Cube of Annihilation

Mostly images that inspire me for gaming. Also weird or beautiful art I find and sometimes amazing nature stuff. None of this is mine, it's all reblogs.

[donutdrawsthings]

I was thinking of a pride art challenge people could do with their OCs, because I thought it'd be cute! A queer/trans artist with their creations.

but then I realised that same challenge would be infinitely more funny with folks who have atypical or horror OCs

[sunset-sunbun]

@otiksimr

you and your beasts.

[otiksimr]

me and my beasts.

[garnetgoddess]

@cinemamind

[cinemamind]

[itsmissing]

design comm for a "cambrian explosion wizard"

[itsmissing]

[yoroxon]

Nuclear bomb devil

[ether--net]

[tastysemochka]

[oc] updating the compilation :)

[arborix]

playing around with colors and shading 🤔

sketch and stuff under cut!

initial sketch, lines, before shading, and after shading but before recoloring all the shading layers

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Tragnal Kos by Ismail Inceoglu

[abberantmachine]

I guess we can post our @homebodieszine pieces?

I couldn't tell you if this thing was a blast or a nightmare, a bit of both HAHA - I'm incredibly relieved to have finished it in time, it took the better part of two months and my fears about wrapping it up in time made it so I could only fit in one submission... but I think it was worth it

(some close-ups!)

as a bonus, you can have some WIPs!

[frankiesmileshow]

Amazing artwork from the Look Outside zine, Homebodies!

[gebo4482]

米山 啓介 / Keisuke Yoneyama

[cinemamind]

Pleasant

[charnel-grounds]

Kris Kuksi - Bone Spider

cover art for Alyssa Sturgill’s ‘Spider Pie’, 2005

source

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Arpista by Luis Arturo Arzate Velasco

[cinemamind]

𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘴 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘢 of the order 𝘋𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘴. 

The common Archangel. 

 Humans from the neighboring villages pay tribute to the newly born Cherubs in the form of rye bread and simple cornmeals.

Cherubs stay in their infant stage for over 50 years and need constant attention before reaching adulthood. Their songs are said to be beautiful and differ for each listener.

Angels huddle with their brood under a halo nest adorned with the branches of the most sacred cemetery trees.

Brood parasitism occurs amongst different angel species, particularly from the Genus Bypochtbonia. The angel will snatch the cherub and replace it with a near identical offspring. The angel parents will then raise the parasite baby, unaware of the exchange.

Cherub parasites give out an incessant wail known as the ‘song of flesh,’ persistently demanding human souls to feed upon. Their fits of hunger are insatiable and the angel parents have no choice but to accommodate the parasite to the point of bursting.

Once the stomach lining of the cherub infant bursts, it leaves the nest to hunt for more human souls. Over time, a new intestinal system grows, along with a feathered wingspan to help it glide short distances.

 Archangels build large circular structures embedded with reflective glasses and crystals to ward off predators from their territory. 

 Most ‘ophanim arcs’ are built meticulously from dead trees and woven with vines. The arcs cause a feeling of unease in most life forms.

[theveryworstthing]

Dragons?

goblins were not immune from the medieval humanoid urge to call anything too weird to be immediately categorized a dragon. here we have a selection of beings you'd find populating the illuminated manuscripts of older tomes as they are, and not as they're depicted after being seen once and passed from village to village via wandering storytellers. they are:

1: a Riven- not a dragon. these rarely seen beings are roughly described as a mix between selkies, mammalian mermaids, and water spirits. deep in the supernatural category of mythological sea creatures, but not quite incomprehensible horror tier. like, they're spooky, but fully comprehensible.

2: a Fairy Wring- actually a dragon. these smaller dragons resemble either haphazard mushroom clusters or jellyfish depending on who you ask, but they're closer to cephalopods. they freely show other sapient creatures their hoards because they don't care about bits getting stolen. you probably won't be able to get away from wherever they spirit you away to without their help, and besides, everything ends up back in the sea eventually. even you. they just have to wait :)

3: a Silky Hydra- not a dragon. it's contested on whether it's even a true hydra. when a head is severed from the main body it seemingly awakens from death with its own fresh consciousness and sprouts a new body, which is closer to reproduction than a splitting limb. heads still attached to the main body think and move as one creature, but the "hatched" heads clearly act like separate individuals and are carried back to the Silky Hydra's nest to grow until their new bodies are big enough to set out on their own. the damaged neck stumps close quickly, and new head buds develop within a few weeks.

4: a Dryvern- actually a dragon. much like Rivens, they're rare and more on the supernatural side. despite having no wings and an abstract body plan, they are commonly found in places they should only be able to get to by flying, surrounded by vegetation thriving in strange, unsuitable conditions.

5: a Lapidrairy- unknown. often found in the abandoned hoards of dead dragons looking for...something. other dragons stay away from them, looking away and going still if one comes near. they will not say why.

6: a Fulgrace- actually a dragon. these flying serpents appear during storms, causing strange lightning phenomena. they relish in being struck by lightning because it removes harmful parasites, and the excess energy is stored in their ever growing antler-like sensory organs for future use. they communicate through crackles, pops, and deep electrical hums that are clearly understood by other sapient beings no matter their language. the sound doesn't actually matter, it's just the audio result of them messing with the electric signals in your brain to make you perceive whatever they mean.

7: a Queendrake- depends on who you ask. these are the adult forms of a specific kind of mandrake root that emerges from the ground every hundred years in one large haunting chorus. researchers fight over whether these mysterious entities are dragons, dryads, or the result of cicadas evolving really really weirdly. no one has a solid answer because Queendrake are far more concerned with carrying out whatever business they have to attend to before they burrow back into the earth than explaining their biological quirks. dwarven and dwarven adjacent communities see them as minor deities, referring to them as Goddess Veins.

8: a Glass Dragon- actually a dragon. not actually made of glass. their strangely flexible exoskeleton feels like something that could be glass but it's much more durable. they're mostly called glass dragons because of their ability to modify their bodies into a vast variety of shapes and colors by either creating or finding furnace nests every year. these are used to soften and shape their new growth. Glass Dragons with access to a furnace can survive just fine for a while, but eventually their hides might start to crack as layers grow over stress points and internal organs might even become too large for ill-shaped cavities. personality wise, they are mischievous and creative creatures who like to befriend artisans. which just means they WILL find their way into your workshop so that they can plop down and watch your process. they say that this is a Muse Service and definitely not them adding to their mental technique hoard while freeloading.

[theveryworstthing]

Winged Prophets.

a selection of mothmen. some deliver their warnings more gently than others.

[salt-angels]

hiii I'd love to get more eyes to my personal project Carcosa (inspired by the king in yellow)

[gnarlyghost]

Dust Devil