#segiants

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Here is an advance of the first extraterrestrial that I made for the separate size chart dedicated only to the aliens, the first of all being the very known Arrowtongue From Barlowe's Expedition, together with the Mutated Cow, the biggest living animal on earth on the future being the last megafauna animal existing at that time, totally screwed by decades of constant pollution.

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I was a little curious when I was doing the Posthumans of Man After Man of scale up those beings that appear in the last part of the book on 5 million years hence, those creatures created genetically by the travelers of the stars after Xenoforming the earth, the Engineered Pack Animal and Food Creature, as they both seems to be quite massive. In this case I tried to portray the length of the Star traveler with its riding creature, basing for the size of the original woodland dweller, or assuming its head would be similar or bigger that a human one, in each case was irrelevant as the size slightly affects the final result as the bigger it was the bigger would be their creations. At the end I went with the smaller size, which give me an Pack Animal of 6 or 7 meters tall and the Food Creature of around 25 to 30 meters tall, massive mountains of flesh being harvested by small ant looking Travelers. In the end I did not add them to the chart, although I found funny and interesting about scale them up

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I must say before anything else that the estimations done here for the posthumans from the book are based on quite speculative elements and deduction, so just take it as a possible approximation of what it could be their length, and not their actual canonical measurements... Well, I spent these last weeks trying to find a way to obtain the size measurements for the post-human of Man After Man by Dougal Dixon, the last book of the spec evo trilogy from which I could not get something with the descriptions because the focus of the texts were more focused on the situations and lives of the creatures and was less technical and informative in comparison to the other 2 books, focusing more on narrative history rather than a field guide. As a start a while ago I did an attempt to scale some of those posthumans, assuming some would possess human parts (faces, arms, legs, skeletons) that would be proportional in size to the original human beings from which they were derived, but this base couldn't work for the rest of the species of the book looking the variations of anatomy are far from the original Homo sapiens form. Then I move on the second option, in this case scale up the posthuman based on elements or objects that interact with them that I could potentially scale and thus have something to base the rest, of course it is not so simple because of the art style and the proportions of the environment around. The image that really gave me a great help was a specific one of a Woodland Dweller hunting a duck in the tundra, this would be the initial piece as scaling up the duck (which is around 30 to 50 cm in length) I obtained the first measurement, I could eventually scale up a bunch more of posthumans based on other images that the woodland dweller share, as well using more elements on other pictures apart, but of course I didn't scale them all, just a few selected species due to this being part of a size chart for the biggest organisms, not all the organisms. Aquamorph (Homo aquaticus): Inferred its length based on the length of its arms, considering that it is the only part of its body that is not derived in comparison to its head or legs. Vacuumorph (Homo caelestis): their skeleton is basically a "normal" human skeleton encapsulated in a sphere, so... Woodland Dweller (Homo glacis fabricatus): As I've explained early, I got their size from the duck in the tundra hunting scene, in an upright posture this can reach a height of 1.2 to 1.4 meters so it is not so small, just its quadruped posture shrinks it a little, reaching something like a lynx. Tropical Tree Dweller (Homo silvis fabricatus): to have an approximate length I used the butterflies that are around, specifically a close up sketch of it holding one, being a kind of swallowtail butterfly which although is not specified the species these often have a wingspan of 10 cm. Plains Dweller (Homo campis fabricatus): based on grass size its holding, very very speculative estimation as I didn't get the species of grass its holding and eating, but just an approach from similar grass. Tundra Dweller (Homo glacis fabricatus): I think that the majority who have seen them imagined a behemoth of almost 3 meters high, however comparing it with the woodland dweller (specially their descendant, the Symbionts), I managed to obtain a height not greater than two meters. Note: I also scale up with the famous "Season greetings" hunting picture too, of what I've got was a smaller Tundra dweller which fits with the description of being a "young individual" being killed. Aquatic (Piscanthropus submarinus): there is a picture of one encased on the beach, sharing a scene with a woodland dweller so excluding angle and the distance of both I got the measure there, it is smaller than the aquamorph but it is because it is much more derived than the frog's huge legged predecessor. Slothmen (Giganthropus arbrofagus): This is one of the few species whose size is specifically described in the book, being 3 times taller than its ancestor the Tundra dweller, and 10 times heavier, unfortunately without an estimate of its ancestor it was difficult to imagine its huge size, of course since I had achieved scale up the Tundra dweller, I could also scale up this guys, being around 6 meters tall upright. Spiketooth (Acudens ferox): Just like the plains dweller, I based its size from the grass, althought not the size of the leaves but of soil patterns and texture (this is probably the most speculative of the scales and a little dumb but what I can do  ), giving it a size of 2.2 meters tall. It seems very small for a giant slaughter, however I considered two things that makes me think this estimation is likely and that is that the species is a pack hunting animal and that often in Dixons spec works there are always large herbivores being hunted by smaller pack hunting species.

