#fictional creature

[mxshrimp-art]

look at her :3

[oculsss]

(rtts fan sophonts)

i redesigned arachns hands

The first one used for climbing on thick web or prey's skin

The second one used for grabbing small objects and small motorics

[felidaegallery]

[vareshkalol]

Like to think about creature designs (actually my oc)

[internetgiraffekid1673]

Welp! You all asked for it!

So I was doing some art studies and remembered something interesting! For as horrifying as their bodies and movement are to many people, it’s really difficult to make a spider face look menacing. Their mandibles are freaky, sure, but their eyes are always very cute and round and shiny.

(These are all real spiders btw, that guy in the bottom right is a clown spider, look him up he’s crazy cool and almost certainly the inspiration for pennywise).

Meanwhile, butterflies are considered an “acceptable” bug to many. Their pretty wing patterns and small legs and faces make them appealing to many people who hate most other bugs. The thing is, when you get a closeup of their teeny tiny faces, it’s actually just as inhuman and creepy as most other insects.

(Fun fact, I actually am an exception to the “butterflies are an acceptable bug” rule. I’ll let a little spider or harmless black ants crawl on me all day long but butterflies’ erratic flight patterns and their habits of swarming water sources just freak me out).

Anyway, I decided to take the least appealing traits of both these critters, along with some deep sea creature traits for flavor and throw them together into a beautiful abomination :) :) :)

Behold my baby! Deep sea creature traits include a mollusk beak in the same place mollusks have them, a long nose with fangs inspired by daggertooth fish and sea slug eye stalks and fronds. Give me suggestions on what to call my lovely little beast in the notes!

[burntcrumpets]

drawing of an ambler i did for a majors assignment!! pretty happy w how it turned out ngl

species stuff under tha cut

transcript bc my handwriting is shit:

ambler

7'-8' tall

giant, slow-moving photovores with a characteristic divot that collects rainwater and serves as a small mobile pond for other creatures. harming an ambler is considered taboo in the Glade. mostly found in moss grotto and the outer woods.

some other stuff i didnt write down there:

- amblers dont rest often but when they do its for a period of months, half embedded in the ground in a state kind of like torpor

- when sleeping theyre often mistaken for just another part of the landscape

- over time an ambler's pond develops its own miniature ecosystem

- young amblers who havent developed their ecosystem yet are called birdbaths, since theyre often birdbath sized and dont have other plantlife and whatnot on them

- ambler's "fur" is mosslike and is a good host of climbing plants like ivy, and some creeping plants like phlox

- marsh plants often take up residence in/around amblers' ponds

[vaqdotzip]

meet flistle and wotter!

[yourlocalxiaosimp]

So I just came up with a species of lil guys called Beanbos

they’re basically just beans with eyes and limbs. they can be any color, length, width, and roundish shape you want; the only requirement is that they have exactly four limbs and two eyes at all times, no matter what angle you draw them from :3

(edit: I just realized I forgot a limb on one of the beanbos lmao)