BioMagneton is an African beetle god. She creates around her a magnetic field so powerful it attacts living matter. When visible she can be seen moving across the open plains in a whirlwind of dust and animals, holding her mighty breasts and laughing.
I was recently asked to add to this awesome creature blog. I love to create creatures and I think that this is a perfect forum for doing that. Some very inspirational work out here and I'm really flattered to have been invited. Anyway, I've been pretty busy and haven't had a lot of spare time so for now I'll post some "oldies" that were conceptualized for Halo Wars but I'm really excited about contributing here, so I promise to have some new images to post in the next week or so. In the meantime, I hope you guys dig...
thanks,
Bart
Based off of "tiny" rough thumbnails, here is one crustacean-like critter that very loosely resemble "Metroids" while the other one is a kind of bipedal water based weevil of sorts, a bit of an elemental. Just playing around with the color on that one and the watery texture and highlights.
An upright Crustacean-like creature based off of hermit crabs. Based on a very quick, small, rough sketch and playing around with a swirl of color found within the exoskeleton. There is also a page worht of creature thumbnails each with a real world animal kept in mind when having designed them.
Until I come up with some new beasts here are a couple of older ones
Medusa was the snake-haired slapper decapitated by Perseus on account of her ability to turn people to stone at a glance.
The Kelpie or Water Horse is a Scottish spirit that hangs around streams and lures travellers to their deaths.
Hey everybody - thanks for the invitation, it's a big honour to share my art with you pro's =D
I'm starting here with Dreamseed Concepts for the postapocalyptic RPG "Engel". The drawings are about one year old but I still like them. I'm a pencil fan!
Here's the latest image I've made for Creature of the Week on Conceptart.org. The topic was "Feeds on Sound."
The complete description that I wrote to accompany the image:
It has been known sense prehistory that sound, especially voice, holds special powers in our world. Indeed, many scholars believe that our ability to manipulate sound at a high level of complexity is what allowed our race, when it was young, to triumph over all other species of animal and attain civilization. Through sound, we not only communicate and use language, but also cast spells, charms, incantations, and make use of any number of other Vocal Powers.
In early days, it was believed that man alone had the use of the Vocal Powers. However, in this new age of science and exploration, it has been discovered that many other creatures have magical abilities, though few are as well-developed in their use of these powers as man. One creature with surprising magic abilities is the Sonagama. Lean, quick-moving reptiles as large as a small man, the Sonagama has developed an ability similar to the magical power known as soundleeching. Using this power, it draws all sound in its environment towards itself, just as a powerful magnet attracts metal objects. Using its fantastically enlarged cheek-flaps, this sound is funneled into its mouth, and through a number of both physiological and magical adaptations this sound is converted is converted into pure energy, and it is this energy on which the Sonagama lives. The creature literally eats sound.
Now, let us discuss the natural history of the Sonagama, as far as our current state of knowledge allows. As mentioned, the Sonagama is a reptile, specifically a lizard related to the agamas, hence its name. It is large, with long, muscular limbs that allow it to both run at great speed as well as rear up on its hind limbs to nearly the hight of a man. Its skull is highly modified, with long quadrate bones allowing it to achieve a terrific gape when opening its mouth--the large the mouth, the better ability to consume sound, apparently. Its enormous cheek flaps--the most remarkable physical characteristic of the species--are supported by highly modified palate and hyoid bones, which swing outward from the jaws to hold the flaps rigid. When the mouth is closed, these bones are folded against the sides of the head and neck, with the cheek flaps hanging like curtains around the throat and shoulders. The cheek flaps themselves serve two functions. Firstly, they assist with funneling sound into the creature's throat, much like our ears funnel sound into the skull. Secondly, they make the creatures seem tremendously larger and more intimidating than they actually are, a useful tactic both for establishing dominance within the species and for frightening away potential predators. The Sonagama shares its habitat with a number of species that have rudimentary Vocal Powers. These creatures seem to be the preferred "prey" of the Sonagama, for magical sound obviously contains more energy than normal sound. However, in a pinch, any form of sound will sustain the Sonagama. When the Sonagama deploys its soundleeching powers, the world around it grows suddenly silent, with even the loudest noises seeming to become muffled and distant. Vocal Powers become useless when in the presence of a Sonagama, for the sound is absorbed before it can have any magical effect. For this reason, tamed Sonagamas have become popular guard animals for those who wish to protect themselves from malicious Vocal attacks.