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So, I was quite thoughtful about what was going to happen about the SE Giants project after several months of leave it "lethargic" one its development since a year ago I kept it in a hiatus to review and update several creatures, specially planning on doing the Alien size chart that was going to be a side chart for being exaggeratedly big (I blame Darwin IV for that), and more stuff... but I have been considering the quality and accuracy in the design of several and how I would have to modify them, since several I did as quick sketches when I was starting with the project, eventually forced me to have to erase and sketch with pencils again and again until have something more or less similar to the organism that I wanted to represent, and actually put a bit of tediousness to correct details since I had to draw, erase, draw, scan, and modifying it with a bit of digital photoshop, in some cases leaving the final result dirty and deformed, or without enough details. However I found a much more appropriate way to modify the sketches in case of not coming out with the proportions or the form, now that I have been practicing with digital sketch, giving me better control and detail. So my new plan for the new charts is start from 0, which gives me more libertie that draw the original ones as I can change them with control and avoid forget one or many, as well and probably use some of the already painted edited forms that can fit well, such as the Titan posthuman as well others. For the moment I leave an example of what I've archieved with digital sketch then painted, at least the beginning for the new version that will come one of these days (I hope this year for sure...), the scale of course is not going to be for the main chart, this scale is planned for the "giants" that couldnt be noticeable in the larger chart. Human (Homo sapiens) Project: Our universe, planet Earth Height: 1.8 m. 1) Shaggyfaced Snouter (Mammontops ursulus) Project: The Snouters Height: 1.2 meters 1) Giant Tasselsnouter (Rhinochilopus ingens) Project: The Snouters Length: 2.1 meters 3) Nightstalker (Manambulus perhorridus) Project: After man Height: 1.5 meters 4) Black carpo (Carpo princeps) Project: Speculative Dinosaur Project Length: 1 meter Note: The Giant Tasselsnouter is pretty much based and inspired from clawedfrog's Pipeorgan Tasselsnouter another species of the same genus, is kinda difficult to imagine these as the only sketch of this bizarre big headed snouter is from a Pipeorgan embrion and descriptions aren't not so clear apart of the major and rich head organ instrument like anatomy of these

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Well after doing more scales I have managed to gather a more or less adequate scale of some of the posthumans of man after man, in this case already of those who could plausibly still have human parts with a length equal to that of a normal human, this including faces, heads and arms. From the Aquamorph (Homo aquaticus), Vacuumorph (Homo caelestis), Mechanical Hitek (Homo sapiens machinadiumentum) and all the members of the Tic (Homo sapiens accessiomembrum) I guess if I keep going like this would likely obtain all the size of most of the posthumans...

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So I come back with another small sketch for the speculative evolution size chart, although it is not one directly for the chart I work on, but an attempt to put length on some of the beings that appear in the last book of the trilogy of Dixon, Man After man, the book about the bizarre future evolution of man, and although I would like to add some of the species to the chart, reading the book I realized the size of any species is never mentioned, so I had to leave it aside.

For that reason I tried to assume a possible length of each one of these human beings based on some aspects including scaling them with objects around them that if they can be measured, however for the style of art and the position of some beings in the pictures I could not get much. The only ones that could get a measure were the "advanced" descendants of humanity that became more dependent on the technology for life support, the cradle mech man and the lumpy nugget man, the Hitek and the Tic, since I assume that their faces and heads that are shown are not so different in size from those of a normal sized modern human, with withered small bodies.

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SE Giants project, The Ebony Blister-wing

A stately flyer, the Ebony Blisterwing Wayne Douglas Barlowe, Expedition, Plate XXXII

If the darwin IV behemoth (or leviathan, choose any) is the Emperor Sea strider, then the Ziz of this world is the Ebony Blisterwing, a titanic aerial creature that inhabits the dense skies, with a wingspan of around 300 meters, is the largest mobile organism on the planet, being mainly a gentle flyer that with several air balloons integrated into its body and wings allows it to stay in the skies.

This being is quite cryptic in the sense that althouth it has its main picture in the whole cover of the chapter of "The Air" as a diagram that shows its huge size compared to other fliers, there are no descriptions about it, leaving it in the imagination about the behavior or lifestyle this posses, as well as the type of encounter that barlowe or another individual could have had with this one considering that an Obspods is shown flying around.

a) Quetzalcoatlus, largest flying animal known, 11 meters wingspan.

b) Pelagornis, largest cenozoic flier as well flying bird, 6 meters wingspan.

c) Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus), biggest animal ever, 33 meters long and 190 Tons.

d) LZ 129 Hindenburg, largest airship ever built, 245 meters long.

e) Emperor Sea Strider, biggest terrestrial Darwinian organism.

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SE Giants project, Emperor Sea Strider

Virtually no force in Nature could affect such a creature

Wayne Douglas Barlowe, Expedition, Plate XVIII

At 190 meters high the Emperor Sea Strider from the book Expedicion is one of the two largest organisms that inhabit the the small red planet, inhabitant of the last existing ocean of Darwin covered by a matrix of microorganisms that together form a hermetic cover , this titan of titans feeds on this by the use of its enormous mouths under its "feet", crossing the ocean and in each step feeding where it walks.

This was one of the first giants that I have made in more that one scale, being the monumental kaiju of Darwin IV, this was a challenge to be able to put it in full body since if I publish this with its size with the scale that I am working, only the head would be seen (or whatever that structure is, you know because Darwin IV) so I decided to work on a separate size chart on a larger scale, this to add creatures greater than 100 meters, and thus not fill with titanic creatures that seem to mix with the background the first size chart.

It is fun to give it a scale and compare it with other creatures, since it simply dwarfs any organism known actual or extinct or created by the spec evo community (apart from minor exceptions that I will show in the future) even though such length is probably impossible to reach for an actual lifeform even in a world with less gravity because there are still biomechanical and metabolical issues that could make them unable to exist, it is still fascinating to see such organism scaled up.

Left:

The tallest tree Coast Reedwod (Sequoia sempervirens) and the biggest tree Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), as well the biggest animal The blue whale (Balaenptera musculus) and human (Below, the black dot)

Rigth: The downsized documentary version.