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DargonXKS — Deep Sea Dragon Concept
Published: 2010-11-09 05:08:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 5521; Favourites: 234; Downloads: 0
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Older art I never uploaded. I thought I was gunna do more with it for upload but never got around to anything. It's a concept of one of the variations of water elemental dragons for the little world of them I have going on here.The design of this creature is pretty much a cross between a goblin shark and a moray eel. Well at least appearance and function wise of a sort. The jaws that you see are actually pharyngeal jaws that have modified in function to become the main jaws. The lower jaw has shrunken and just helps with the jaw launching/opening mechanism. This way the sudden expansion of the jaw on opening can both be used to grab prey and create a suction to ensue capture.
Well that's what I was going for anyway, I'm sure some of the biology needs sorting out.
The colors are just kinda slapped on to make the sketch pop a little, not necessarily indicative of the actual coloration.
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With that nose, yes it does a bit.
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Oh yes. I Love those crazy things!
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FYI DONT GET MAD IF MY CREATURE's JAW kinda LOOKS LIKE URS..
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And which creature would this be out of curiosity?
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Great, just what I was goin for!
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I love the Goblin Shark-like head. Nice color choice too.
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Neato 
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Seeing as it is based a bit on shark anatomy I'd say a bit of both, the main jaws are surely bone but there must be a fair bit of cartilage for flexibility.
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Ahh
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My main inspiration was a mix between a goblin shark and an eel. There is a neat video of how the goblin shark's jaws kinda shoot out like my critter here. [link]
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Damn
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And that's why I love nature shows!
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I love goblin sharks! And This idea is awesome, you pulled the design off really well.
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I'm glad it came across well, they are such neat creatures.
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Oh most definitely! They need more love.
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Kinda reminds me of a gulper eel with those badass jaws :3 Really awesome concept!
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You could definitely say there is some gulper eel in there.
Thanks!
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creepy factor 10+ with the jaws .. I don't think anyone would be able to stand still seeing that even from a safe distance
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Well thankfully they prefer to live in deep water then!
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for some yeah 0.o
but really neat design ^^
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I absolutely love the design of the jaws. Wonderful work!
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Thanks, watching animal shows inspires me sometimes.
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OMGOMGOMG THIS IS SO AWESOME!
moray eels are one of my favorite animals! as soon as i saw the skeleton sketch i was like, "hrr? are those pharyngeal jaws?" combining shark and eel to make a dragon = pure awesomesauce.
this design kicks ASS! thanks for sharing!
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Haha thanks! I love moray eels as well, obviously 
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