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Assorted sketches of the ryerunner, an ostrich-sized herbivore that lives on the wheat-covered planet Alicanto. Its frilled eyestalks fold over its head, forming a sort of natural balaclava that shields its eyes and upper nostrils in the strong winds. When extended, the underside is a bright, iridescent white; the sudden flash of a ryerunner's frill can be disorientating to practically anything with eyes in the dull sepia landscape.
Though they, as obligate herbivores, have little interest in eating other animals, ryerunners engage in a particularly gruesome form of kleptoparasitism: using their long front claw, they will cleanly "dissect" other plant-eating animals for their stomach contents (and another other occasional treats, such as gestating eggs or large internal parasites). By seeking out this partially digested food, they are able to add significant variation to their diet and include vegetation they would otherwise not be able to access. Attacks on carnivores are rarer, though still not especially uncommon. Herds of ryerunner will sometimes curiously follow animals, nutritional value or no, for up to several hours - both at ground level and by climbing to the surface of the wheat to stalk from above - before killing and carefully "dismantling" said animal as a group, a play behavior that reinforces social bonds and strengthens valuable hunting skills.
Smaugust 2024 by Critbit
One of my favorite pieces I've done! A little hummingbird dragon :)
i have tried and failed to make myself a secondary animal-critter-thing sona so i just mashed several me-animals together and i thnk it worked this time. this is me. i identify with small skittering animals. i identify with fear
i even made an id board in preparation. i think i captured it well in fact
☽ The killing moon... will come too soon ☾
From a story of mine, he is a sea monster that has been awaken from his slumber (and he's not happy about it)
This one took a hot minute but was very fun! A good learning experience
some more doodles of Lily and her alien companion
was feeling very sad today so I did these to cheer myself up a bit
Just wanted to share some of my OCs! They're some of my favorite DnD characters I ever played as~
(this art is pretty old but I think it still kinda holds up)
London is a wizard apprentice (and also an EXTREME failgirl) who thinks she's human but she's actually part Hexkin - a race of humanoid arthropods. It's a Jekyll and Hyde kinda situation where at certain moments she loses control of her instincts and transforms into the monstrous moth creature Phobos.
London uses her owl plush to talk to her monstrous self, whom she refers to as her sister. Phobos uses the lil caterpillar plush to talk to London when she's in control
some doodles + art of them in the Don't Starve style hehe
yknow what fuck it i made a lil comic
dont worry they're space roommates
Last night I had a dream about an alien woman that looked kinda like this, so I've made some doodles
Last night I had a dream about an alien woman that looked kinda like this, so I've made some doodles
Last chance for unicorn prints!
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people on tumblr be like 'hear me out 😚' and it is The Goo
Hi!! Here we have a silly character design to get my brain to draw again, because I have the worse combo of art block and motivation rn!! :3
A little bit about the character:
-they're a creature
-they love eating oranges
-obssesed with summer! but hates watermelon
Also they attract humans by being oddly alluring and kill them so they can consume them! they are a shapeshift creature so like they change forms a lot to attract their prey plus they usually adopt the person's lifestyle until they get bored/hungry and go back to hunting :3c
WIP, a mix of a spider and snake's mouth slapped onto a torso. the colors are there to code each section of the mouth, they're not the final colors
Earlier this summer, I came across a chair left in the woods (it’s still there) and then just drew this.
Her name is Eck! (including the exclamation point). She lives in the forest adjacent to a suburb. She speaks only in cackles and growls, and like Stitch (yes I know she looks like him) can walk on just her hind legs or on all fours. Eck!’s pastimes include stealing baked goods from the excessive number of coffee shops in the area, moving people’s yard/patio stuff around when they aren’t looking (not stealing, just moving them), and having philosophical debates with the local birds and elementary schoolers.
"渡鸦之翼"（AU）
概念图Concept Art.
The tree is called “赤槁木”/“赤乔”.
