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Shamelessly using the same sketch four times, but it feels good to just be rough and open with things. The shape of this creature was originally something for the Tenebra Versa part of the headworld, but it actually fit pretty well into the Sohaereàn stuff. Not refined and thought-out at all yet, but it’s a nice silhouette to do something with. :)
Had a very calm Saturday and lots of time to play around with the “curve creature” from yesterday. Now it looks like a halfway believable creature, and while it doesn’t feel entirely “Soharic” yet, I like the design.
The extendable neck is no actual neck, but rather a repurpose of its first pair of limbs. You can see the thin arm bones in the “neck” of the second image. The skull and brain remain in the upper thorax and only the eyestalk moves with the extension of the false neck.
On the third image, I tested a common Soharic color pattern on the creature, and it also suits it well :)
Was sorting through older sketchbooks and came across this first page from one of 2018′s books. I didn’t remember drawing this and had a good chuckle :D Man, that’s the only thing I miss about pre-covid times - all the sketching on the commuter trains.
I’m currently pulling old(er) images from sketchbooks and folders, give them some rough base color and arrange them on pages to get more feel of what’s actually already there, what works and what doesn’t. As soon as an idea comes around, no matter how generic or mundane, I give it a sketch with no artistic requirements. And every time my brain tries to hold back, saying “naaah, this is stupid/boring/has been done a million times”, I ignore it and go on. It’s insanely liberating, although I still chase THE IDEA - but it’s going to come around sooner or later. Gotta have some more fun on the way.
A part of today’s drum train sketches. The creature in the foreground looks like a miniature strider, and that’s what it’s possibly going to become :)
Still pretty slow on the drawing side of (worldbuilding) things, I don’t know if it’s the weather, the need for vacation, me growing older or everything at once. Nonetheless, here’s something I made in May :)
It’s a first series of ideas and sketches for a semi-aquatic predator which developed from corioalars. As soon as the sea recedes and reveals the tidal flats, they come down from the hills and hunt smaller creatures feeding on sea snails, lugworms and other marine life. They are also able to chase fish in shallow water, using their wing-fins for additional propulsion.
I really like the overall design, but the legs don’t work for that environment. Gotta update them at some point in the future :)
At the moment, I really enjoy being super rough and raw, not caring about a beautiful image, just bashing things together and see if they work. This is one of those raw bashes on which I tested several ideas of the last days and weeks. The hard worldbuilding and the visuals start to come together, slowly, and if I look at this image full-screen, I begin to feel something :)
Again nothing beautiful tonight, it’s one of those wandering-mind-sketches after a week which was too high in entropy and doesn’t need to repeat itself. It’s basically the same image from yesterday’s train ride again, only with a little more bending towards the strider anatomy - oh well x) It do be like that sometimes.
