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Published: 2011-12-18 00:35:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 4283; Favourites: 42; Downloads: 11
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Description More extraterrestrial weirdness.
I start from top left to bottom right.

A blue colourful tripod with four pairs of eye-like organ and a bizarre proboscis with branching tounges (that could serve as sticky filter-feeding organs). Its tentacle-legs has a very good balance (as it for some reason is standing on its tippy-toes) and the feet tip can sense vibrations.

Next alien is a little hatchling. The creature has four leg and its main senses is echolocation. The yellow "bowl" the egg is resting on is a nest made of cellulose.

Well... As you see, this saurian being is no more alien than that it has four "nostrils" and has appearently never ever evolved front limbs/arms. But I think I can still stuff this guy full of bizarre alien biology. It might have bones made of metal, have two conjoined spinal cords, sense gravity waves with its crests or reproduce asexually by giving birth trough the mouth. There are many possibilities how bizarre and alien this creature can be.

Here we got a REALLY weird creature. It has a jelly-mouth, amorpheus tentacles, bear ears, a heart-shaped eye on a stalk (which I think is evolutionary unfeasible) and the ability to glow in the dark. I can´t say more about this creature than that its design was more based on mind screw-y weirdness than xenobiologically plausible weirdness.

The colourful disc-shaped creature is a Chromasaucer from this drawing .

That green biped with the stalk-eyes is another evolutionary inplausible being I drew because I wanted to draw something weird.

Here is something I usually avoid to draw: a humanoid. A good excuse is that this creature is a posthuman adapted to live in a alien biosphere or it could be an alien that has been biologically uplifted to this humanoid form by humans.
*My more recent humanoids are far more alien.

This little critter is a spider-like pseudo-vertebrate with four infrared eyes, an armour made of keratin instead of chitin and the ability to squirt excrement and pheromones from its siphon-like anus. It is intelligent like a rat and has a disgusting reproduction process that involves implanting virus-like particles into hosts to turn them into wombs for more alien spiders.

A snail-like animal that comes from a tidally locked planet that orbits close to its red dwarf star. As solar flares are common on its world, the snail creature is equipped with a purple UV-sensitive eyes that can detect oncoming solar flares and a black, tough shell the creature retract into in order to protect itself from the flares.

This gray biped evolved on a cold world. To keep itself warm, the animal is covered in epidermal gas pockets. It has six small silicate eyes surrounded by heat-receptors. The purple slits that covers the creatures head are ears. The animal has purple blood and the long appendage between the creatures legs is a extension of the animals genitals used for manipulation.

This sessile being is a polyp-tree that have purple bacteriorhodopsin instead of green chlorophyll. Even if it can feed on sunlight, it prefers to eat any passing animals as they provide more nourishment than what sunlight and nutrient-poor soil alone can give.

A giant sea-dwelling animal from a cold high pressure water world. It has no gills and breathe directly through its skin. Its main senses are echolocation and electroreception. It is a filter-feeder.

A biped from a low gravity planet. It has three eyes (the third eye see in a different spectrum of light while the two other eyes sense visual light). The creature can also sense vibrations with its hooves. Its reproduction involves floating, mate-seeking pheromone bombs and fertilisation that requires salt in order to work.

Another alien from a low gravity planet. This creature moves by jumping on its singe tail-leg. It has six eyes and it has a snake-like tounge. It has two hearts, a skeleton based on carbon instead of calcium, the ability to squirt blood from the eyes, a dolphin-like intelligence and it is a hermaphrodite that lays its eggs inside corpses.
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THEINVINCIBLEPHANTOM [2015-05-22 18:58:34 +0000 UTC]

Drawing weird things is fun! 

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Transapient [2011-12-25 01:26:18 +0000 UTC]

All wonderfully alien aliens! My favorites must be... oh it's so hard to choose... I suppose I'll give a few words to some of the strangest I see.

The tripod seems to be a fantastically topical-feeling alien. I just like body plans like that, simple yeta full of weirdness.
The same could be said for "love-eye." The heart-shaped eye is definently an alien feature. I could think of some ways it could be possible. Remembr, photoreceptors, or the casings of the photoreceptors need not resemble eyes. It could be adapted to a different radiation. It could be a plate of hardened light-sensitive skin. Have you seen frog's eyes on earth? I have seen there are species with vey odd pupils, in the shape of squares, and hearts.
When I saw the hatching sonar-tetrapod, I thought it was a whole creature. What sort of biology would that have been?
The low-gravity-hoofed-biped certainly seems to have been given considerable thought into its reproduction cycle. Requirements of specific minerals or chemicals to reproduce, that is interesting!
I also like the new rendition of the chromasaucer! (smile)

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