More info:
http://rexy2000.lofter.com/post/1f355bd3_12d3dc70e
And DA… 😉
Human eating fairies
Concept art for school.
They are around 30cm tall with a big disproportionate "insect" head. Their hands and feet have only 4 fingers but they have one more knuckle compared to humans. All fairies have an ovipositor and are sexless.
The fairies have different heads depending on their role in the colony (there are no spider-fairies colonies, moth-fairies colonies, etc.).
For example, the Stag-Fairy is in charge of making a wooden baby, one of the things fairies use to hunt humans.
Humans living near fairies colonies can make them offerings in order to avoid being hunted. The fairies will then avoid hunting these humans specifically. However, if all the humans in the area make offerings, they will start hunting the ones who gave the least interesting gifts.
Offerings can be tools (like a letter opener or a bowl), clothes (doll clothes, cut socks...) or shelter. Clothes and shelter are their preferred offerings as they are particularly sensitive to cold.
While the fairies can live in pretty much any corners of the forest, they absolutely love human-made tiny houses that are much cozier and prettier than just living in a tree.
Fairies have a variety of ways to lure humans in their trap which takes the form of a web with an odd pattern. Despite having very little strings, it is incredibly effective as it is infused with magic.
Other examples of house offerings : birdhouses and doll houses.
Fairies have some kind of pet, big acarids that they use to dispose of waste (like human parts they don't eat).
When a human is lured into the fairies' trap, they start losing control of their body and slowly morph into an animal with a human face (usually sheep or pig). Fairies want to fatten their preys and doing so is easier with a pig or sheep's diet than a human's. It is unclear if the transformed humans are aware of their condition.
The fairies' singing and dancing is their main way of attracting humans in their trap, but when egg laying season approaches, they craft a living wooden baby. They then go into a human's house to steal a baby and replace it with their creation. The humans are affected by the magic put on the baby and do not notice the difference. Eventually, the parents will be lured in a fairy's trap as the wooden baby will try to go back to its creators, in the forest.
When egg laying season arrives, a queen is chosen : it has t be the strongest and most resistant of the colony as its body will not survive the process. The queen will be fed excessively as it begins to make eggs that will quickly fill its whole body. Its arms and legs will atrophy and become completely useless, its organs will be barely usable as well, just enough to keep it alive. Once the queen cannot hold any more eggs, it will use its ovipositor to lay eggs in the human baby the other fairies stole. This will kill the queen.
The eggs will quickly hatch once inside the baby and will start eating it from the inside. The larvae will feed and feed and, once big and strong, start shedding, becoming a young fairy.
The type of head they get depends on how much they fed on the baby.
Fairies do have a natural predator. Affectionately called "hat-worms" by humans, they're a magical being that work somewhat similarly to a mushroom. Their "hat" resembles a brain which intrigues fairies who are always looking for more food.
Once at range, the worm will infest a fairy through the holes in its chest, leaving there their "hat" to plug it. It will make it harder for the fairy to breathe (and resist). The worm will start by going to the brain to take control of it. Once done, it will start hollowing and filling the inside of the fairy with spores. It will then move the fairy close to the colony, fly high and explode, trying to spread the spores to as many other fairies as possible. The spores that do not directly infect a fairy become full worms.
One infected fairy can make a whole colony disappear, so seeing a parterre of worms is a sign of good luck for humans.
Sketchbook dump
Remashing an old concept.
Like the basic creature design, but I ked to work on my colour schemes! So I'm going to try it again with markers and get a more varied scheme.
Playing around with this Space Opera is quite fun, allowing me to have quite varied species, fashion, and moods.
The initial quick concepts! Still need to concept two more of the guns! But generally, I like the variety and group dynamic. Pyotr is probably my favourite of the Guns, so far. He's such a geek, rat-man and I love that for him. He's really into Korme'kisian Space Pop, which is basically just alien Hatsune Miku.
