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Published: 2012-09-15 20:54:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 2896; Favourites: 46; Downloads: 44
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Well, I guess I have some explaining to do. First of all, I didn't reply to most of your comments and replies, because I was making this. Second of all, I made a little miscalculation regarding the time this took to make, which was around 8 hours I guess, so apologies to .
This drawing was made for him as a birthday present, which was yesterday (Update - not any more). The drawing features his creatures, not mine, so the credit goes to him! It features a flyer [link] that has fallen into the water and is now dead (I wouldn't know the cause of death, maybe a heart attack during flight
Oh, wait it is an alien, then does it have a heart Nevermind... 
) and is now serving as dinner for a lot of scavengers amongs which are creatures I based on this sketch [link] , but the most prominent one is a vampire eel [link] , which, during feeding himself, chops loose many tiny particles of flesh, which serve as a good meal for smaller scavengers. I also placed some strange plants based on my own imagination in the background, but they should not be the focus of your attention, though! 
I chose marine and flying creatures, because they usually have a cosmopolitan distribution, and I wouldn't know which of the creatures coexist. I hope I did the size comparison right, though...
Anyway, I hope you guys, and especially Petr, like it, so tell me what you think!
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Glad to hear that my friend. I hope the other request will be just as good, tho I'm kinda going through an art block at the moment... =/
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Don't pressure yourself! I wouldn't want to be a source of stress for you!
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don a good job on the color. Its really good and like how the predators attack and the blood is sprayed in the water.
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Thanks man! 
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I was more inspired by deep-sea fish, but my friend here took some liberty and created a slightly different animal than the original concept. 
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That could well be, though I'm not sure.
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this is a really brilliant dynamic picture. it's awesome to see stuff like this. what program did you use?
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Thanks, my friend!
Well, I started out with a sketch (with a special felt-tip) on paper, then colouring the creatures with SumoPaint, cutting them out with MS Paint (Windows 7), putting them into an environment made with SumoPaint (7 layers, if I remember correctly) and adding the last bit of realism with GIMP.
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NICE Good job, and congrats on the 60 comments you have for this already
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Thanks a lot for the compliments and the congrats!
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Thanks a lot!
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I agree! I wonder why I haven't emphasized my love of the floating bits of flesh slowly descending to the sea floor, it looks amazing!
I will probably abuse your talent again in the future if you don't mind.
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Haha, thanks!
And I do not mind the least!
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thank you so very much! like I said, I am in the process of changing the "vertebrates" (again) XD
I need to find something I feel confident about and to make sure I'll not be making any drastic updates in the future. I have already changed the anatomy once without fleshing it out in much detail and it kind of sadens me. I feel I am still in the early stages of development I think and need some more time of trial and error until I find the "something" I am still looking for.
But luckily, I think I have a new decent invertebrate phyllum going on.
I hope I have an outside look of a "vertebrate" somewhat fleshed out, only "dismantled" into many sketches - like I like this bit here and that part there, I need to put it together.
I hope I won't chicken out this time, this uncertainty is consuming me, pulling me into a dark abyss of despair again, and I know if I fall down there, the project will die again.
My ideas so far include either a bilaterian descended from a trilaterian ancestor (three jaws, fennestrae in the lower jaw that used to be eye sockets in the past, three "tongues," etc...
And I'm thinking that it could also project into the limb anatomy, there would be three groups of three fins ringing the ancestral body, kind of like a dolphin has two fins and a dorsal fin, but there would be a ventral fin in this case, and this basic layout would be repeated three times along the length of the body, but only two of each group of fins would become walking legs. the remaining three fins could find a different use as time would go on, I am thinking of the frontmost one becomming a raptorial appendage, the second one becomming a part of the external reproductive organs and the last one becomming a "sub-appendage" of the tail or the tail itself.
What troubles me the most is that my "backbone trachea" idea might not work, it gets all pushed over the edge in the head and neck, but I may still be able to solve that. (or so I hope) What troubles me is that it again looks like a three-jawed dinosaur, at least the head... 
