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Human characters and far too complex backrounds might be a no from me. I may take a while to respond, just leave me a message and I'll get to you when I can. PayPal only
More examples below ↓ and on my blog ↗
One of many...
What I have in mind is dragons having three main classes with Serpents being the oldest and largest. Ancient Dragons is just a specific group of dragons that are veery powerful and terrifying.
Sulefim here was inspired by Fatalis and the concept of heat waves and fires. Basically all Ancient Dragons embody powers of nature or some other concepts and are massive sources of magic.
Unedited art below
I guess you could also call it a biblically accurate angel disease (definitely didn't make it up just to have a reason to draw horrors beyond human comprehension).
Decided to finally explore a fantasy world I've had stuck in my head for years. I'm definitely planning on releasing a lot more lore (and dragons).
Magic in this world is directly connected to everything and has a lot of influence, even in evolution and landscape itself. I want to get more into that topic in the future.
Sorry if it's kinda all over the place
I also still don't have a damn name for this world...
Creature concept:
The Gutripper
Habitat: ships, space stations, cities, seemingly unable to survive in wild
Origins: unknown, possible bioweapon
Notes: Likely a bioweapon with unknown origins, used specifically to wipe out space vessels and important points of interest.
The front is heavily armored for protection while it charges. The rest of the body is covered in an almost transparent skin.
Its main weapon consists of several large barbed tentacles sprouting from behind the head. The nature of their use inspired the name given to the creature.
The front legs also feature a large bladed appendage connected to the elbow. These blades have been observed to primarily be used as a sort of can opener for vehicles and armored foes.
The creature's mouth is large and houses several prehensile barbed tongues, giving it the ability to pull entire bodies into its crushing maw.
Seems to have a very high need for sustenance. It has been observed to go into a hunger frenzy and dying after a few days of starvation. This has likely been done both to maximize its aggression and prevent it from wreaking havoc in the environment.
All members of the species carry 3 - 5 eggs, which they seem to lay in hidden areas to ensure the survivability of the young. These Ripperspawn are infertile and seem to have random mutations connected to their genetic origins.
Other notes: Melee combat highly dangerous, dispatch from range. Weakpoints at the hind legs and behind the head.
Genetic origins traced to 4 planets, further research on high priority - find effective poisons and viruses.
Seems to get on board of vessels via cargo. This has only been found out after a worker found an unopened small coccoon among the regular supplies. The young eat their coccoons right after emerging, leaving no traces. The coccoons themselves are too small to be picked up by scans. Source of origin of these coccoons is yet to be traced.
Conversion
A newly hatched baby Fulgur Anjanath
Arkveld, we already lost, you didn't need to put an exclamation point on it like that. :/
artist tips
don’t save as jpeg
as a former yearbook editor and designer, let me explain this further
if youre only planning on posting your art online, them please save it as .png ;this is also better for transparencies as well
BUT
please, if youre planning of printing your art, NEVER use png. it makes the quality of the image pretty shitty. use jpeg or pdf instead. and always set your work at 300dpi to get a better printing quality - this means, the images are crisper and sharper and theres no slight blurriness. i had a talk with my friend who is currently taking design, and pdf is much better to use when youre working with a bigger publishing company because it still has the layers intact, but if youre only planning on printing your stuff at staples or at some small publishing store, the jpeg is the way to go.
this has been a public service announcement
I’ve replied to this once before but I see it’s doing the rounds again.
This is all utter bullshit.
I’m sorry but if your qualification is working on the school yearbook, you have no qualifications. Do not pretend otherwise. As a former professional photo manipulator for advertising brochures, I can say that you’re not comparing apples to oranges here - if anything, you’re comparing fruit to farmyard machinery:
JPEG is a lossy format. It is suitable for web imagery because it sacrifices detail for reduced file sizes, but in doing so it introduces artifacts that weren’t in the original; if you load a JPEG for editing, then save it as a different JPEG, then you’re adding more artifacts formed from those first artifacts. Do this often enough and you end up with a horrid glitchy mess that looks like a puddle’s reflection after a stone’s been thrown in. You’ve seen those memes that have 3 or 4 different “found at” tags along the bottom, that look like fingerpainted copies of the original? That’s why.
