just having some fun!

Creature in pants! hot damn!

This piece actually started off as a visual i had in my mind of a giant plant monster with fungus eyes. I took the visual from the piece and played around with new textures and this creature basically found itself.

I had a TON of fun with this creature! Hope it's received well!

Slug Golem

Oozey Icky Monster! This was fun. :)

A brief clutch of new creatures.

Unfortunately I can't show almost all of my latest work yet until their respective things are released. Hopefully a new creature soon.
In the mean time here's a few more from the site:

SCRIVENER

Invaluable to the theurgical community, the scriveners rotate their pelvises to give each pair of legs resting time during their relentless task of producing the reams of glyphs and charted incantations demanded of them.

WERECORDOBA

Bred and infected from an extinct chain of Argentinean pit dogs for the purpose of killing encroaching werewolves in an urban environment.
The plastic milk jug holds water that he can guzzle as his metabolism is so accelerated (he sweats profusely and pants simultaneously) that he constantly needs to rehydrate and eat.
The baseball bat has sharp strips of jeweler's silver hammered into it with wire wrapping around to prevent the bat from splitting. This tool is specifically used on werewolves.

SLEIPNIR

Long ago the god Loki, in the form of a white mare and impregnated by the horse Svadilfari, gave birth to Sleipnir the eight-legged. When Loki reverted to his natural form he gave Sleipnir to the god Odin, announcing that the steed could carry his rider swifter than any horse, by land, sea or air and had the power to enter the land of the dead and return.

Key Features:

The tail is not bobbed, but tied up on itself to prevent it being used as a handhold in battle.

Heavy iron shod shoes for dashing the heads of ice giants.

Runes instill the steed with protections from ice giants and the grasping hands of the dead.

The six legs at Sleipnir's front can lay down a vicious barrage of Levades during an airs above the ground Mezair maneuver.

First creature on new PC :)

I need to get my Painter X all set up again with textures and brushes. I'm still missing some of the feel i liked before, but maybe i just need to get accustom to new feel. Could be better for my work, who knows!

Anyways, the design for this creature was meant to be a level 1 rpg character. Something that could do damage, but wasn't threatening enough for a character to worry about picking a fit.

SHINY NEW FAMILY

Acrylic on Foamcore • 2o"x3o"

Spore Creature Redesign

This is a design that Mike Corriero came up with in the Spore Creator Creator. Mike and I traded the idea of doing a piece from one of each other's spore creature. I hope he has one for me in the future :)

Space Meat

A speed concept of an alien food source, used and reproduced much like our cattle here on earth.

Stan Winston Rest in Peace

I'm sure many of you already know this, but one of(if not the) greatest creature designers for film died this week.

Stan Winston was a marvelous man, and I'm sure I speak for all the artists featured on this site when i say; His work will be dearly missed as it has inspired all of us. No single man will ever fill his shoes.

- creature artists.

THE BAD IDEA

Just a painting with a crunchy beast. Thought you folk might enjoy on account of his articulated masticating horn-claw thingies. :P

Humanoid Body Structure Variations

Some rough thumbnails to show variations of body structures considered to be humanoid.

Inspired by The Mist

Heavily influenced and inspired by Stephen King's "The Mist". This was based off of the four winged creature but just drawn from memory while changing the design of the face/beak. I just love how they took such simple things as tentacles, insects (spiders, flies) and birds and produced quite unique and interesting concepts.

Fisherman,,fisherman..... no clue what to call the fisherman

I'm Gustav Dore's love child

No name still... Another illustration for Greek-Rain

"wolf fish"

Still unnamed Hammerhead sentry/watchguard

I'm still looking for a name of this species, help me out guys!

Lephauntis & Creblock

2 new creatures, Creblock and Lephauntis.
The Lephauntis name came from a drunken conversation on an art chat room some time ago, when the topic of elephants came about ;) I liked the name and it eventually came in handy.

©heers!!

Some Photoshoppery from me. My timid toying with basic texture brushes seems to be paying off. Incidentally, the butt nubs are weird hip joint things that perform the same function as human ass cheeks do for sitting. :P

Rock Jaw

A giant....
Based off of one of the previous humanoid thumbnails I had posted earlier in this blog.

Crustaci

Playing around with the concept of mixing birds and insects. I had done a few pages of creature thumbnails that were predonimately Insect based with elements of bird features and then dominate Bird thumbnail concepts with some insect based elements.

Digital Sketches

A few rough digital sketches of various creatures. Mostly naturalistic designs, in keeping with existing life forms. Invertebrate, Vertebrate, Insect, Reptile, Amphibian, Bird, Mammals..

This is another shark-man concept, i need to figure out a better name than "shark-man". In the "world", I've set up for them in my head, they were created by Poseidon to rival the god's favor of man. So many something like Poseidonites... shortened to Sednites? Sedens?

Greek-Rain

Im starting a design project where Fish evolve into mammals and take over greece.

Here is one of the generals:

THE LORIO DRAGON

15" x 2o" Acrylic on Board.

A rather decorative mechanical creature to freshen up the ol' blog...

Predator of Predators

Piece created for an art challenge on Http://www.conceptart.org/forums
The topic was "Predator Predator". I decided I wouldn't take the easy route of a big creature that overpowered other big creatures, and developed a creature that evolved specifically luring in predators.

Tophat Sasquatch + Water Golem`

Tophat Sasquatch is for a video game design, I'm going to be doing with some friends.


The Water Golem was a challenge by some fellow friends to do a golem within an hour and a half, I picked "water" as the element since i've too often done Rock/Lava styled golems.

Don't call it a soul patch

Photoshop.

First post

Hey everybody.

Cave Troll Sculpt

I'm taking a figure sculpture class at school. Yesterday, my normal human sculpture inexplicably transformed into this limp-haired, long-nosed, three-fingered apparition you see here. I believe he's some sort of cave troll, or possibly a tall goblin or a thin orc. I'm uncertain of my demihuman classification. Anyway, he seems fairly harmless, just not very sociable.

Wax sculpture, 6-8 inches in height. I made the base he's sitting on by taking a sheet of wax and using a soldering iron to melt other pieces of wax all over it, and then using the iron to give the base ragged edges, holes, etc. This whole sculpt has been very fun to make, and there's still work to be done on him (such as casting him into bronze).