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CarolineLaplante — Cockatrice Soldier
Published: 2010-05-25 18:03:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 9301; Favourites: 261; Downloads: 282
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There are plenty of human/animal character hybrids in fantasy game art, but I haven't seen too many mythological creatures used this way, so I took a stab at a humanoid cockatrice warrior of sorts...Related content
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Realistic in appearance. I would not want to fight that fellow. I surrender!!!
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seriously. I'm getting all kinds of ideas now from a race that turns things to stone
on the other hand, I'd image having to face one of these guys would be quite fearsome. A cockatrice is dangerous enough; militarized cockatrices would be devastating.
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This is so wonderful! *0*
I loved cockatrices before. Now I love them even more! ♥
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wow, you are the first I've ever seen do this so to me ... this is an amazing breath of fresh air. Excellent work!!!!
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thanks very much 
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Indeed, it is unfortunate that a small minority of mythological creatures have been often depicted with anthropomorphism.
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This is a really amazing design, I would love to see Cockatrices as a playable race on MMORPGs now XD
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thanks 
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ENEMY! RAGE AAARGH! D:< HATE COCKATRICES! HATE HATE HATE HAAAAAAAAATE!!!!!
......nicely done though <.<;; this I shall admit! *favs image of his hated enemy* >.>;;;
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Ahahaa-- now i have to ask WHY?
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because <_< every game
ONE
some how gets away with killing me.
it started with Final Fantasy VIII >_>; and every game Ive picked up that they are in, they torment me! D: they're nature's (or lack there of) response to ME Q.Q
do they ALL have to have petrification?! *sobs on the floor on his hands and knees* ||| OTL
D&D too! AND Crystal Chronicles ...
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Very good.
I remember seeing some cartoon once which featured bipedal intelligent cockatrices. No idea what it was.
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well a bit more precise response. You had some neat idea the cockatrice / basilisk is a rather unused mythological creature, also i like that you didnt make that antroporphic version a little less goofy than the the regular cockatrice designs are, he still looks like a rooster but still rather badass. Some nice details on the face also. Hmmit looks a bit like a Croc tho, not sure if thats intendet! still some nice job there! id love to see more incarnations of rareley used mythologiical creatures.
all around nice job on the picture and on the idea !!!
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thanks! And yeah, I used the croc plating to fill in the lizard part of the basilisk's body. I'd actually love to do this guy over, since he's looking a little old to me. Any ideas on what i could fix or make cooler?
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Its already pretty darn cool but you could for example make him look more battle hardened and make the beak a little stronger currently hes hardly visible (very roster like tho)
You could also make the lizard part a little more pointy you already got those crock like Scales on the Legs you could make the edges look sharper just as example. You got some realy nice Ideas here you can work on a little more like the Chicken like feet thats a pretty neat Idea to mix the animals more, now you could add some slight lizard like features in the Roster part and some more chicken like in the Lizard part but keep the seperation line between them stronger and more distinctive.
Giving both parts a little "weird" feel to it but still make it look like one of those Medieval Monsters that are realy just two Animals thorwn together and make it be evil.
Also currently the Wings look just like tiny wings maybe you could make them look more crippled like they are not only there for decoration but that actually he used to be able to fly with them but over the course of evolution those have become useless and are now just a brief reminder of their heiratage.
just some ideas 
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good ideas! I'll definitely take those into account if I redesign this guy... I'd love to do others int the future, but it all depends on what I need to work on for myself
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May I have this picture in PSD?
If I am called, nevertheless, Andreas chicken (Andy Chicken).
Andy
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aw i only have the jpg for this one 
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Cool. *drool* Not often mythological creatures are done justice like this. Great job playing around with making it humanoid and warrior-like too. I could definitely see this being as part of a culture rather than merely a species or a random monster for someone to kill. Oh, so cool. The things your drawings make my imagination do. *cartwheels*
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aww *blushes* you're too kind
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Very neat-looking..did he put his own feathers on the spear or did he get them from somewhere else?
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I was thinking that when the Cockatrices reach manhood (roosterhood?) They pluck two feathers from their now full wings and attach them to their new weapon, to symbolize that they are a part of it and the weapon is a part of them.
Kinda cheese, but that's it
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Ooh, very nice.
Are you going to do other mytholgical creatures like this? This one
came out pretty awesome. I especially love the details in the face.
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Thanks! I'm glad you like it, the face gave me some trouble, since a tiny change could ruin the resemblance to a rooster.
I wasn't initially thinking of making more, but it's definitely a theme I could continue to draw on. I tend to try to shoot for the less obvious creatures when I pick my themes, so maybe a hydra or something tricky like that (I like headaches)...
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Hah, headaches are fun, no?
And if you do continue, less known mythical creatures
would be an interesting theme. I would love to see
your ideas.
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I'll try and make it happen
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I think you'd be able to pull out some kick ass Egyptian ones like Set with your style.
Also the level of detail is impressive, great work as always!
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ooh nice idea. I used to be obsessed with egyptian mythology as a kid. It would be nice to do a revisit... Thanks!
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Looking forward to seeing it!
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