Creature Inspiration

Inspiration Blog of Dino-Spine/Ardent-Wolfgang. Collection of art, images, and ideas to inspire me for my own personal designs, character development, creatures and world building.

[ikrutt]

Kalamu, 2026

This thing is old enough to have a cosmo at an American lounge now. I'm reviving her so she can join the fray in this year's Art Fight. See you in the trenches!

[neap]

shy

[filurig]

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End of the first update!! hope you enjoy it so far! as i've mentioned before for the time being, pareidolia will update every friday.

as you can see tbh this is less of a traditional webcomic format and more of a graphic novel situation. the prose is written the way it is kind of intentionally, you'll see how things proceed, hehe.

[pmamtraveller]

Fish-shaped interlocking paving stones.

[courtesycalling]

Happy mušḫuššu monday everybody

(Photo credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

[toadlett]

Using @alpacascribbles 's lovely Kaijune list to make some creepy crawlies this month! The first is this friendly guy, "Loamy Ancient Guardian."

[toadlett]

Using @alpacascribbles 's lovely Kaijune list to make some creepy crawlies this month! The first is this friendly guy, "Loamy Ancient Guardian."

[everestseal]

ref sheet commission for unitybirb!

[elf-friendly]

The Gardener

[roots-of-aurogir]

booty spots

I almost gave up on her pink colors but I gave it one more try

[stonedrunkwizard]

Another week's worth of bird people.

[avpol]

bird and wolf

[leaves-and-inks]

[ID: digital illustration of a concavenator in an unnatural pose with a vibrant color scheme, floating over a dark blue square on an off-white background. the front of its body and head are facing the bottom right corner. It looks up in profile view, its mouth opened. one arm, covered in fluff snd quilled feathers, is raised out from its side, tge other, mostly blocked by a fluffy upper body, has irs hand visible. One leg is bunched up and back behind it, while for the other, only ila partially outstretched foof is visible. its tail bends up, running parents to the rectangle for a moment before zig zagging back down towards its face. it also has quills along it hump and tip of its tail. In the bottom left corner is a watermark reading: “LEAVES AND INKS”. /end ID]

Concavenator

[sh4vk4]

hunting season

[jagalart]

My recent trip to Polish/Czech mountains reminded me of working on this series of illustrations for the Carved in Stone book 🖤 while our countries are far away, all the beautiful heathers, ferns and mossy rocks reminded me of making the reasearch for these! I'm still so, so happy and thankful I had a chance to work on them.

No better time to share some more snippets of these then. 🖤 The book is still available if you'd like to experience the whole thing!

[acorviart]

june's sticker club reward

[dominiqueramseyart]

Mongoose