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Karijn-s-Basement โ€” Original Species Tutorial

Published: 2012-06-30 19:07:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 33019; Favourites: 917; Downloads: 150
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Description Inspiration can be found EVERYWHERE. You just need to learn to see everyday occurences as inspiration sources.


Creating an Original Species is based a lot on the backstory too. Sometimes you can find two 'original species' that look a lot like the other one, so what is it that will give your species a boost? The info you give about them.


The nice thing about original species is that you can say what you want about them and no one is going to correct you on it.

Some info you may want to consider adding is:

Size/Diet
It's very important. An OS can be the size of a mouse or the size of a whale. Think about what you want to use this species for, as pets, as riding animals, as fighting creatures... The diet is important too because an aggressive herbivore species wouldn't probably try to 'taste' its victim.

Intra-species Behaviour
Are they loners or do they live in packs? What is their social structure? Pairs stay mated for life? This is very important in case you want to do a lot of adoptables of this species and are interested in future breeding. Buyers should be informed if they're trying to create a pack out of solitary animals.

(We all know that it's very rare for an adopter to pay attention to Every Single Thing you write on your species, but for those few that want to treat your character exactly the way it was created, you should consider writing it anyway)

Inter-species Behaviour
Are they friendly? Are they used as pets/mounts/guardians/etc? How do they interact with humans? This is important to help a buyer (or yourself) decide how the species is going to interact with other characters. This must consider the Intra-Species Behaviour too, because a loner wants to be alone no matter the species of the other characters you put around them, but knowing if they have a particular dislike for something can help in developing the dynamic between the OS and another character.

Example: OS is friendly with others, lives in a pack and cannot swim. Friendship with water-species will probably be very difficult despite the OS being very sociable.


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Original Species Walkthrough
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Comments: 132

Dame-Egg In reply to ??? [2013-03-04 21:00:26 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the tutorial on the body shape, I seriously fail at that, would you mind if I used the basic body shape? (Just steps 1&2)

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Karijn-s-Basement In reply to Dame-Egg [2013-03-04 21:22:00 +0000 UTC]

Sure, just try to re-interpret it by yourself and not obscenely copy it.

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Dame-Egg In reply to Karijn-s-Basement [2013-03-07 17:08:43 +0000 UTC]

And I agree with you on long tails, if I had it my way I'd invent super long paper so I could just go mental

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Karijn-s-Basement In reply to Dame-Egg [2013-03-07 17:18:40 +0000 UTC]

...I'm now imagining a toilet-paper tail on an OS. This is bad. B|

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Dame-Egg In reply to Karijn-s-Basement [2013-03-07 17:27:31 +0000 UTC]

Well, at the rate my designings going, it may end up with a toilet paper tail

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Karijn-s-Basement In reply to Dame-Egg [2013-03-07 19:47:48 +0000 UTC]

Now now, try to be positive. รฉ_รจ

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Dame-Egg In reply to Karijn-s-Basement [2013-03-07 20:08:19 +0000 UTC]

Fine, I like the body shape, and the tail doesn't look like toilet paper. But, I can't draw heads and it looks so bare

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Karijn-s-Basement In reply to Dame-Egg [2013-03-07 20:24:29 +0000 UTC]

You can look at some pictures of animals, I usually go to youtube and browse NatGeo videos to get ideas if I'm feeling stumped.

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Dame-Egg In reply to Karijn-s-Basement [2013-03-04 21:25:23 +0000 UTC]

Oh no, don't worry

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EarnestTryvia In reply to ??? [2013-02-26 05:12:49 +0000 UTC]

Is that an actual species? Can I make one?

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Karijn-s-Basement In reply to EarnestTryvia [2013-02-26 09:32:35 +0000 UTC]

Yes, it's one of my species, but it's not open, unfortunately. รฉ_รจ
If you wish, though, you can purchase the base here: [link] and then you can use it for OCs and adoptables, if you want.

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EarnestTryvia In reply to Karijn-s-Basement [2013-02-26 13:08:20 +0000 UTC]

If we were to use your lineart for OC design, may we continue to draw him on our own afterwards, or must we only use the lineart?

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Karijn-s-Basement In reply to EarnestTryvia [2013-02-26 13:20:02 +0000 UTC]

Once you have created your OC with the lineart you can draw them however you please, even with new linearts yes.

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foxclanleopardhead In reply to ??? [2012-11-21 07:46:08 +0000 UTC]

Now I want to make one of these things! They look so cool!!!!

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Karijn-s-Basement In reply to foxclanleopardhead [2012-11-21 14:03:29 +0000 UTC]

Haha, good luck.

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foxclanleopardhead In reply to Karijn-s-Basement [2012-11-22 01:12:16 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I'll try to....some time tomorrow when I'm bored at my parent's friends house since their kids are older than me!

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Bells-SnowPaws In reply to ??? [2012-10-08 05:27:11 +0000 UTC]

Simple but informative....I it!

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Karijn-s-Basement In reply to Bells-SnowPaws [2012-10-08 12:26:52 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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VayVayViolenceWolf In reply to ??? [2012-09-12 04:56:06 +0000 UTC]

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Karijn-s-Basement In reply to VayVayViolenceWolf [2012-09-12 10:46:44 +0000 UTC]

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BaseCentral23 In reply to ??? [2012-09-02 17:26:50 +0000 UTC]

Wow, this is amazing! Good work!

