She's more than a woman, she's also an Aardvark

All too often we forget what a deadly assassin the Aardvark can be. Named after the greek Orycteropus afer, it is a nocturnal burrowing animal with hoof like claws and a taste for vengeance. With it's cold steel, and deadly aim, this naked destroyer will let nothing stand between her and retribution.

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Bouncing Kahuchus

The Kahuchu are an interesting species in that they are not distinct seperate creatures but a collective organism born from one of the living Mountains on Kolorax. Each of the creatures have no individual mind or head to speak of, rather the Mountain controls their actions. Whenever the surface of the mountain is damaged or broken, a portruding cavern begins to form and sap is released, which later becomes another Kahuchu. With it's highly rubberized anatomy, Kahuchu's spend their day bouncing around the surface of the mountain, returning to their cavernous nooks in the evening.

Jessica

This is a portrait of my sister-in-law, Jessica. She has the type of striking features that are ideal for drawing and painting.   

Jessica - Oil on Bristol, 17" x 11"

This drawing below is also Jessica and it was for a t-shirt. Which you would think would be a simple thing to order, but no. Never underestimate the ability of automated ordering to completely overcomplicate and totally screw-up something as simple as printing this line drawing on a shirt. Next time I'll use a permanent marker instead.

Jessica - Vector Line drawing for t-shirt

Spacebird

We return to Planet Kolorax this week to investigate a peculiar species of bird.

Click on image to study the Agnora Bird in greater detail

Floating at the cusp of the methanoid haze, the Agnora bird is but one of the many energy converting organisms that support the vast biodiversity and peculiar elasticity of atmosphere surrounding Kolorax. Utilizing an external circulatory system the Agnora is able to inflush magnesium and explume colorful chloramine crystal contrails in it's wake. These contrails do not dissipate but rather coalesce in orbit and can be observed as rings around Planet Kolorax. Observed here for the first time, we see up close the delicate tracery of veins and delicate spongy flesh that keep the bird aloft as it navigates the gas with an almost imperceivable twitching of exposed vertebrae.

All babies are cute

Finished up my Morkachuga studies this weekend with some headshots and a study of a sleeping infant.

for the latest Creature Forge challenge on CGHub.

By any other name

Certain people have a talent for lighting up a room and making everyone smile, I know such a person and her name is Rosie. Of course my sketch only gives the tiniest sliver, the remotest hint as to how joyful, funny and inspiring such a person is, but it's a start.



Rosie - digital sketch



...and in other news, this monster has new shoes. I wasn't satisfied with the clunky design from the waist down in my initial design so I put him on a workout plan, and now he's ready to dance.

MORKACHUGA

Working on the Jungle Giant Challenge at CGHub. This one requires an adult and infant version of the same creature .. so if I stick with this design, I'll need to make a cute baby version of this, but I'm still uncommited to this dinosaur look.