Bestiary of the scale

-SPI-

I'm doing some stuff based off
http://www.penny-arcade.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1073835395

The first two (okay, sure only one of these is finished but I'll be updating this thread frequently)

The Endruus (still working on those arms, I'm not quite satisfied)


One of the shadow creatures.

INeedNoSalt

GG, SPI, Much

Talonrazor

SPI, you are a Leonardo among artists.

Inquisitor

Much indeed.

The Endruus looks like he is ready to fuck someone's shit up.

Soup

:^:

The Endruus looks like Dr. Manhattan. Also, .

-SPI-

An updated shadow creature (i should really name them) head. Making the eye more eye-like.



I have this niggling feeling that I'm subconciously ripping something off when I drew this though. I'm almost sure I've seen something similar.

Angel_of_Bacon

-SPI- wrote:

I have this niggling feeling that I'm subconciously ripping something off when I drew this though. I'm almost sure I've seen something similar.

Were-Combine, maybe?

Angry

Allen the alien?

Scooter

Falkor!

Delzhand

The art is fantastic, but I do have a chief complaint with the first picture - the tentacles look tacked on where arms should be. It doesn't look like something that would ever be a natural creature. The torso doesn't really match the type of muscle development that tentacles naturally would attach to.

However, if this creature was once a humanoid type and its arms were removed and replaced, then disregard.

Utsanomiko

It looks like something that'd get its ass kicked on DragobBall Z, to be sadly honest. It feels like an unplanned mix of squid (but the ears and eyes give me an alien vibe) and human features; not the image I had in mind at all, although I'll admit I didn't have a clear thought on what they'd be like beyond being ape-like tree-dwellers, with arms only vaguely categorizable as 'tentacles' arranged radially front-to-back.

The shadow creature is drawn great and well executed, if I'm recalling their description right. It's got some nice fish motifs blended into it.

The other races are probably a better place to start, or sketch a couple of the fish creatures or other basic life to get the feel of the Scale's fauna.

-SPI-

Utsanomiko wrote:

It looks like something that'd get its ass kicked on DragonBall Z, to be sadly honest.

Back to the drawing board.

mattharvest

Avatar Scriptkeeper wrote:

the tentacles look tacked on where arms should be. It doesn't look like something that would ever be a natural creature. The torso doesn't really match the type of muscle development that tentacles naturally would attach to.

Well, that's probably because the types of muscle necessary for tentacles are radically different from the types of muscle involved in endo-skeletal creatures. They attach, move and communicate differently.

As an interesting side note, that's why octopus/squid dont have an actual sense of where their limbs are. Each limb has a semi-autonomous nervous system, which only passes contact information back to the brain. This is because in order to maintain spatial information about each limb, it would have to be fully aware of the equivalent of hundreds of "elbows" (i.e points of articulation) per limb.

-SPI-

Yeah the combination of hominid and mollusc anatomy will take some work.

Anyway! New Stuff! ...Crappy new stuff. :? Well it's mostly preliminary sketches so it's a while off a finished design anyway.

First, I was sketching ideas for Salt's avatar. Going for a collosus feel. Ended up with a Big stone crocodile with some pretty bad anatomy.



Then we have me trying to do a more "dragon" head, whist trying to be something different, because I really think avoiding the cliche's and average RPG stuff is a big part of this.


That might be a little too different. Although it looks kinda cool, pretty useless at the moment.

Then we come to the Riisaan. Just trying to brainstorm the body here, and it looks kinda ok (apart from the right side of the drawing, bad anatomy++) working from a cheetah-esque body.
Then I came to the head. The head/neck on the body sketch is pure rubbish, but then I did the face sketches, trying for a combination of Hyena/person for some reason, and GODDAMN THEY LOOK LIKE SHIT. Like omfg shit. I may as well just shit straight on the piece of paper.

But the body is okay.

MEADONE

The teeth on that dragon would keep it from ever closing its mouth. It's got a serious under-bite and if you want to keep them that way then the teeth also need to look more like they could interlock (like an aligator). I also had this thought: It seems like with that large arch right behind the last teeth the jaw is comming off like a horse's maybe you could reference a horse jaw to get you on track.

Delzhand

-SPI- wrote:

Yeah the combination of hominid and mollusc anatomy will take some work.

I don't have time at the moment to do a quick sketch, but I was looking at it, and I had an idea. Basically, (and I really don't know the particulars of the character/monster, so if this doesn't work or is out of line, obviously don't worry) if you draw the head about as human as it is, but treat the shoulderline and arms as the lower part of an octopus, with the hominid torso descending from the center (or imagine an armless skinny guy wearing a squid as a shoulder cloak), it might work out.

INeedNoSalt

-SPI- wrote:

That might be a little too different. Although it looks kinda cool, pretty useless at the moment.

I claimed this as a title.

Awesome.

-SPI-

Something like this seems more appropriate.

edit- More stuff: WIP

Rankenphile

hawtness, Spi

-SPI-

This pic has nonsensical lighting. I should really quit doing that "I'll save time by having the limbs to the back just outlined then put them in shadow" Oh well. Next time.