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Karijn-s-Basement In reply to BaseCentral23 [2012-09-02 17:31:04 +0000 UTC]

Haha, thank you!

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CopperFishy In reply to ??? [2012-08-13 00:11:21 +0000 UTC]

This is epic<3

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Karijn-s-Basement In reply to CopperFishy [2012-08-13 09:40:37 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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CopperFishy In reply to Karijn-s-Basement [2012-08-13 11:05:23 +0000 UTC]

No prob

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SkullFace13 In reply to ??? [2012-07-20 17:40:49 +0000 UTC]

o.O You make it look so effing dam easy. -.-

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Karijn-s-Basement In reply to SkullFace13 [2012-07-20 20:52:44 +0000 UTC]

Don't worry, I take at least seven tries between a passage and the other.
A lot of my species gets scrapped because I'm unhappy with either the general looks or the anatomy.

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InvaderShadowWolf In reply to ??? [2012-07-02 19:58:51 +0000 UTC]

Okay, I am really clearly very immature. I cracked up when you said buttcheeks. PfffbttthhhhHAHAHAHA Aww sheeiit... XD But this is SO COOL!!!

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Karijn-s-Basement In reply to InvaderShadowWolf [2012-07-02 21:20:42 +0000 UTC]

I cracked up when I wrote it. I believe we're proud owners of a Primary School Brain.

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InvaderShadowWolf In reply to Karijn-s-Basement [2012-07-02 21:36:28 +0000 UTC]

Immaturity forever! *enforces fist bump*

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Velvaden [2012-07-01 13:44:45 +0000 UTC]

Oh, thanks, this will be so helpful. :3

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Karijn-s-Basement In reply to Velvaden [2012-07-01 19:43:30 +0000 UTC]

I'm happy you think so.

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Velvaden In reply to Karijn-s-Basement [2012-07-01 19:56:25 +0000 UTC]

Oh, and I love your icon. :3 Baby looks soooo cute.

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Karijn-s-Basement In reply to Velvaden [2012-07-01 19:59:14 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!
The artist finished the commission about a couple of days after the one who did Edgarallan's so I wanted to wait a bit before changing it... Though I'll probably keep this one for good.

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Velvaden In reply to Karijn-s-Basement [2012-07-01 20:15:16 +0000 UTC]

Yep. ^^

You should, I just wanna squeeze her. But I don't know if she'll like that

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Karijn-s-Basement In reply to Velvaden [2012-07-02 21:25:45 +0000 UTC]

Haha, she surely will.

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Velvaden In reply to Karijn-s-Basement [2012-07-02 21:30:23 +0000 UTC]

YAY *squeezes baby*

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Telelia [2012-07-01 04:45:08 +0000 UTC]

Good to know since I've been wanting to create adoptable out of my OS

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Karijn-s-Basement In reply to Telelia [2012-07-01 08:52:29 +0000 UTC]

Glad it helped.

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Pyronic-Tiger [2012-07-01 00:32:44 +0000 UTC]

The little part about Loki But it's a nice tutorial!

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Karijn-s-Basement In reply to Pyronic-Tiger [2012-07-01 08:52:10 +0000 UTC]

Haha, thank you!
(And one has to find inspiration from the little everyday things... And Tumblr this days is FULL of Lokiddleston. )

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Pyronic-Tiger In reply to Karijn-s-Basement [2012-07-02 22:34:35 +0000 UTC]

Tumblr in a nutshell= OH GOD LOKI WE LOVE YOU YOU'RE SO MISUNDERSTOOD I'LL GIVE YOU A HUG WOW TOM HIDDLESTON IS AMAZING AND BEATIFUL FUCK LOVE ME

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Karijn-s-Basement In reply to Pyronic-Tiger [2012-07-03 09:33:36 +0000 UTC]

I agree.

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Amondrask [2012-06-30 22:56:05 +0000 UTC]

Excellent! I've just recently gotten a tablet and I haven't ever really been too skilled at drawing ( I get frustrated with my lack of ability), so tutorials like these help a lot. Thanks for sharing. <3 Also, love your creatures. Really nice designs you have. Definitely going to try to make some of my own sometime soon. :]

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Karijn-s-Basement In reply to Amondrask [2012-07-01 08:58:08 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, hopefully it will be a concrete help in making you design your own species.

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lou2209 [2012-06-30 21:58:58 +0000 UTC]

Wooo Loki

Awesome tutorial aswell :3

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Karijn-s-Basement In reply to lou2209 [2012-06-30 22:01:39 +0000 UTC]

He's everywhere!

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xNeverEndingRain In reply to ??? [2012-06-30 21:12:47 +0000 UTC]

How come I didn't see this coming from you? ^^
You make awesome tutorials.

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Karijn-s-Basement In reply to xNeverEndingRain [2012-06-30 21:45:57 +0000 UTC]

Haha, thank you!

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xNeverEndingRain In reply to Karijn-s-Basement [2012-06-30 21:57:54 +0000 UTC]

This helped me to start my species.

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