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Published: 2012-06-22 01:32:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 2737; Favourites: 62; Downloads: 20
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A arthropod inspired sentient, very much still in the tribal and nomadic times of their race's life. I really like these guys, I am still tweaking them but expect to see more of them.Related content
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Nice i like theese a lot im starting to draw more sentient critter at the moment theese are just fantastic
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Thank you! Sentients are fun to create.
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Yes indeed they are i look forard to seeing more of theese guys
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Great concept, especially in the bottom version!
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Very well made! But I realized that it sort of looks like my own sapient life form. So I hope you don't get angry if you someway stubble upon my alien and notice the similarities between them.
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Link me to your sentient, because I don't know which one it is. Is it the one in your avatar?
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If you're talking about the human looking thing, then no. That's a super soldier. The sapient alien is depicted in this doodle: [link]
It's not the best depiction of it, but scanner problems are preventing the better renditions from being seen.
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Oh ok, I'm sorry I don't really see a lot of resemblance between my design and yours, other than they have a lot of legs.
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It was the centaurism that made me think so. I'll take this as you don't care that there's a superficial resemblance between the two species?
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All I meant was that the two didn't look similar to me, I can't see all of your creatures body though, so they may be more alike then I can tell from your picture. I'd like to see more sketches of them!
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Thanks! Well you'll see them when you stumble upon them. Oh snap, I realized that I just did a cheap plugin! Sorry
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I look forward to any sketches you post!
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I am really loving their legs actually. Tell me more of their culture? :3
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They are semi aquatic, they have gills as well as lungs, though they prefer the water. Many of their settlements are built underwater or alongside water, most of their structures are round due to the fact that big long streamline bodies don't fit very well in rooms with corners. As I mentioned before they are still tribal, using spear and club like tools, as well as blades. As for the rest I am still working on social structures and the like.
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How large are they? What do they build with? What do they eat? How do they have babies?
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About 8-10 feet long, often times their houses are built out of mud and reed as well as (as gross as it is to us) their own guano, though it's more like mud than anything. Still a little stinky to us though. They are omnivores, they eat crustacean type creatures and mollusk like creatures often, as well as whatever else they can hunt that tastes good. They also eat seaweeds fairly often as they have some of the vitamins their body naturally craves (the way some animals crave to eat dirt for iron or salt). They lay clutches of eggs underwater and someone is with them at all times, guarding them and being sure that there is oxygen circulating through the eggs.
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Do they have a high mortality rate of young? Or are their clutches small? Do they mate for life or for the season?
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Not a SUPER high mortality rate, but if some eggs die it's no biggy. Their clutches are decent sized.
I am not sure on pairings yet. I was thinking that they actually had "mating groups" where there is a few individuals would sort of switch out to produce different offspring. The offspring would be raised inside the group and then once they came of age they joined another group. Similar to a lion pride actually, now that I'm describing it in any detail, but less violent.
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So not a lot of emotional attachment from one of them to another?
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No there is, there is strong connections between two or three of them, but mating isn't a big thing to them. It's not like humans, we usually consider sex a really big deal, where as for them it's mainly just making more of themselves. It's not a pleasure source like it is for us.
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What do they find pleasurable? (Not in that way necessarily) Like how do they find joy?
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Swimming! THEY LOVE TO SWIM. They will chase each other around kelp forests and do flips and whatnot. They can swim by sort of motoring along by flapping plates on the underside of their bodies, but when they want some real speed they will tuck their legs up and retract their head and use their tail like a dolphin's. They enjoy lounging in the sun too on the banks of rivers/seas/lakes/mangroves/etc. Hunting is something they enjoy doing as well, it's necessary for their survival but is also a social event.
And just real quick, going back to your question about the young, when they are eggs there isn't a lot of emotional connection, once they have hatched a bond will form and the children are fiercely protected and cared for.
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Ah that makes sense, if they never really bonded with their young not many would survive. How often are young born? Once a year?
And yay for Swimming! I guess all their games would revolve around swimming?
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Well they DO bond with them, but only after they've hatched.
Many of them do! But they have probably invented others that are not as swimming centered.
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What would their reaction to a human be? How large are they?
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8 - 10 feet long, about 4.5 - 5 foot high. And i have NO idea how they would react to humans. They'd be initially cautious but would probably become more curious than anything since they are bigger and faster than us (assuming we don't have guns we are going to shoot them with),.
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Human: S'up? *raises hand in greeting*
Aliens: *collective: ....?*
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That is most certainly how we will greet a newfound alien species xD "sup"
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Okay okay. XD If it was me I'd probably freeze and hope they don't see me, then back away.
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Awsome concept. Can't wait to see more.
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