PNG is a lossless format that comes in two primary flavours, PNG-8 and PNG-24, which use 8 and 24 bit colour respectively. 8-bit colour is what you have in GIFs, a limit of just 256 different colours in a predetermined palette, usually automatically chosen by your software when saving. These files will look the same as GIFs, potentially with large patches of solid colour instead of the usual gradual shading seen in 24-bit imagery. This is usually better for small banners or pixel art, as it can yield smaller filesizes than GIF format. (There is an animated version called MNG but it has very little web support, hence the continued use of GIFs.)
PNG-24 is great for larger images where detail is as important as colour depth, as well as printable RGB images and (if supported by the client) full colour images with gradient transparencies. It most certainly does not make “the quality of the image pretty shitty,” as it preserves every nuance. File sizes can be smaller than JPEG for small images, or significantly larger for large images.
PDF is a container file, whatever you put into it will be pretty much preserved as it was, so you gain nothing but lose nothing.
TIFF is what you need to be using for archival or print-quality imagery. It has support for multiple layers, multiple colour channels (RGB as well as CMYK, which is essential for accurate print rendering), and everything is preserved exactly as it was seen on-screen when being composed. There are compressed versions available, they use similar methods to PNG in order to maintain detail without sacrifice; next to whatever your graphics program uses natively, this is the most interchangeable format available for professional use.
DPI is important only when used in combination with image dimensions; in and of itself it serves no purpose. If you make a brilliantly detailed 640x480 image & set it to 300dpi, you’ll receive a brilliantly detailed 2 inch x 1.6 inch print. This is great if you want to make a postage stamp, but not if you’re creating an A4 flyer! Determine the image’s dimension then set the DPI accordingly; 72dpi isn’t hideous especially for text-heavy work (it’s ~3 pixels per millimeter), and 150dpi can be suitable for many images. Unless you’re interested in photo realism, 300dpi is usually overkill - for our hypothetical A4 flyer, you’d need a file of 2490x3510 pixels for edge to edge printing, with a correspondingly high memory requirement and filesize even if using a compressed format.
Keeping the layers intact is utterly unimportant for print work unless you want to use a separated colour print method that requires multiple passes to lay down each ink. If you send a file with all the layers, masks, etc. off for printing you’re liable to get it sent back unactioned, as they won’t want to take responsibility for choosing the wrong elements for printing. Save your work with everything intact, then save a flattened copy especially for printing purposes - this is one of the reasons Save Copy As… is a common option in graphics manipulation software.
This has been a Public Service Rebuttal.
FUCKING THANK YOU
As a designer who’s worked a few years for a newspaper, I cannot begin to tell you how much OP’s post (edit: response, technically) made me cringe. I would have killed to get a photo as a TIFF for once instead of having to tear apart PDFs only to find a 50x100px 72dpi shitty JPEG inside for the 5 millionth time…
JPEG and PNG are best suited for web formats (and it is perfectly fine to save your web version as JPEG, that’s what it’s goddamn for). You will make a designer cry if you send a web-safe JPEG for print, however. And if you have a vectorized logo saved as EPS (or even better, AI), you will make that designer’s year.
Great explanations, here are a few additions:
Save your “master file” in a lossless format, with layers if you used layers. Like, the native format of your program, or TIFF with layers. DO NOT FLATTEN all the layers, you might want to change or extract something later.[*]
Use “Save as” or “Export” or similar to create appropriately altered copies for whatever uses you have in mind. Print needs different files than web view. Find out what size and format the printer wants.
JPG might lose some detail or gain some artifacts compared to 24-bit PNG, but for kittens’ sake, think of people who have a bad connection, or a metered connection, and go for a filesize vs quality tradeoff rather than best quality possible.
[*] I also remember a case of a formerly self-published comic artist running into trouble when working with a publisher, because the artist had flattened their master files completely, but the publisher wanted the lettering separate and as vectors, so again: for printing, find out the printer’s requirements!
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Purple Starling
Purple Staring
Homophobes: *try to destroy rainbow statue*
Gays: “fine then we’ll make it an actual damn rainbow”
Reblog to put indestructible rainbows everywhere and kill a homophobe
Finally finished him. Not the nicest model, but for a first attempt at a more complex character, I'd say I didn't do that bad. (I now need a long break from Blender)
reblogging this with a video example, because the description doesn't do it justice.
absolutely fucking hysterical get vaporized idiot
Anthro version of Espinas, the eepy monster
i can't get over this random dude writing self-insert friend fiction about the ketheric battle
ALSO BALSIN
