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Love these little guys.
Why not. Sharing the old and grumpy dwarf kula from Neal's favorite garden.
It likes to pretend it's intimidating but it still eats anything Neal offers it. Just needs enough personal space.
he calls it Gnome (not in english tho)
he really wants to be friends
The feel of toothless here is so unique. The shark like ridges to reduce drag is such a smart idea. Personally I think the live action redesign could have benefit from concepts like that. Real life elements and adaptations might have aided in grounding the dragons in realism and helped them fit in next to the actors.
All the dragons from the HTTYD stream. Detailed images below.
The designs from the original movie are basically perfect, which is why I didn't really dare to touch them... until a certain trailer dropped recently.
I'm a spiteful creature.
Anyway. Some ground rules. I tried to make these creatures overall a little bit more realistic and grounded without robbing them of the inherent whimsy that the originals had. All of them are tetrapods, so only 4 limbs max.
Nightfury
These guys have no more functional limbs to move on the ground. They are living stealth bombers. Silent fast fliers.
On the ground they flop around similar to seals, forming small colonies on top of tall cliffs.
Red Death
At a certain size it becomes unfeasible to fly for even a dragon. The Red Death stays on the ground using it's heavy armor and enormous size when raiding other dragon nesting colonies. it'as wings are more like spurs, to injure rivals in combat.
Gronkle
The original had a hummingbird style in flying , something that doesn't work for an animal of this size. My compromise is to make the wings rather stout and being able to be folded a lot.
Nadder
Easiest design, take a unfeathered theropod and combine it with a bearded dragon.
Shellfire
This was the last one I made on stream, it is one of the (in my eyes) worst designs from the shows, so a nice challenge to make it work a little better.
This guy is now a filter feeder, using its large horns to funnel water into its mouth.
Zippleback
Multi-headed dragons are really tricky. In my design I made one of the heads a parasitic male, similar to angler fish, that hitches a ride on the back of the larger female.
Monstrous Nightmare
One of the most classic dragons from the original movie. Lots of crocodilian influence here. The osteoderms on its back have pores from which it produces flammable secretions.
Razorwhip
A fast an agile dragon, but the original doesn't really show that in the head shape and all these spines don't help. I put some tapejarid influence into it.
Rumblehorn
The massive neck of this dragon doesn't work well in terms of aerodynamics, unless it's an inflatable display structure ;)
Whispering Death
The giant maw of this dragon is an even greater challenge, but when you give it the gular pouch of a pelican eel and turn these eyes into eye-spots, it works quite well.
And of course the Terrible Terror!
As you can see it's in my case a close relative of the nadder.
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Pssst... something new is coming...
...this weekend!
Free, non-AI animal art references.
Very interesting. I love learning about the separate Birg cultures view on different things. And this one looks so fashionable.
Are there albino birgies?
A complete lack of pigmentation does sometimes occur in Birgs, yes!
Sentiments on complete albinism vary by culture; in kakroum clans, a pure white Birg is thought to occur when a cold draft allows a winter spirit to infect a larva. With a snow-ghost in their blood, they attract other spirits and may be agents of misfortune. Southern clans view them in a more positive light, embracing them as born interpreters of weather omens carried on the wind.
Heartland Twowi find them somewhat less uncanny, as large white patches are already a common phenotype in the region. Folk wisdom based on a centuries old practice of fate reading in spots would suggest that they are blank slates, their futures uncertain because the gods didn’t bother to mark them at all.
this was my favorite drawing from 2022. I re-sketched one of them just to see how far I improve (my sketches are always messy though, so idk if y'all can see the differences jdsksj)
ALSO. this was inspired by his fight compilation that I compiled a while back
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originally posted October 19, 2022
Gourmand wip
Gourmand v1 verses Gourmand v2
His back has texture.
Also don’t mind the buttons on his chest. They are magnets for holding things.
Amazing work!
We are approaching the maximum of images you can post here so I thought it was time I make a little showcase of all the formation pieces we covered so far on the streams.
For people who don't know: for several months now I draw one formation or fossil locality every Saturday. The next place we visit is chosen by a wheel of names, which we also constantly fill up again when a new formation is picked.
