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).

Beladron - Concept Dinosaur

A conceptual Dinosuar. Completely Imaginary not really resembling any 1 dinosaur since I didn't really look at dinosaur references but rather more modern reptiles and mammal anatomy. I also tried to work out the skeletal structure.

Manipulation

As a part of a creature tutorial series, this was a manipulation on the anatomy of a water buffalo. The original body was varied slightly but the majority of the changes were made to the head. It was an act to show how changing various portions of existing animals anatomy could easily create a creature concept.

Quaddlebutt

Wanted to do something "cuter".

Introduction

Hi, everyone. First, I want to thank Mike Corriero and Davi Blight for inviting me to join this blog. You're all artists that I respect and admire, and I'm honored to be included here.

Anyway, I'm Cory Trego-Erdner, known on the internetz as Moai. I'm a student (graduating with an AA this year), I have a humble job (cashier at a dollar store), and I have aspirations of becoming a concept artist. When I'm not drawing, I'm observing. I have a few personal projects that I want to get started soon that will involve plenty of creature design, but until then here's some older creature work of mine.

Shallow Swamp Loofeesh

A creature with amphibian, bird and fish anatomy. This concept was produced from a simple 20 second Imaginary "creature sound" file.

Introduction

Hi everyone,

I'm currently a freelance artist running around working on several different tasks at the moment.

Here's a few creature designs to get an initial idea of my work:

PRIPYAT BEAST

When the secondary explosion occurred at the reactor, spewing an almost immeasurable torrent of radioactivity into the jet stream, surrounding locales could only survive long enough to form mass graves for their dead. The under supplied, unprotected and ultimately doomed clean up crews sent their overseeing emergency committee a flurry of distress signals and sporadic reports of beasts emerging from the piles of bodies on the outskirts of towns. These beasts were said to vary dramatically, and appeared to be sickening amalgamations of people and livestock.

MANUALLY ASSISTED SEA CYBORG

Cetaceans have long been used by military outfits, trained for marine mine clearance, reconnaissance, and even attack roles. However their willful, individualistic personalities caused severe problems. Escapees were common, which represented an extremely expensive loss in both resources and time, for their trainers. The J8 program solved this issue with heavily genetically modified Belugas featuring post-growth expansive mechanical grafting which fitted them to be overseen by a human pilot.

BROOD MERMAID

An exemplary member of a Piscine Magistrate's sub-harem; a collection of fertile females used for the sowing of seed as opposed to serving a directly pleasurable role in the prima harem. A swarm of eels harass the brood mermaid in her later stages, eager to snatch up freshly hatched young. These swarms are encouraged by most Magistrates as they consider it an excellent measure for thinning the weak offspring; immediately setting the stage for a strong and culled lineage. Brood mermaids are often given as donativum profundi, "imperial largess of the abyss", to honoured guests, as the reciprocated offering of offspring is considered an assumed display of trust in important dealings amongst piscines of high standing.

Giants & Humanoids

I'll be turning a few of these into finals but here are some thumbnail ideas, some mixed digital and pencil and others just straight digital sketches. Playing around with hulking and ogre-like body proportions on some of them.

MY FIRST CREATURE THUMBS

I was inspired by Mike Corriero's silhouette-thumbnails to do some of my own, and am totally sold on the process now. I don't understand how I never did this before, and now I am much too excited about it.

Wavering Stiffle Stump

edit: The thumbnails that were produced befor the final design was created by mixing the anatomy of numbers 01 and 02.

A forest giant that moves with a swaying motion, most of its upper body is covered by tree tops leaving the legs and hands to blend in with the surrounding tree trunks. They are Giant stilt stalkers that very much like a chameleon lizard use the camouflage effect and movement to grab much smaller prey.

Here's a reimagining I did of John Carpenter's The Thing. Hope you enjoy!

THREATENED ALIEN

"THE BIRTHDAY GUEST"

So... Hey everyone! All the work here is great, and I'm happy to be in the midst of you guys and all this excellent fun.

Here's one from me. It's Airbrushed Acrylic on Board, 2o"x3o".
Cheers! - Wm.

Mountain Ogre

The Mountain Ogre slowly establishes himself in the world of man, yet retains his knowledge of building natural armor instead of harvesting the metals and fabrics made by man. His intelligence is inferior to man's, yet he feels they are fools as they destroy the world around them to build wood boxes where stone caves would do them just fine.

The Ogre is drawn out from his solitary lifestyle by the vile smell of cooked meat and the noisey banging of tribal drums-- An annoyed ogre brings destructive results.

Hydro-Deflux .1.1.1 - Mission

There is quite a back story to this design, but I'll just lay out the basic synopsis. This creature was brought back in hopes to introduce a new species to earth, but the reproduction cycle was vastly misunderstood. The egg larvae once hatched release a toxic fungi that kill all plant, tree and vegetation life which ultimately through mankind into the loop for extinction by killing our only source of oxygen.

Troll Warrior

Hypo Capriate

The Hypo Capriate Species are small and excessively excited and nervous. Because of their small size they have a quick heart beat and their nervous system works in overtime, their constantly on alert mode running all over the place, left right, side to side, circles, up hill, down hill..they even try to run up trees some times though they often just fall and start running again haha.Hypo Capriates use a unique quadruped/biped skeletal and muscular system that allows them to produce a very long stride for such a small creature. When they do slow down which isn't that often, only in times of sleep which is done standing up and only for 5 minutes twice a day, they stand on their two legs and the arms stretch in a backward state. They are vegetarians though they chase and eat their food as if it were alive because they don't like to sit around in one spot for too long. So they will run by and snatch a piece of a leaf and chew it on the GO...They shit while running and they copulate with the male on the larger females back while she runs at an accelerated speed which works up the hormones. This is a sort of foreplay for the Hypo Capriates, they are hyperactive both day and night which helps keep their species alive even though they are small harmless critters that would ordinarily be prone to attack by most predators. - Updated Image on (Top)

Entry by Mike Corriero

A morning painting

Hello People,

This is my first post here on this blog and i guess an introduction is in order.
I'm an concept artist at Creative Assembly/SEGA and i've been working in the industry for a few years now.
I've been published in many magazines and books, genres ranging from Game design to sketchbooks and philosophy of art.

But most of all i love the act of creating.

So here's a few creatures i've created to properly introduce "me"

Teradock

Teradock's use the element of surprise to attack their prey. They have long feathered tails that mimic the high grass they conceal themselves in when sneaking up on the smaller Swamflaps. These creatures have a massive jaw backed by a terrifying toothed beak to snatch their prey and snap it's jaws tight. Once these jaws are shut it's practically impossible to open them with a staggering 15,000 lbs of pressure.
The Teradock is quick at short burst of speed giving them the upper hand once they break the element of surprise and leap out after the Swamflaps and other prey. Swamflaps are plump and juicy and often slow at taking flight so they are an ideal food source for the Teradock's. Standing at around 4.5 ft at the back they usually stick to prey no larger than their mouth can hold because they do not chew their food, they will snap at the body with one fell swoop and swallow chunks whole.


Entry by Mike Corriero

King of the Hill

Entry by Davi Blight

Old School

Entry by Davi Blight

Samarium Dragon

An Elemental Dragon design, Samarium is a rare earth metal. It can be found on the periodic table; Element #62 which is actually quite an interesting piece of material. I updated this version with some birds for scale, tightened and repositioned the foreground and adjusted the smoke.

Entry by Mike Corriero

Nemean lion

Entry by Davi Blight