This is another concept for a friend at work.
Ill be drawing up orthographic views of the creature soon but wont be posting them until his model is done.
Hope you all like it :D
This is a concept done for a friend of mine who is going to model and animate him.
I'll make an update when he is done :)
Sorry for all the mistaken posts here! I think this one actually belongs.
Shaking off too much freelance.
Hello all, firstly it's a great pleasure to rub shoulders with such esteemed folks, so hi and thank you for the oppurtunity to share and learn with you. :)
Bit brain-tired tonight, so a rather meandering hour of doodling led to this. I will be engaging in saturation of reference for a bit because my ideas have got stale and starting to be repetitive and too random most of the time ;-) Got to add some more of the old visual vocab and draw when less tired. :) Still it was a pleasant and maybe theraputic hour of scrawling...
Hello all!
Here's some sketches and doodles of creatures and things.
Here's a guard animal used by the crews on airships. It can cling to sheer surfaces, and it horks stuff out of its exposed trachea.
Done for the Iron Grip series of games from Isotx
Because of the DEEP activities at Conceptart.org, and other events, most of my recent creatures have been aquatic.
These little fishies are the only creatures that I actually painted specifically for DEEP. The aim of the activity was to come up with ideas for creatures that could exist in some future underwater utopia. So these creatures are called jewel fish, and function somewhat like living jewelry. They are purchased as eggs and raised from birth to see their owners as the only source of food, so they will always be following their owners. In the same fashion that people in our world use makeup, jewelry, or fancy clothes to improve their appearance, people in the DEEP world use small, personal schools of attractive fish. Particularly rare and beautiful breeds of jewel fish are highly sought after.
This painting was a birthday present for my dad. I often make shark-themed art for him as gifts. The basic concept for this is that, in the future, a tremendous catastrophe has wiped out almost all life on land, making it free for recolonization. Whereas the land vertebrates that we know today are all descended from lobe-fined bony fish related to the modern lungfish and coelocanth, in this speculative future land life is descended from the other great clade of fish, the Chondrichthyes (sharks, rays, and chimeras). I'm not sure how likely such an evolutionary scenario would be; among other things, these fish would likely have to evolve true bony skeletons, as their cartilagenous skeletons probably wouldn't support their weight on land. But anyway, it's fun to imagine.
Most creatures that I design are vertebrates. So, I decided to practice creating some invertebrate creature designs. The above shrimp-thing is the result.
I also completed that cave troll sculpture that I posted a while back. This sculpture was one of the funnest art projects I've ever done, if simply for the sheer amount of different techniques and processes that I got to try out while making it. I got to sculpt with wax, create plaster molds, pour molten bronze, chip and grind away imperfections in the resulting bronze, sand blast the bronze sculpture, and colorize it by applying patinas (many patinas have to be applied at high temperatures, so I got to use a torch as well). Very fun and rewarding project.
I'm moving to Louisiana this week. This guy will be my protector from all ill-will. Although he does not have thumbs to help me carry boxes, he can stab people in the face... Pretty helpful in the right type of situations!
Here's some bits and pieces that I've done recently.
I hope you guys and girls will like it!
The Greater Crusty Lantaur is a boar and swine hunter, it measures in at 800lb and it's swaying walk pounds the ground into submission. Besides the large footmarks in the ground, The Greated Crusted Lantaur can easily be tracked by the grinding marks they leave on cave walls as they try to clean their hard shelled bodies.