My other idea for vertebrates is to make them bilaterally symetrical, but I don't know how I'd go about that, maybe I'll use that symetry for an invertebrate phyllum, or both.
The problem is, I am strictly against sonar-using animals being the dominant fauna of any planet, because it seems to me sight is much more useful - not being able to see even though the conditions on the planet would allow it doesn't sound good to me - just imagine how neat even the simplest of eyes are, just a patch of sensitive skin that can differentiate light from shadow. you can tell you got tipped belly up or that a predator is above you, casting a shadow. This can save lives. if there is light, there are going to be eyes, sonar doesn't give you nearly as much information about your surroundings as eyes would, and you basically have to shout to hear a whisper, so you are announcing your presence to your prey. Some electromagnetic sense would be awesome, that's a passive sense too, and certainly useful - in addition to sight. it seems to me that without eyes, you'd be stuck at a "sessile blob of flesh" stage forever.
but whenever I add eyes to my animals, they start looking too earth-like, no matter how many eyes they have and what the arrangement of the eyes is... I think I'm starting to understand why fellow artists make blind aliens, it does make them look exotic indeed, even though it doesn't make much sense on a starlit planet. That's about the second or third sense to evolve damn it! first you have chemoreceptors and touch, and then BINGO! simple eyes emerge.
okay, sorry for the long rant!
I also need some plants to go with the eventual landscapes that I may request, that's the part I am almost completely unsure about.
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Allright, here is my rant!
Well, I'm glad to hear at least the invertebrates are doing well! 
Hmm, weird... I've never had the feeling I wasn't good enough (not saying I'm a good artist, though), but I felt comfortable with the level of art I produced, combined with my age. In my eyes you should feel confident, as you have every right to feel comfortable with the creatures you draw and make up!
That's a great concept!
Hmm, maybe a combination of sonar and sight would work!
Hmm, plants you say
And I personally like the ammonite-like creatures in the first of the last two sketches. They electrocute their prey with the horn on the front part. The electricity is generated by the elongated body in the shell, just as with the electric eel from Earth. And the ridge across the outer side of their shell is to keep them from tumbling over, though I have not really thought about how they would swim, then again...
Hope this all helps to give you an extra inspiration burst!
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You know, maybe I should try to do a little series about a series of planets, each with different conditions, but each supporting life. Maybe that could help me to brainstorm some ideas
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Yes, that might be a good idea!
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Let's see how that works. XD
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I'm eager to see your take on it!
Btw, how about the border between 'plants' and 'animals' being more smoothly or even wider than on Earth
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well, that's actually one of my concepts, making some "paraplantae" that are more like photosynthetizing sessile animals with a hydrovascular system, I am speculating something echinoderm-like would stand at the beginning of the lineage, and my older idea are "root-worms" that burry themselves into the substrate, most of their organ systems atrophy during a metamorphosis - I don't know if they pupate, but they definitely go throufg a state of stasis at that point, possibly even swelling at their rear end - maybe that's a reason why to actually let them pupate or encrust/encyst at least this vital part of their body - and as adults, they only absorb nutrients through the skin of their body and photosynthesize though leaf-like extensions stemming from their butts... XD
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That's a very cool concept!
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You're most welcome, my friend!
And I'm probably the one who has the least right to ask, but will you reply to my rants more extensively? 
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If i were on my pc instead of a phone, i would.
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Ah, like that!
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on and off, yes, but I really have to go back to school on monday, I don't want to miss too much or I would have a crazy ammount of homework
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Yeah, I know that from my two-week absence from school! And then you're even at university!
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thanks! I'll need it! XD
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Well, thanks!
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Of course! It looks pretty good. When I finish my exams I will probably complete this: [link] And we should force Petr to take his wonderful xenobiological project back
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Oww, you have a way better texture than my creatures! 
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I wonder if its blooded is copper-based...
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Uhm, well, they are not my creatures, but yes, that could be... (I thought copper based blood would be redish/brownish, but I guess I was wrong then!
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Nope, it would turn blue because of the oxygen
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MAybe he just had blue energy drink just before dying
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