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FOM: Mogu (Sketch)

Preliminary sketch for Mogu; a dragon-like beast feared and revered by the ancient Kilaak civilization. A powerful pseudosaurian capable of achieving lift by electrostatic differentiation with the atmosphere, and remaining aloft with huge membranous wings. Its back legs have degenerated into a pincer-like structure which it can whip about like a spiked flail or grasp at foes with in battle.

R'lyeh: The Seeker

FOM: Rodan (Concept Art)

Coloured sketches of Rodan; the first design, which didn't feel apparently powerful enough, was completely redrawn into the second, much more robust version, which ended becoming the final design.

FOM: Biollante (Concept Art)

Coloured sketch of Biollante; the design here was intended to be the plant beast form, but it ended up getting split in half between the flower and plant beast forms. There was supposed to be an umbilical cord, but that ended up mostly abandoned later on. The designs also got much more complicated between this and the final design, but this was more just for visualization.

Servum did not change much.

FOM: King Kong (Concept Art)

Coloured sketch of Kong; he definitely beefed up a lot between this and the final version.

FOM: Godzilla (Concept Art)

Coloured sketch of Godzilla; as you can probably tell, the design did not change too much between this and the finished version, although he was made broader in general proportions.

Lump-Headed Snark

This does not deserve to be exclusive to the higher tier patrons.

Serina: Platybelodon Circuagodont

This became the treeskinner.

Maastricht Formation (unused)

Initial drawing for "Enigma of the Sea Trombone", with Carinodens and Diplomoceras, which was initially going to be much bigger, but I lost enthusiasm for it having to draw so many ammonites, so I scrapped the drawing and redid the whole thing on a smaller scale.

Serina: Jet vs. Flap

Early concept sketch of a torpacuda hunting some sort of small generic dolfinch. The original idea was to do all the jetguppies in more dynamic poses but time constraints turned them into more neutral, horizontal poses. Oh, well.

Serina: Fishing Circuagodont

Concept sketch I did for a wading heron-like predaceous circuagodont back when Serina was still at 255 MYH. A biped with a coiled raptorial back leg which it can launch out with lightning speed to snatch up fish and other aquatic prey, with highly curved claws and hooked spines covering the inner edges to cling to their slippery, squirming prey.

A number of very long whiskers on the underside of the throat feel the water for the faint vibrations of swimming animals in the shallows when ...

Serina: The Snog

A second lineage of amphibious snarks native to Serinarcta, these are totally unrelated to the gups of the southern continent, having evolved from a lineage of amphibious, freshwater spikerays capable of breathing air, although they re evolutionarily more akin to mudskippers than true amphibians, but are nonetheless able to thrive in the warm and humid global climate of the hothouse.

The back fins of the spikeray turned into muscular forelimbs capable of dragging them on land, while the...

Serina: The Verminator

A large, badger-like descendant of the wormslayer living in the late hothouse era, this is a strange polar predator of the upperglades and night forest well-adapted for the months of perpetual darkness. During the summer, it lives as an aquatic hunter, using its extremely whiskers and bill to detect bottom-dwelling crustaceans, bivalves, molluscs, and slow-moving fish in the mud, which it can crush and devour with ease with broad keratinous teeth. With its relatively low metabolism, it can st...

FOM: Hedorah vs. Rodan

Several initial concept sketches for the illustration of Hedorah fighting the Rodans, I ended up using the third sketch, although some of the other sketches might end up being repurposed for future illustrations.

FOM: Kumonga Designs

Several different conceptualized designs for Kumonga, ended up going with the last design, although the eyes got changed and the spike-like pedipalps turned into pincers. 

Turt

Pliosaur-like softshell turtle I drew for someone else in 2019. This turtle is a large marine predator which is able to stay underwater for days at a time with gill-like chambers of blood vessel-enriched wrinkled tissues below its neck which can extract oxygen from gulping and spitting out water.

Diyu Parade

Perpetually unfinished parade of Diyu animals that I started more than six years ago at this point; ran out of enthusiasm for it because it was too much work at the time and I had figured out all the photoshop drawing tools that would have made it way easier. Ah, well.

FOM: Nessie

Although often mistaken for some archaic marine reptile, the fabled Loch Ness Monsters is descended from a far more ancient group of oceanic predators, it is one of the very last of the dinocaridids. It is speculated that the species evolved in the sub-crustal ecosystems, one passage of which once led up into the Scottish Highlands. This passage was likely destroyed by glacial movements during the last ice age, trapping one individual in the Loch Ness.

This individual, which likely emer...

Serina: Trang Island Endemics

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Skuyena: The native apex predator of Trang Island may be an efficient killer, but it is not an efficient eater, and is unable to cut through bone, unlike the sawjaw predators of the Serinarcta mainland. This has allowed the evolution of a powerfully-built scavenger closely related to the mainland skuagator which often trails behind the snifflers in numbers, eager to tear through the scraps with their huge, bone-crushing jaws.

Skangler: 2023-02-03 03:39:31 +0000 UTC View Post