C.O.W. - #034: Blood Splatter Carnage

**Fozzybar** · January 7th, 2006, 06:23 PM

Round #034

Topic:
Blood Splatter Carnage

Deadline:
Sunday, 15th January 2006

- for any questions or help go here:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=37512

note: The deadline won't be EXACTLY after a week...it can last up to 24 hours more, i am human and have to work also, you know

Post your creature for this week!

**Fozzybar** · January 7th, 2006, 06:25 PM

Topic idea inspired by suggestion from JakkaS...thanx man! The original idea was tones of blood - some fearless predator...

I will keep this more open and say make it RED !!!

**silentkitty** · January 7th, 2006, 06:31 PM

Nice. Should be some fun entries this round, looking forward to it.

**darth massacre** · January 7th, 2006, 06:33 PM

I'm gonna jump in and make this my first COW submission. Looks like Red is the color of the week

**grey** · January 7th, 2006, 07:23 PM

be a shame to miss this one

**redehlert** · January 7th, 2006, 08:57 PM

i've opted to go with my revised entry - see last page.

**hwango** · January 8th, 2006, 03:45 AM

Well, that should be...interesting. I only recently learned about the C.O.W. activity when I stumbled across an entry for "Cloud Dweller" in a deviantART gallery, but I resolved to enter the next one that opened regardless of the topic. That'll teach me to blindly resolve things, eh?

**pr0ph3t** · January 8th, 2006, 04:46 AM

blood splatter carnage... this is going to be odd

**JeroArt** · January 8th, 2006, 07:37 PM

Workin on it

hope this will work out well, my first entry

One thing i can tell u already, this work is goanna be one piece of chaos!!

**llothcat** · January 8th, 2006, 10:42 PM

i think ill hop in on this one too...been sitting around too much lately

**gassnake** · January 9th, 2006, 12:51 AM

hmm im thinking of doin this one. it sounds neat. i dontknow if ill make it in though, g2get a damn scaner. hopefully ill use one at school and post it.
but yeah. red; blood splatter carnage. insane

**romance** · January 9th, 2006, 03:04 AM

Nice start Dave! Love it.

Here's my progress so far. Kinda inspired by Puddnhead.

Blood Splatter Carnage - Don't worry, there will be more blood in the finished rendering.

**Chuck,mate.** · January 9th, 2006, 04:09 AM

i don`t get it.
what creature are we supposed to produce here?

**romance** · January 9th, 2006, 04:33 AM

any creature that will cause a lot of blood splatter I'm assuming

**Chuck,mate.** · January 9th, 2006, 04:46 AM

Originally Posted by romance

any creature that will cause a lot of blood splatter I'm assuming

are you serious?
this is kinda...well, dumb.
no offense to anyone,
but a creature that kills and maim and "ho-look-blood-lots-of-blood-cool"?
what will be the criteria?
the REDest image takes the cake?

**Fozzybar** · January 9th, 2006, 06:43 AM

maybe the redest maybe the most brilliant in concept and design...it's up to ourselves...

Also it's not necessarily about creatures causing blood splatter carnage...just make a concept which involves the topic...

**Sept13** · January 9th, 2006, 07:38 AM

It's actually great idea, since for example many games require conceptartists to design the meanest looking monsters that want nothing else, but BLOOD!

Here's a chance to be original

**noche** · January 9th, 2006, 08:22 AM

lol romance; skulls, stripes and aged/overweighted female bodies mixed into a monstruos shape... you really captured puddinhead there =)

**redehlert** · January 9th, 2006, 10:36 AM

hey romance, nice concept! out here in seattle there was a play/skit called the 'vagina monologue' - it's the first thing that popped into my head.

cheers!
d

**Bennett** · January 9th, 2006, 01:51 PM

NIce wips romance and redehlert.

**romance** · January 9th, 2006, 02:05 PM

Chuck - Just paint something man

Noche - Thanks man! Although, I would like to avoid a total rip off.

Redehlert - Thanks. I've heard of the play, and seen some of it on TV. Interesting to say the least. I was thinking of calling the creature Douche Bag, but I'm not sure if that would even come close to covering the spectrum of grossness that is this beast

Bennett - Thank you!

**redehlert** · January 9th, 2006, 04:09 PM

updated my piece. slow going.

**romance** · January 9th, 2006, 04:14 PM

Dave, that's looking fantastic, I think it's one of your best entries so far and it's not even finished!

**redehlert** · January 9th, 2006, 04:17 PM

well, thanks rob!
when you take a break and watch some vids on how work is done (e.g. negrotuerto) things start to make a bit more sense.

cheers!
d

**Fozzybar** · January 9th, 2006, 06:21 PM

yeah red, keep it going...great!!!

**Simonl** · January 9th, 2006, 08:50 PM

Mordor Bloodhound

Born from the same pits as the Uruk-Hai, the Mordor Bloodhound is another of Saruman's unnatural creations. Melding wargs with unknown horrors from the deep places beneath the Misty Mountains, Saruman created beasts of unparallelled ferocity as a gift for his dark master.

**redehlert** · January 9th, 2006, 09:07 PM

ooooh! lovin' it! the toes are a bit lacking (but then again it's a wip)....very sweet!!
cheers,
d

**llothcat** · January 9th, 2006, 11:06 PM

kinda plastic looking, but any how....

it's a tick...the isidious kind that burrows into living flesh to gorge itself. (i hate ticks even more than spiders...)

**invinciblewombat** · January 9th, 2006, 11:19 PM

I'll give the C.O.W. a shot, who knows I may learn something while getting beaten down by the pros.

final version, just got plain fed up with it, desc coming later:

**hwango** · January 10th, 2006, 03:45 AM

Made it home a little early, so I threw on a quick background so it wouldn't be sitting against a whole lot of boring black. Final version:

The Saw-Faced Mangler - The Saw-Faced Mangler feeds on blood, and it doesn't mind having to work a bit to get it. The mangler's usual prey tend to be larger animals with thick hides or armored shells. The mangler leaps onto its victim and secures a hold with its wickedly barbed front claws, then uses the spinning blade in its head to saw through the tough exterior. Once the victim can no longer struggle enough to throw the mangler off, the mangler inserts its feeding tube into the wound and drains the creature of blood. It then uses the tube like a flexible, elongated sponge to mop up any blood that sprayed out of the target while the mangler was cutting through its defenses.

Introduced into an environment featuring soft-bodied creatures, the mangler quickly discovers that its usual feeding tactic will tear its prey apart in a gruesome shower of gore, and it will have to spend most of its feeding time lapping up the results. Still, if prey is plentiful, the mangler will accept the situation and feed from whatever is available.