The Creature Thread

**DARAF** · November 9th, 2008, 12:02 PM

I hardly ever post here. here are 2 I finished recently that I posted in my sketchbook thread.

**Lhune** · November 26th, 2008, 02:41 PM

I find the creature thread very inspirational

. Keep it up!

Tapirosaurus.

and a Treant (on lined paper unfortunately, I had no alternative at the time).

**marcnail** · December 1st, 2008, 01:32 PM

Originally Posted by Joert

I love monsters!!!! AHAHAHAHHA!!!!! How much time did you have to do that?

Was it pencil+charcoal+photoshop clean up?

pencil + photoshop

**ghoulio** · December 3rd, 2008, 06:01 AM

Never been to this thread before...pretty dumb...

Looove creatures, very cool designs here from you guys!!
Here are mine...

Cya...

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**Koishii Kitty** · December 11th, 2008, 11:22 AM

here are some random creatures i've been working on, a couple older then others:

**lemon3** · December 16th, 2008, 10:23 AM

hi, this is a throll i made with watercolor in painter,
hope u like, ps. my 2 nd painting here on cg,

**PieterV** · December 16th, 2008, 10:33 AM

Did this last week... no correct anatomy or anything like that, just to relax really.

**coolfierrana13** · January 19th, 2009, 05:46 PM

**ricoartistico** · January 20th, 2009, 04:58 AM

C&C please

**marcnail** · January 22nd, 2009, 03:55 PM

Wendigo Doodle...

**SkiDesignS** · February 15th, 2009, 09:36 AM

Really amazing stuff here...

Here's mu humble contribution, my Tzimisce vampire's Horrid Form (to those who are familiar with Vampire: The Masquerade):

And another sketch of the same thing (I'm definitely changing those wrist spikes, they look retarded):

@marcnail: The background to the Wendingo looks great! It's got a...tribal feel to it, which really works!

@ricoartistico: Those jaws look amazing!

**marcnail** · February 15th, 2009, 10:41 AM

Something buggy. human shilouette for size reference.

**yeticatcher** · February 25th, 2009, 02:42 AM

I am always intrigued by the imagination of people that design unique looking creatures, and there's so many in this thread. I wanted to share some here too:

Cheers,
Yeti

**Rist** · March 1st, 2009, 02:59 PM

Some quick creature sketches:

**Hendric VII** · March 1st, 2009, 09:10 PM

Somebody rip me a new one on this please.

**crazylegs** · March 18th, 2009, 11:52 AM

This is just a sketch done in Painter 9 a couple of days ago. Thought I would contribute while getting back into the swing of things.

**angel2342** · April 2nd, 2009, 07:50 AM

I'm having trouble finding the right body type for this creature. Anyone have any suggestions. I'd really appreciate it if they could back up their idea with evolutionary mumbo jumbo as to WHY it would have that body type. If you need any background on it:

An angler hunts in a way not dissimilar to an alligator. The angler floats on the surface of the water, allowing airflow through the 12 nostrils that line the dorsal portion of the muzzle. The other 12 AE apparatus holes on the sides of the neck are also lie above the surface.

When hunting the angler, opens its mouth wide open. The evolutionary double jaw allows the angler to tuck its lower jaw into the tuft of its neck. Tiny 'worms' or bait hang from the top palate of the creature. This bait smells oh-so-delicious to little fishies and other osteicthians. Fishies come close and the power of two strong jaws anchored to each other, closing at the same time and trap the fishies in the angler's toothless beak.

Downward facing ears lay flat on top of the water's surface and listen for movement of both predators and prey.

The way the angler hunts, allows the eyeballs to be only half way submerged, allowing the eyes to direct the pupil totally under water or to glance above water for danger.

angler belongs to me.

~Note~ Ignore the "barbara kruger" thing. I wrote that down during my studio art class because I think I liked one of the works of art that she did that our instructor showed to us.

**SkooterNB** · April 6th, 2009, 09:19 AM

I'm envisioning a cross between an aligator, komodo dragon, and platypus with the web feet and hair.

Originally Posted by angel2342

I'm having trouble finding the right body type for this creature. Anyone have any suggestions. I'd really appreciate it if they could back up their idea with evolutionary mumbo jumbo as to WHY it would have that body type. If you need any background on it:

An angler hunts in a way not dissimilar to an alligator. The angler floats on the surface of the water, allowing airflow through the 12 nostrils that line the dorsal portion of the muzzle. The other 12 AE apparatus holes on the sides of the neck are also lie above the surface.

When hunting the angler, opens its mouth wide open. The evolutionary double jaw allows the angler to tuck its lower jaw into the tuft of its neck. Tiny 'worms' or bait hang from the top palate of the creature. This bait smells oh-so-delicious to little fishies and other osteicthians. Fishies come close and the power of two strong jaws anchored to each other, closing at the same time and trap the fishies in the angler's toothless beak.

Downward facing ears lay flat on top of the water's surface and listen for movement of both predators and prey.

The way the angler hunts, allows the eyeballs to be only half way submerged, allowing the eyes to direct the pupil totally under water or to glance above water for danger.

angler belongs to me.

~Note~ Ignore the "barbara kruger" thing. I wrote that down during my studio art class because I think I liked one of the works of art that she did that our instructor showed to us.

**evilagram** · April 7th, 2009, 02:54 AM

Some type of weird frog thing I made in photoshop a while ago. Sketched it out in a sketchbook program first, then painted from a brown background.

**Thor's Hammer** · April 15th, 2009, 10:35 AM

I love this thread, and had totally forgotten about it until today. Here's my contribution. I completed this under my old username, Artastic. Why did I change my username? Because I like my Hammer, and it wanted to be an Avatar on this awesome website. -Matt

**Phereous** · June 5th, 2009, 10:10 PM

Here are some alien variants,, enjoy!

**Thomas Back** · June 6th, 2009, 05:46 AM

Great thread! You guys just made my day, thanks for sharing!

**nickay5** · June 24th, 2009, 05:39 PM

Hi all!

This thread is wickedly awesome! Keep up the good work!

Thomas Back-I love how your drawing is both awesomely scary and cute at the same time. If that was what you were going for, you GOT it!! hahaha...awesome stuff

**Yor** · August 22nd, 2009, 08:53 PM

did this one 10 minutes ago, was fun

**kRaven** · August 23rd, 2009, 04:33 PM

Only just discoverd this thread, tons of good work to see. Here are some of my sketches. Not the most intersting design, will paint and post better stuff soon.