HOME | DD | Gallery | Favourites | RSS
| Biofauna25
Biofauna25
βοΈ
[21774741]
[2012-04-19 03:45:56 +0000 UTC]
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 6; Deviations: 728; Watchers: 635
Watching: 20; Pageviews: 124700; Comments Made: 1462; Friends: 20
# Comments
Comments: 110
π: 4 β©: 0
π: 4 β©: 0
π: 0 β©: 1
π: 0 β©: 2
π: 0 β©: 0
π: 0 β©: 0
π: 2 β©: 0
π: 2 β©: 0
π: 1 β©: 0
I have learned so much about anatomy and drawing from Your art, I hope you come back soon!
π: 0 β©: 1
π: 0 β©: 0
Hi ! I wish you a happy new year and good health! I hope that 2019 will announce your return, with your creatures and your worlds! I miss you ^^
π: 0 β©: 0
Thanks for favoriting my work. I hope you're having a great day
STAY AWESOME
π: 0 β©: 0
yo I was wondering if you could draw something for me. Please draw Hilda from Pokemon 18+ but still SFW reference 78.media.tumblr.com/de4deb5148⦠ and bill cipher reference: cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/i⦠ remember she's 18+ and a fusion.
π: 0 β©: 0
they've just released a seven-second teaser clip for Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom.
Have you seen it?
π: 0 β©: 0
Not much, how about with you?
π: 0 β©: 1
starting new stuff
π: 0 β©: 0
could you have a look at this? -Β JURASSIC MONTH STARTER IMAGE- Gyroshere valley
π: 0 β©: 0
Hey, I have always admired your speculative guinius. In fact, you are one of the biggest inspirations for me to actually bring forth my own alien worlds with (what I think) a realistic prespective on alien life. Can you please review it and give me any critique. Not everything is finished yet and a lot has yet to be released, but, I just want to make sure that the stuff I have makes some sense.
π: 0 β©: 1
Of course! I'll check it out right now.
And thank you
π: 0 β©: 0
Hey man, you've got great skills. I would really like it if you could help me out.Β
π: 0 β©: 1
Sure thing! What kind of help are you looking for?
π: 0 β©: 1
alien designs and and stuff like that, check out my work 4 further understanding
π: 0 β©: 1
Well, I always try to draw inspiration from the only living things I really know: those from Earth.Β
However, don't let yourself be limited by the patterns here. Think outside the box; try things that may not work, there's only one way to find out. One way that I try to change things up is to take the orientation of the organs in one creature and try to fit them into the basic frame of another, then build up from that. Try to separate systems/senses that are normally connected (like respiration and olfaction).Β
For instance, if I'm trying to give a creature a good sense of smell: my first thought would be of something like a moth's feathery antennae, but that are retractable and flick out like a snake's tongue; give it something of a barnacle-motion-like effect. Still thinking outside the box, this apparatus doesn't even have to be on the head (heck, why even give it a 'head', try putting the CNS at the core of the body).
Basically, the best advice that I can give is what I just did. Try anything you think of, get carried away, build off of or combine other ideas, never stop until you're satisfied
π: 0 β©: 1
thnx man, I really appreciate itΒ Β
π: 0 β©: 0
your Xenobiology is one of the best ive seen
π: 0 β©: 1
Your creatures are very creative! Keep it up.
π: 0 β©: 1
have you ever tried sketching "alternate prehistory" creatures?
Meaning creatures from "what-if?" scenarios that involve the earth's prehistory like:
-what if the dinosaurs never died out?
-what if the permian extol never occurred?
-what if the hexapod fishes came out of water instead of tetrapods?
-What if vertebrates never existed?
-What if the earth stopped spinning?
-what if life formed on earth without the moon?
(here is a diagram from the "non-extinct dinosaur" scenario that I made: - taliesaurus.deviantart.com/art⦠)
π: 0 β©: 1
I have thought about doing a project like that for a while, I've just always been more interested in alien biospheres.
I may do an alternate-Earth or transplant-bottleneck project sometime in the future.
π: 0 β©: 1
what do you mean by "transplant-bottleneck project"?
