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j-tee · 6 months

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I cannot stress enough how important the thumb-nailing and color study process is, it makes an insaaaane difference in the quality of (at least my) work. Anyways, here’s a finished final for my sci-fi and fantasy illustration class (the prompt was human and alien interaction).

#art #illustration #drawing #doodle #digital art #scifi #scifiart #alien design

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yellosnacc · 1 month

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My Refugium creature design contest entry

It's one sharp float.

Here's the text closeup tumblr forgot when this got posted.

#refugium2024 #art #speculative biology #artists on tumblr #digital art #artwork #alien design #spec bio #refugium #pinwheel

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selkra-souza · 1 month

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Cutting it close, but here's my entries for the Refugium Creature Design Contest! @simon-roy

The rasparoos are large dog-sized herbivores who leap in family groups along rolling temperate lichenfields, using grazing mandibles to scrape lichens off of rocky surfaces. During the fall season, they fatten up on sugary fermented “honey”-filled pinwheels produced in hives in their territory, obtained by breaking in with their claws and using a long prehensile radula to reach inside, to hibernate in the winter. They fight fiercely to protect these against rival rasparoo family groups. They fight with their clawed forearms, along with their more powerful hind-claws by leaning upright on their stiff tails.

Honey rings are social pinewheels that live in nests as colonies in temperate lichenfields. Their caste system includes workers, the smaller motile form who go out of the colony to collect vegetable matter during warmer seasons to ferment in their stomach acids and store as “honey” in the hive for the snowy seasons. The other caste are the reservoirs, who are blind, sessile and much larger than workers, with characteristic spiral body cavities to store a maximum amount of “honey”. Some of it seeps out of their bodies to stick with one another securely in the hive, aided by their gripping legs clinging to the walls of the hive.

I had a lot of fun with these guys! You can see concept sketches here because I think they're fun.

#refugium2024 #selkra scribbles #my art #speculative biology #spec bio #speculative zoology #astrobiology #xenobiology #alien design #alien #artists on tumblr

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zgasly · 4 months

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A daily reminder how tovoxran toothing looks like <3

#myart #alien #alien species #original alien species #sci fi #science fiction #worldbuilding #speculative evolution #speculative biology #xenobiology #spec bio #spec evo #creature design #creature #monster design #alien design

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joltrify · 6 months

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Messing with Heatblast colors and silhouettes in preparation for next years' redraw!! ft. The real Tennyson

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staladus · 15 days

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There is flesh in these machines

#my art #lost suns #scifi art #digitalart #alien #alien design #robots #cyborg #machinery #mecha #mech design

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copperpipes · 15 days

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It was a pain in the ass rendering this thing

But I regret nothing because look at my boys

I turned Khaji-da into a sick ass horse just because I can and as a reminder that I can, I should, and I will draw more creatures like this in the future.

#blue beetle #jaime reyes #khaji-da #dc blue beetle #cowboy #cowboy blue beetle #monster design #creature design #alien design #digital drawing #my art

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myuniverseinabox · 2 months

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Therivin! Or Theri. NPC Character I made for an RP. I had a lot of fun writing them and I got very attached lol

#artists on tumblr #digital art #art #oc #alien #anthro #original character #creature design #alien design #personal art #my art #RP #Therivin #trying to get better are drawing head on characters with this head shape as well lol #took a lot of inspo/reference from doeprince

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donutdrawsthings · 3 months

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A redesign for Doctor Who Audio Drama character, C'rizz! I really enjoy this character, but I'd be lying if I said my jaw didn't drop once I found out what he supposedly looks like dsaklfjdkslf.

Design Nerding under the cut!

I tried to put more focus on the fact that he's described as a lizard who has an exoskeleton, which I feel is such a cool combination of features that isn't utilised much in his official design.

So I decided to give him more of an inhuman snout to lean more towards the lizard aspect, but have it blend into a helmet-like structure to also give it that exoskeleton look. He also has colourful dots all over his body, which are inspired by the dots on a squid that help it camouflage.

The wiki said he wears a light blue hoodie, but I decided to turn that into a poncho with a hood instead. It felt more appropriate a creature from another species and world wouldn't be wearing a regular hoodie. Instead I imagine the imagery on his poncho to hold cultural value to him that's been lost with his people.

I wanted to give him a tail of sorts, but giving him a lizard tail easily made him feel more EARTH LIZARD than "Alien", so I ended up giving him an abdomen inspired by a mud-dauber wasp instead!

Also, I don't usually draw legs more bend and ending straight down like that, but I thought it'd be fun give C'rizz a more interesting and alien posture. It's a feature that's inspired by @myuniverseinabox's work and how they draw legs for their non-human characters! Go give them some love!

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ollyneanderthal · 26 days

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Some developmental sketches for ohm and the ineffable sea

Plastic golem, milk-apes and the kappa are from the radiation and plastic-poisoned world beneath Uton, the gaoled sun (there are about 7-9 suns in the ineffable sea, sources of different magic and all said to be siblings of one another)

Demons are from another sun, which is partially exploded

The other creatures are from Ohm, under the sun Xol (creator of the celestials and dragons)

(Send me an ask if you're curious about anything from Ohm)

#ollyneanderthal art #fantasy art #fantasy #high fantasy #illlustration #fantasy illustration #speculative biology #speculative zoology #xenobiology #demon #alien design #golem #monster art #creature design #monster design #kappa #troll #dinosaur #homunculus

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kattheerat · 9 months

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another

#creature design #spec evo #spec bio #alien #alien design #speculative evolution #speculative biology #monster design #digital art #my art #bubago

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j-tee · 6 months

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The last 2 illustrations in the alien set 🫡 may or may not revisit these alien guys some day, but I always have some sort of beast or creature in the works.

#art #illustration #drawing #doodle #digital art #concept art #alien design

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dusky-doe · 3 months

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What if I. Just made up my own pandoran creature.

I kind of hate the coloration, so im still working on that. And I still feel like the design is...missing something. Idk i will keep working on it.

#avatar #pandora #pandora avatar #avatar pandora #creature design #alien design #avatar movies #avatar movie #avatar 2022 #avatar 2009 #digital art #digital painting #my art #duskys art

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amartworks · 7 months

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Missed drawing the big eel. Some simple linguistics and culture with Nameless. He is the first alien ever encountered by humans; similarly humans are the first aliens ever encountered by the Rex.

Nameless is very fond of music, especially 1960s jazz and blues. His voice is a soft tenor

#speculative biology #conlang #alien design #rainmaker #mine #nameless #nishant #science fiction #oc #Rex

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cakeinpants · 15 days

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New alien egg is here! Let's get 40 likes to hatch it!

#sketches #art #alien design #creature art #creature design #alien #spec evo #original species

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simon-roy · 1 month

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An excerpt from the guidebook section of REFUGIUM, the new graphic novel @jordankwalker, Sergey Nazarov, and myself have been slaving over this past year! Jordan was the main xenobiological art director on this project, and his words and pictures are entwined with the core of the tale...

At a week in, our campaign for the hardcover print version of this story is standing at a whopping 175% funded, with over $44k CAD raised and 570 people backing us! If you're interested, head on over to the page for the kickstarter, here:

And if you're keen on it, we're holding an alien design contest for inclusion in the book - make an alien based on the clades outlined above, and post it with the hashtag #refugium2024 before friday, and you're set up to be included in the hardcover printing (and to get a free copy of the book yourself!)

#simon roy #comics #griz grobus #habitat #kickstarter #sciencefiction #speculative biology #scifi #refugium2024 #pinwheel #alien design #artwork #spec bio #refugium #artists on tumblr

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