Hello again, After ill-advisedly deleting some of my old project-websites as a sort of spring-cleaning a few months ago, I promised to re-post them here. So here we are. I am posting below all of the portraits of different cryptids I did for my Cryptozoologicon responses project. The text always felt superfluous so I will only do small captions now. - The Clawed Pygmy Goat, shown here as a relative of the American Mountain-Goat. The Kappa, shown here as a sparse-furred, aquatic kind of Macaque. Father of All the Turtles, portrayed as an enormous pelagic Protostegid Turtle. Ahuizotl, here portrayed as a leopard-sized semi-aquatic Opossum. Iraq Anfish, shown here as a species of Perch that is notable for a coating of fleshy filaments. The Southern Narwhal, portrayed as a tusked Monodontid Whale. Auli or Water-Calf, portrayed here as a freshwater kind of Protosirenidae. Bis-Cobra, portrayed here as a venom-s...
For a couple of years now, I have been collaborating with the fantastic Sci-fi author, Daniel Bensen. We have been working to assemble a sci-fi story about a scenario in which man has been contacted by a convention that spans the many alternate timelines of earth, those that have produced Sapient, civilization-building species, ones with advanced technology, ones like us. We call this story "Fellow Tetrapod". It was a long and arduous process, but it turned out that we collaborated very well. I provided my services as a conceptualist and creature designer, along with Dan who is also very proficient at this. I was also the main illustrator of chapter-headers. In order to promote this work of fiction, I am posting a rogues gallery of the many and varied persons which we meet in this book. Each species that we see is part of the Convention of Sophonts, which is very exclusive, divisive, weird, and potentially teetering ever on the verge of an inter-timeline war. Those who wish...
Hello again, it's been a hot minute, I have been eager studying the evolution of Cephalopods recently, and it motivated me to dig out all of these old Cephalopod concepts I had from a failed project. These are all fictional, speculative species that could exist on an alternate version of earth. A giant, deep-sea Cirrate Octopod whose body is round, flabby and gelatinous. The beast itself is similar in length and girth to a small car. A deep-sea relative of cuttlefish, that stands on the abyssal sea-floor using its modified mantle and arms. Its habits and method of predation resembles that of the tripod fish. A giant Cranch Squid, similar in size to a Colossal Squid but much more slender and elongate, with specialized arms and tentacles. An enormous, transparent pelagic Octopod, as long as a grown man. It feeds in the upper pelagic zone at night, using its glassy body as camouflage. A small Cranch squid which inflates its body as a defense, and is...
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