I try to make it as interesting as possible in my composition and choice of animals and I can tell you this series has been a great training when it comes to constructing these, how I call them, Menageries.
I have to thank a team of friends and colleagues who help behind the scenes with research, creation of size charts and conversation partners when it comes to deciding on the compositions of these pieces. Their help has been invaluable!
A very alien looking landscape.
Dallol Sulphur Springs, Danakil Depression, Afar Triangle, Ethiopia
Lesly Derksen
Подводные обитатели мангрового леса. Underwater inhabitants of the mangrove forest.
Источник:/yazhevika.ru/priroda/mangrovyy-les-pod-vodoy, //pikabu.ru/tag/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B5%20%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BE/hot,/oclo.ru/mangrovyy-les-pod-vodoy/, /dzen.ru/a/ZqzDdiMaR2FxYlVJ,//fishki.net/4680605-pobediteli-konkursa-mangrove-photography-awards-2024.html,/dzen.ru/a/ Y3CphsYT93qWfxM7?partner_user_id=%5Bobject%20Object%5D, haritonoff.livejournal.com/338963.html.
Fontainebleau State Park, Mandeville, Louisiana by Lana Gramlich
Initiation Well Location: Sintra, Portugal
A pair of wells, called the Initiation Wells, spiral down deep within the earth, like inverted towers. The wells were never used to collect water. Instead, they were part of a mysterious initiation ritual within the Knights of Templar tradition.
Solar Eclipse Shadows
These solar eclipse shadows form due to the distance between the sun and the leaves on the trees. The distance and the proximity of the leaves to one another cause for a "lensing" type effect, making the eclipse shadow clearer to the human eye.
Groot #6 (2015)
written by Jeff Loveness art by Brian Kesinger
Kiki’s Delivery Service is one of those movies that I feel any aspiring artist should see. The struggle of Kiki in this movie is one that ANYONE who wants to further themselves goes through, that transition from taking what you love to do to something that you make a living off of.
As artists we have all been in the place where Kiki is. That place where we can’t draw anything right, can’t paint anything right, can’t sculpt anything right, that place where everything comes out wrong over and over and we begin to question if we’re actually good enough for the talents and skills that used to come to us like second nature when we were just using them for fun. That place where we want to give up because we suddenly can’t ‘fly’ like we want to, because everything seems too difficult to do that.
But that doesn’t mean it isn’t there, just because it isn’t working right then and there when you want it to be. If you can always fly, then it wouldn’t make those times when you did as special. It isn’t necessarily easy to grow up, nor is it necessarily easy to live with the artistic struggle of losing inspiration. But you can’t just throw up your hands and say ‘No, I can’t do it anymore’ because you’ll NEVER fly if you do that.
You gotta wobble before you stand.
Always be clear on the due date, kids. *facepalm*
Can’t wait! This is going to be amazing!
The Kickstarter for 'Other Worlds', my first ever book, is GO!
Filled with art from Subnautica: Below Zero, the Birrin Saga, and decades of my illustration and concept art.
I took no half-measures creating this book.
The Kickstarter link is here!
The Kickstarter for Other Worlds, my first ever book, is launching in about day!
Sign up here :) https://bit.ly/403C70b
Lots of lore and art from the Birrin world, including Pseudoraptors and Sagewings; creatures of the coastal dunes around the Valley of Two-Sky River, and survivors of the Fall.
All of these are so cool!
Tumblr Tuesday: Speculative Species
Did you hear? They've found the golden mole! It still exists! It just took a break from being perceived. What a mood. Here are some other animals that totally exist, too. Just your very normal collection of animal art, really. This is one of those where you'll want to click through on the attributions below the art. For context. For transformation. For taxonomy. It's all there. The level of detail for these friendly animals that definitely exist is quite unhinged in the best way.
@exobiotica:
@villiedoom:
@dokupine:
@extrajigs:
@remotus11:
@yellosnacc:
@steinntroll:
@cathchicken:
@insectghost:
@charseraph:
@tickfleato:
@kattheerat:
@juicyolpickle:
