Showing posts with label creature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creature. Show all posts

Monday, March 6, 2017

Bones, Ungulates and Others

Another sketch dump, consisting of some skull studies, pronghorn and other miscellaneous creatures.



Here's a drawing of the extinct american cheetah (Miracinonyx) chasing down an extant pronghorn. Size comparison is probably not exact. The american cheetah is named such primarily due to morphological similarities between it and the contemporary cheetah, owed to a theorized case of convergent evolution. In actuality it's more closely related and similar in size to the modern puma/cougar.


The pronghorn is also interesting for similar reasons. Neither a deer nor an antelope, it's the sole surviving member of the family Antilocapridae and evolved separately from true antelope. It's closest living relatives are the giraffe and okapi. Their horns are also built more like a giraffe's knobs than anything else, composed of an inner bony core and a skin covering that hardens into a keratinous sheath and is annually shed. Both males and females have horns although the female's are smaller.






A walrus, hippopotamus, manatee hybrid.


Sunday, January 15, 2017

2016 Debris

Last doodles of 2016. Farewell to a strange year, I hope I can make the next more productive as far as personal art goes. Lots of ideas as usual buzzing through my head, soon the time will come to throw them all in the thunderdome and see what survives. 

Most of these are all messy stream of consciousness scribbles without much planning to them. Some are working out ideas, others random, a few are life drawings. Ideally at some point I'd use some as ref for more finished drawings later.
















Some neglected Inktobers:





Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Red Arrow

Been too long since I've painted Arro. I'm hoping to spend more time on personal paintings and sculpts soon.


Below is the original scrappy doodle I started with.


Also here's an impromptu sketch commission I did for someone this past weekend at Rose City Comic-con that tickles me.




Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Saurian

Raptors spying on a passing herd of anatosaurus. Painted for the art book of Saurian, an upcoming dinosaur lifestyle simulation game.


Saturday, June 11, 2016

Akhlut

Akhlut is a creature from Inuit mythology that transforms from an orca to a wolf or orca/wolf hybrid as it travels between land and sea. Been doodling them lately as I like the idea of large chubby land whales.



Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Chub Wyvern

Sketching some fat square-skulled wyverns for a design I'm toying with, along with other various critters.