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QuazarShark — Distant Relative

Published: 2010-06-16 18:35:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 1588; Favourites: 44; Downloads: 15
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Description The Kha animal groups of the planet Nix are surprisingly similar to the mammalian creatures of Earth and Dragonworld in body structure and physical attributes. Notably different, however, is the Kha ability to have parts of the body with chitin-like structures. This material can be and often is iridescent. Nixians themselves are also part of the Kha phylum, and they have a small patch of iridescence on their foreheads.
This creature is some kind of relative of the Nixian race, belonging to a group of roughly cat-shaped carnivores with horn-like apparatus that I just call horn cats because I'm lazy. The ancestor of both this species and Nixians was a large ground dwelling horn cat that used echolocation. This guy however has evolved to live in the Thickening, the section of Nix's mile-high trees where there are many many close-knit branches.
Evolutionally speaking this guy is about as close to a Nixian as a spider monkey is to us.

The only pictures I have of Nixians in my gallery are horrible and out of date, otherwise I'd provide a link. Basically they look superficially like bipedal sabertooth cats.


I drew this mainly because I wanted to draw sumfink, but it turned into Nix zoology, hahaha..
GIMP, couple of hours.
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Comments: 14

OblivionJunkey94 [2011-09-22 08:54:58 +0000 UTC]

Awesome Nuff said ;]

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mushroomisland [2010-12-09 03:38:07 +0000 UTC]

You're very good at drawing
wooow
I'd like to see other creatures, too

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X-Ray0128 [2010-09-25 13:10:27 +0000 UTC]

Interesting creature... Great work with the teexture. I like the head design, the whole thing is awesome though

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RuiRafael [2010-06-30 14:58:52 +0000 UTC]

The shadowing looks so smooth, I could say he's actually walking on the white space\background.
And it's style is so nicely done. I lubs it. Every bit of his anatomy <:

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myoneandonly [2010-06-25 14:22:56 +0000 UTC]

LOL HORN CATS. I think I'm gonna go pet this thing. Goodbye, friend, tell my family I love them.

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Nesihonsu [2010-06-21 14:38:03 +0000 UTC]

Oh sweety!

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janathemama [2010-06-20 20:42:00 +0000 UTC]

aaah,- the planet Nix,- its been a while!
Nice! Cool creature, in a great pose, muscle structure,.. love the textures too..
His horns are off to one side of his forehead, ist that on purpose?
Pretty puttytatt..

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QuazarShark In reply to janathemama [2010-06-21 05:27:23 +0000 UTC]

Er, no, they're supposed to be forked with the lowest point being the centre of the forehead. I just faaaail. There are many things wrong with the perspective of the head, I guess because this originally started as a sketch practice of an open mouth and I wasn't intending to make anything of it. 6__9

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Korini-chan [2010-06-16 20:37:16 +0000 UTC]

omg OMG super super cool and rather scary by the way

it looks familiar, but still really alien so I could totally see it prowling around in the underbrush, being a Hazard to passersby.

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QuazarShark In reply to Korini-chan [2010-06-16 21:51:42 +0000 UTC]

In the uh uh uh uh... overbrush?
xD

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Korini-chan In reply to QuazarShark [2010-06-16 22:07:14 +0000 UTC]

......yes.

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HugoJunstrand [2010-06-16 18:37:41 +0000 UTC]

Nice work!

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QuazarShark In reply to HugoJunstrand [2010-06-16 18:48:36 +0000 UTC]

Aaaa, thanks!

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HugoJunstrand In reply to QuazarShark [2010-06-16 18:50:41 +0000 UTC]

No problem!

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