Creature-a-Day

Or most days anyway. M/W/F? Look, this is just a hobby.

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#19 The Snare was created by scientists to see whether they could make a slow hare or a fast snail. They did not expect that what they actually would create was a MONSTER.

I got some new watercolor brushes for Procreate and I’ve been having fun playing with them. Expect to see more of this in the future lol

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#18 Prongnose Harefish, the fastest fish in the ocean, charges and stuns it’s prey with it’s signature nose.

Mashup of a Pronghorn antelope, Hare, and of course Sailfish

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#17 Molebee colonies are made up of mostly related females. One of the many sisters will breed while the rest protect and care for the young and their home.

This one feels especially cursed. Mashup of a naked molerat and a bee. I might see naked molerats in my nightmares now.

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#16 Lovers Gibbolf mate for life, people travel from all over the world to hear them sing to each other.

Mashup of grey wolf, gibbon, and lovebird

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#15 Goblin Snake, field vermin capable of eating grains, mice, and anything else it can fit in it’s mouth

Mashup of a black rat snake and a field mouse

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#14 Dalraffe, the friendliest creature on the Savannah

Mashup of a dalmation and a giraffe

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#13 Dall Squirrel, terror of the alpine mountains

Mashup of a red squirrel and dall sheep, with a teensy bit of musk ox mixed in.

It’s been a while! I burned myself out a bit, but here I am again with creature mashups. Currently I’m trying to add backgrounds to my pictures, since that’s what I really want to practice with.

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Okay so I burnt out a bit and took a break. But now I’m feeling the groove again. In the mean time, I got bored and added some simple colors to some of these guys.

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#11 Skyena

Back on it after a couple personal projects. Unsure about this one. Seems like it would have a hard time getting around. Probably would work better with hooves in the back and fingers in the front? I imagine this poor fella falls down on his face a lot.

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#10 Narni

Originally this guy had mouse forelegs, but they just didn’t fit so I changed them. I wonder is these are the size or elephants, lions, or hares? My biological knowledge isn’t good enough to judge how likely it would be for something like this to survive in the wild. I like to imagine it anyway though, because that world would be nuts.

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#9 Fire-Bellied Rhinard

This one is admittedly not my favorite, and I think it shows. I was tired and feeling uninspired, so this one isn’t as well thought out as some of the others. Actually, this was originally just going to be a mashup between a Fire-Bellied Toad and a Leopard. But after sketching it out it appeared so boring (a fuzzy toad) that I threw in the rhino beetle just so I could have something more interesting to do.

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#8 Ferrepillar?

This one is a commission done for Breezy from Discord. They asked for a ferret centaur, where both halves are actually ferret, to be used in some kind of custom fantasy setting. To me it sounded more like a ferret caterpillar, so, here we are.

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#7 Hellem

Generator prompt gone horribly wrong. This guy is pretty creepy if I do say so myself. No eyes or ears, senses by “smelling” the water (or other alien fluid?) with its whiskers. It has legs, so amphibious? They look pretty useless though, so perhaps they’re vestigial. Remnants of a bygone day when they used to live on land.

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#6 Turkey Monitor

Back to straight mashups. I hate drawing feathers, but the turkey has so many interesting variations I wanted to give it a shot. I imagine this guy walks pretty badly, probably waddles a bit with the wings flapping to keep balance. Better to fly, I think.

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#5 Goblin Serpent

This one is actually old, but my wrist is sore today and I’m guessing you’re not suffering from lack of timelapse. Instead you get a bunch of head idea sketches. Also, this proves I can indeed color, I just don’t want to. Nyeh.

I had actually planned to make this into a dragon for the web game Dragon Cave where you breed and hatch cute little pixel dragons. I did in fact make a pretty good (if I do say so myself) pixel version of the guy on the left. But alas, I don’t play anymore and last I checked they aren’t allowing new submissions anyway.

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#4 Lestur

This one started out as a creature from https://www.rangen.co.uk/world/speciesgen.php but as you can see from the timelapse it gave me a lot of trouble. In the end I went off the rails a bit (as I am wont to do) and here we are.

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#3 Wrunur

I found this cool species generator https://www.rangen.co.uk/world/speciesgen.php

So expect more creatures from there, though I may not always add in the neat little species facts (unless someone tells me I MUST because it adds LIFE to the creatures or something). I did this time because it conveniently fit inside the little 4x6 canvases I use for this.