Belkins Scorfus

Competition between native fauna of the Columbus continent and newly arrived species from the Polo Island chain via a newly ermerged land bridge has caused aggresive adaptations over time. This is most easily seen in the now extinct species Scorfus Graphus, its ancestors were for the most part lightly built solitary foliage feeders. How ever in response to the threat of the newly emerged Tyranous Undatus a light built active predator that specialised in the hunting of animals with a similar build as Scorfus, Scorfus emerged as a well built and slightly larger herd grazer.

How ever these adaptations still resulted in a high mortality rate especially amongst young individuals. Eventually the Species Scorfus Graphus took on a new course of evolution that resulted in the creation of Scorfus Comaus an aggresive scavenger. To compensate for the greater and more active exsposure to predators such as Tyranous Undatus Scorfus began to develope armoured plating along the head, neck and sides.

Desert Primate.

Im trying to get a COW going between the class mates at uni, choose the wrong time though as everyone was quite busy finishing their work. Anyway I did start it but never got round ton finishing it, I found my WIP of it the other day when showing a freind some of my work and decided to finish it.


Basically I imagine it as a primate of gorilla ancestry that prowls up and down beaches looking for carcasses of sea turtles or other meals of the moment.

Ive also been looking at two sites which focus on personal world building projects;
http://www.themoraeriver.com/
http://members.casema.nl/gertvandijk/

These are two excellent sites that focus on the creation of imaginary worlds with a particular interest in Speculative Biology. The morae river is a beautiful project that focuses on more earth like biology, theres some really nice art work there. The second site Planet Furaha also has some very nice works but puts alot more effort into the science behind the scenes, going in depth to explain things such as weather patterns, cartography and a whole host of other aspects of world building.

Uni Concepts

Heres the final concepts that Ive done for the first semester, was quite good fun to do these concepts, the breif wasnt something that I'd come up with given my own choice so to adapt to visualising another description was a nice change.

Belkin

Still very busy with uni work at the moment so with the bit of free time between sleep and uni I have train doodling. So I decided to have a go at colouring thumbnail drawings.

Chav Frogs.

Just some more Chav frogs, submitting work for uni projects soon.

Crits welcome as always.

New stuff

Not new ideas (still alien fauna and... Alien people) but new images non the less.

During the week I was sketching on the train trying to add some 3 D definition to my drawings after my girl freinds critique about it all being too flat which shes very right about unfortunately, so I started sketching and ended up drawing this which Ive dubbed 'Fisher Beast' after an old concept I did which might be on this blog somewhere. critics are welcome as always.

Heres a finalised version of the Trader, going with an amphibian anatomy to explain the 'long fingers' in the breif.

And I've also started doing some drawings of alien frogs which im going to paint with dart frog colour schemes, in particular the species Tinctorious and its many hundreds of sub species (the one below is based on tinctorious citronella, google it, they are amazing frogs to look at) , these are all predominantly blue, black and yellow frogs which can be quite difficult to paint as they are not contrasting colours to me, there also quite shiny so its going to be an exercise in lighting for me aswell, expect lots of terrible attempts with the 'chav' frogs in the next few posts.

Resurgence of the Traders.

After getting over losing something I'd spent two hours working on I decided to start from scratch with the Trader, I think it turned out well so far but I've still got to work on the hands and feet, im going with an amphibian type anatomy so I want to give them a nice colour pattern, though I'm not sure if a dendrobate colour scheme would just look like too much and detract the attention away from the figure.

anyway heres a line up so far.

Ive also started on a concept called 'Cyber Droid' how ever I might abandon this as I'm not so sure I like it.