π: 0 β©: 1
When a single type (or a few types) of Earth animal is transplanted to a largely barren environment/world and allowed to diversify and evolve to fill all available niches.
π: 0 β©: 1
oh, i understand, yeah that definitely work with you style.
Like if, for instance, a group of snails (or squids) were placed on such a planet and left to evolve for another 400 million years....
NOW THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!
π: 0 β©: 0
Hello friend! How are you ? I wanted to know, what have you planned for your new planet, I'm curious. Can we talk?
π: 0 β©: 1
Bien sur. Que voudriez-vous savoir?
π: 0 β©: 2
how are you ? this is a long time it has not heard from you ...
π: 0 β©: 0
your new ideas of creatures, what you will inspire you, if you will draw the world, etc ... if you want I can even help you! c always a pleasure to talk with you xenology!
π: 0 β©: 0
The vast majority of my drawings are done by hand in colored pencil, but sometimes I use Photoshop to fine tune them. My only fully digital pics are the maps I make in Illustrator.
π: 0 β©: 0
Yo Bio, I have a question. What are the biggest lifeforms (plants, animals and other kingdoms) on Nerrivik and will you ever include them in any drawings?
π: 0 β©: 1
Sednums are probably the largest organisms on Nerrivik, some species growing to nearly 25 meters in length. I've already drawn one in my "Frenzy" picture: biofauna25.deviantart.com/art/β¦Β , and there will be more in a future piece. Plantlife on Nerrivik doesn't grow as big as that of Earth due to a different kind of vascular system that would be unable to support such size, so that's why the largest organism isn't some kind of Redwood equivalent.
π: 0 β©: 1
So cool, in your art "career" were you self taught, taught by someone else or is this just a natural gift?
π: 0 β©: 1
I had some talent to begin with, but I'm mostly self-taught.
π: 0 β©: 0
Hey Biofauna, I have a question about the evolutionary tree of the life found on Nerrevik. How is a single branch of life able to produce hexapods, quadrupeds and bipeds all from what I presume is a common ancestor? Did it start out as hexapods and some lineages lost their limbs over time, and if this is the case, does it provide any evolutionary advantages?
π: 0 β©: 1
I'm actually planning on posting a cladogram about that pretty soon, good timing.
There are actually three major branches on Nerrivik's tree of life, one split off earlier than the other two and led to the 'molusthropods' like tarshes and karans, but it's the other two that are of primary concern here.
As described in my Fish Skeletal Bases picture, Nerrivik's endoskeletal animals divided early on into the groups of Illiacranids and Scapucranids, the two other main branches I mentioned above.
Illiacranids can be evolutionarily recognized by their fish-like ancestors converting one pair of fins into a ribcage and another into limbs (with the fifth becoming a tail), later specialization taking this basic body form into many forms. It is only because of mass extinction events and competition of their survivors that we don't see such relative diversity in Illiacranids today (some now-extinct lineages were quadrupedal, even tripedal), which is the main reason I include pictures of previous periods of Nerrivik's history.
Now, both the hexapods and the quadrupeds are Scapucranids. Their fish ancestors had six limbs with many bones along their length, much like a spine or tail, and the older hexapods kept this trait. However, such a configuration keeps any organism with it relatively slow, the many joints and smaller bones unable to withstand jolts or sustain extended activity, and the relative closeness of three pairs of legs prevents elongation for mobility without elongating the body as well (I should state that Nerrivik's evolutionary forces explored this possibility, but the resultant organisms were quickly outcompeted by the quadrupeds, which happened to evolve at the same time). The quadrupeds evolved from the hexapods (and in fact, still technicallyΒ ARE hexapods) by simply picking up their rear pair of legs and adapting them to roles other than locomotion, freeing up space and mobility of the fore and mid pairs and allowing the body to elongate in a more stable way. The toes present on the ends of quadrupeds'Β legs evolved after this conversion occurred, and they simply weren't needed on the third, non-locomotive pair of limbs.
So, there are really only two major groups of large land animals on Nerrivik: the bipeds (Illiacranids) and hexapods (Scapucranids), it's just that some hexapods don't use their third pair of limbs to support their body, so they have become more like tails than true legs.
π: 0 β©: 1
| Next =>