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Critters of My Imagination 3

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The next page of creatures I was going to upload next, and probably the worst looking page of my sketches that I've uploaded so far. In that way, I guess its the most natural example of my drawing behavior I've shown so far. Anyway, onto the descriptions:

1. An eastern-style dragon character from a story idea sooo old that I've essentially abandoned it. That story was based on the styles of the old legends and folktales from around the world, but told in what I intended to be a fantasy adventure manga; obviously it never got anywhere near that far. Well, this character and his sister were demi-immortals who both had human forms, that I never physically designed and drew, but their part of the storyline was that this character's sister was in actuality a phoenix and the main villain of the whole story wanted to steal the phoenix ability of reincarnation from her, y'know for evil reasons. Her dragon brother (yeah, think that was based on how the gods and their aspects/powers never really made any logical sense to me in the old stories) was, of course, trying to save her, but ironically he was not really one of the most main characters of the whole story idea.

2. A large armored rodent creature of some kind, I will confess I only designed this creature right as I drew up this page. Well, on the previous page, I decided to take away a certain feature from one of the original monster designs, and wanted to make a new creature just from that one feature (actually the nose, if you can believe it). I think I intended it to be large enough to ride, kinda like the next creature, but that one obviously doesn't look nearly so accurate to that idea, in its picture.

3. Long ago, I had a huge fascination with shadow creatures. To an extent, I still do, even though most of these sketches I don't make it nearly as obvious as it should be. Well, this creature's idea was supposed to be a form of shadow tiger that was ridable, and I had several ideas for characters or scenes where it would, but holy shit I can't draw monstrous big cats nearly well enough for that! Anywho, have this cat thing. And yes, the whiskers are somewhat prehensile like tentacles.

4. I need to stop drawing tentacle monsters. No huge evidence has been posted on this account, but take my word for it that it's true. This creature, which I called the Bloodflower Anemone, was a giant monstrous anemone creature that lived at the bottom of a lake of blood-red water. The water was not actually red with blood... okay, mostly, but actually was filled with chemicals that this creature secreted (might've been its waste or some sort of hormone, can't remember, but also didn't matter) The anemone ended up living in the lake by accident, being a creature that escaped from the crash of an ancient alien craft. Its egg landed in the lake and it has fed on the other creatures in the lake and those that came to its shores ever since, supplementing its diet with photosynthesis on the infrared rays from the sun that eventually became the only light that penetrated the waters of its home (pretty sure that science is faulty somewhere, but hey, it's fantasy and not real anyway). The most important characteristic of this creature was that the deep red chemicals that the creature secreted actually had the ability to grant great strength, speed, ect. boosts to those that bathed in the waters, but of course the only creatures that were able to benefit from these boosts were the ones that escaped the clutches of the great tentacled beast that, by now, covers the whole bottom of the lake (the chemicals on and in the body had to come into contact with fresh air for the "stat change" to go into effect, and no, one could not stack the effect with a double dip; the body was already changed as much as was going to happen). It even had the ability to intrinsically change one's transformations (it had to do with the original story that I made up the creature for, but don't worry, I've scrapped that story, too) into better and stronger versions, but of course one had to win it from the anemone by fighting your way out of its tentacled clutches before it dragged you to the mouth and ate you.

5 & 6. A concept drawing I had made for a scene of a fight between a dragon and a like-wise big and terrifying flying shadow creature. This side of this page had a lot more 'scenes' that I just had to redraw as is, for it just worked a bit better to tell the stories here.

7. A huge terrifying giant burrowing worm creature, very inspired by quite a few sources, that I actually featured in a short story that I attempted to win a writing contest with in middle school, and thus get published. I called the creature the Wallworm, and in that story, which NO, I do not have anymore, it lived in a network of burrows in the walls of a canyon (hence the name) that a desert trade caravan was trying to pass through, and it attacked an devoured everyone and even every camel except for one child who got away on a camel, who ended up being found near a village in the desert, where he told the story. That short story really was not as great as I thought it was when I was finished, and I can see why I didn't win, but I had to redraw a concept picture for the creature I made before I wrote the thing. It also doubled as a bit of perspective and foreshadowing practice. I like it. The Wallworm itself only uses its tiny limbs to correct the direction in which it is moving, and also to get a bit more grip on the walls of its burrow. It probably actually burrowed like an earthworm, literally eating through and excreting the dirt and stone of the canyon walls as it moved, but every once in a while it had to emerge to get some "fresh protein." This behavior made it infamous in the world of my short story, a mythical terror that no one had lived to tell too much of the truth about.

8. About two of these sketch pages ago, I mentioned a story about these psychic, magical God Kaiju that I was once working on; well, I feel the need to clarify that the "Kaiju" from that story were essentially mostly brightly-glowing monolithic animals and/or monsters made up of pure energy, and this was one of the main ones that the main characters of the story dealt with: a giant bird known for abducting away the people who became its Godsingers (the people who it gave its magical powers to) and using them both to enforce its will and as its voice in the world. Sure, in the story's world there was the kinds of Kaiju famous in the movies, giant monsters attacking New York and Tokyo and junk, but some of the most frustrating for the governments of the world to deal with were the "smart" ones like this bird, who'd just teleport away as soon as reinforcements came to attack. You see, the world became overrun with these creatures a good few decades ago in this story, and the whole world's just sort of had to adapt to the effects the Kaiju have had on the world. AND before I get too distracted like last time I found this topic, I need to move on and finish this page.

9 & 10. Very small pictures of some more, very tentacled creatures that are part of a semi-current story idea, but I'm quite embarrassed how close their species came out to looking like Black Doom's Eye from Shadow the Hedgehog. I'm sure that it was not so quiet of an inspiration, but, as well as for space saving reasons, I decided to keep their picture small until I'm more confident to tackle that issue.

11. Demonic flesh rooms and hallways count as critters, right?? They are alive, of course. Anywho, this was from a few old, and demented, sketches I did of such creepy living architecture, but in the end, when I decided that I (terribly) wanted muscle tissue stretching across the walls, I realized my skills weren't good enough to put in the rest of the disturbing characteristics I wanted, so that's all I ended up putting there, except for the mouth on the door (which, don't worry, is just possessed wood). That, thus, is why I didn't think it disturbing enough to put anything like a mature warning on it. If anyone has evidence for why something so simple should change, I'll change it, but it's SOOO bad, comparatively speaking, that you can't tell you're supposed to be scared or unnerved.

Well, that's it for this page, and for most of the creature designs from my past that aren't too intimately entwined in a fandom, except for one, only because I forgot it on THREE, DOUBLE-SIDED PAGES!! >.<; It's just a butterfly with a penchant for flying into people's faces, nothing too amazing. Gotta go find it, though, for completion's sake. I still have more pictures planned, this time more... finished. One's not done, but the other will be posted soon enough.
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