of humanoid arthropods. It's a Jekyll and Hyde kinda situation where at certain moments she loses control of her instincts and transforms into the monstrous moth creature Phobos.
London uses her owl plush to talk to her monstrous self, whom she refers to as her sister. Phobos uses the lil caterpillar plush to talk to London when she's in control
some doodles + art of them in the Don't Starve style hehe
yknow what fuck it i made a lil comic
dont worry they're space roommates
Last night I had a dream about an alien woman that looked kinda like this, so I've made some doodles
Last night I had a dream about an alien woman that looked kinda like this, so I've made some doodles
This game is literally so beautifull. I hope it will get picked up by another comapany/studio. It has the potential to become a masterpiece and a hudge success. I want it to be real so bad. And people were working on it for so long too :/ Here is the link to a petition
Project Dragon / Everhaven
I heard about Project Dragon aka Everhaven on Twitter/X through game artist Nicholas Kole's social media posts. It looked like a very interesting game; choosing from a variety of fictional races besides humans, taming animal mounts, building our own land and exploring the world. I was surprised by how close it was to being announced before Phoenix Labs canceled the game weeks before release.
I want to see it brought back and finished! #BringBackProjectDragon! Spread the word!
Fauns, Wyvarr, Valekin and Purrlan playable race (left to right) artwork below by @/nicholaskole!
Tameable mounts artwork by @/nicholaskole!
Day 8 - Fungus The Kayeri are a folklore found in Colombia and Venezuela, much taller, larger and faster than the average human they are capable of swiping the local cattle in their arms to feast on soon later as prey. Despite their fungi appearance, they are far more vicious in the stories than you'd realise with an alarming amount of misdeeds within their tales. In this sense, you can categorise them equivalent to Ogres with many comparisions to be made. Never judge a beast by its appearance, we've learned today.