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I remade this, you can see the new version here: Creature Compilation Round 1 (Redo)

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So, I had this idea. I often would draw lots and lots of different doodles and sketches on the same piece of paper, but I rarely ever finish those completely and often draw things multiple times in multiple different ways. While this is helpful in figuring out how I will make something, it's often messy and even more often damaged from constant wear from use. I've also done compilations of creatures or fakemon, but never really "finish" them, leaving them in that messy unfinished sketch stage. Plus I've been looking at some other people's penned creature comps, which really got my draw juices going. So after sketching out a few really good pictures on another doodle page, I thought "Hey, why not just finish them, and maybe fill the whole page with other, actually finished, critters?". And then this was born. It's actually a lot of fun to make, and gave me a chance to practice with regular ballpoint pen, something I don't really do very often but had been trying here and there (Mostly when I forget a pencil...). Plus yall get a peek at some of the designs I've been making.

This is also a good way to introduce a new concept that I've mentioned but haven't begun introducing, called Lucid. Basically, Lucid is a game/game concept me and my brother have been working on based on our many crazy and weird dreams an lucid experiences. In a sense, it would basically be an open world RPG dream simulator. Right now I'm working on getting all the characters, monsters, critters, etc designed and drawn out, with a few shown here. I'll be posting more detailed charts and info pages here in the months to come, so stay tuned in you're interested.

I will say that none of these are really "final", as the designs will probably change when I get the finalized individual images drawn and posted. It's just a good way to show what I've been working on while I finish the descriptions of my saved submissions.

Creatures are numbered and labeled with a letter designating which project they are from.
F = Fakemon, P = Pterraforming, L = Lucid, R = Requests or fan art (Mostly fan art, F was already taken)

1: [Fakemon] Scycrow, a new Fakemon for the Ferros Region. Scycrow is based on the stereotype of crows stealing crops, and uses its blade wings to harvest crops for themselves. Scycrow would be a non-evolving non-legendary and will be a Dark/Flying type. Scycrows would be cousins of the Murkrow line.

2: [Lucid*] Punchbug, a small true bug with tiny white punching front legs. From afar it looks a bit like a tiny crab. Punchbugs feed predominantly on species of woodlice, flipping them over with powerful punches from their front legs akin to a tiny mantis shrimp. Flipped prey is then held down and skewered in the soft underbelly with the punchbugs tough proboscis. Being a type of stinkbug, punchbugs can spray a foul smelling liquid when threatened, along with giving a painful venomous bite if needed.
*While this is labelled as Lucid, punch bugs will also appear in the Pterrafroming Project.

3: [Pterraforming] Snail monkeydon, a European monkeydon specializes in eating the many snails native to the continent. Armed with an elongated toe claw, a highly recurved barbed beak tip, a hinged lower mandible, and a highly dexterous tongue, the snail monkeydon makes quick work of any soft bodied snail it comes across. While snails are normally pulled from their protective shells before being consumed, sometimes the snail monkeydon will simply crush the snail within its shell so that the valuable calcium within them can be absorbed.

4: [Lucid*] The false tick or tick spider, an inch long species of spider. Easily mistaken for a tick, the two can be distinguished by the false tick's presence of eyes and more divided body segments. Like ticks, false ticks have an extremely tough carapace, helping protect them from crushing. This is useful for their lifestyle of living under bark on dead trees, feeding on the many critters hiding underneath.
*While this is labelled as Lucid, false ticks will also appear in the Pterrafroming Project.

5: [Lucid] A Whiscandal mid-transformation between its base form and unleashed form. Whiscandals are one of the three primary dog monsters in Lucid, the other two being Chowmoochows and Pootalmetos. Unless facing directly away from someone, their large eyes always remain visible on the face, always following the player in an icy deathstare. This is dangerous, as locking eyes with a Whicsandal for more than a few seconds is fatal. Dog monsters would be the second most common type of monster, beaten out only by the driverless monster cars, the Poleecers, and are extremely aggressive towards players.

6: [Lucid] A male fairy or fairfolk. Extremely small and easily mistaken for an ordinary insect, Fairfolk live among the tall grass and live fairly secret lives. Males are smaller than females, and can be seen dancing and courting to the female if one is lucky enough to find a fairy grove. However, males must be careful, as sometimes the females will decide to kill and eat them if they aren't swayed by the dance. Despite this, fairies are actually extremely intelligent and form loose societies, and can even communicate and talk to humans. That is, if the humans hearing is good enough to puck up their very quite voices. Being small and extremely delicate, fairies are often preyed upon by other insects or spiders.

7: [Fakemon] A yet unnamed scarecrow Fakemon for the Ferros Region, the counterpart and natural adversary of Scycrow. This fakemon would carry around the pole they use to hang in fields as a weapon, able to split it to dual wield while fighting. They also may trade these poles out with tools such as hoes or rakes for use in farm related work. Because of their hatred of Scycrow and their ability to hang motionless in fields when not battling, these Pokemon are popular among farmers. They can also aid in other work around the farm, hence the need to carry tools. Because these Pokemon are essentially haunted scarecrows they never tire and can easily outcompete any human in the field. This Pokemon will probably be ghost/fighting.

8: [Pterraforming] The colossal wanderer, a sea pteranosimian that happens to possess the longest wingspan of any pterosaur ever to live. These massive sapiodonts live their entire lives in the open ocean, almost never coming to land. Colossal wanderers can spend months at a time flying, even being able to sleep on the wing by using unihemispheric slow-wave sleep, aka resting one half of their brain at a time. Wanderers are also expert swimmers, with unusually large hind legs that allow bird levels of buoyancy and ridges along their wings and chest that help stabilize them in the water.

9: [Request/Fan art] zebG 's character Manu, a hybrid between many different types of hoofed mammals and the stereotypical "pturdadackdul". Considering I'm a ptero-nerd and a fan of chimera concepts, I couldn't not draw him. You can find more information on Manu here .

10: [Pterraforming] The snail thrush, a snail specialist cousin of the famed song thrush. While song thrushes are known to eat snails opportunistically, snail thrushes feed on them almost exclusively, using their highly recurved beak and feet to pry the snail's soft bodies out of their shells. Because of this, snail thrushes do not seem to exhibit the behavior of smashing snails on snail anvils like that of their cousins.

11: [Fakemon] The basic stage of #7's fakemon, also unnamed at this point. Like its evolution this small fakemon can wield the pole it hangs from as a weapon, which it uses to help fight off flocks of Starly and Scycrow. Farmers often keep these Pokemon around as farmhands, as they are skilled with farm tools and never tire. When not at work, these pokemon hang from their poles absolutely motionless, only moving to defend themselves or the crops they guard. This fakemon will probably be ghost/fighting.

12: [Pterraforming*] The thorn-legged snowykeet, a North American parrot closely related to the Carolina parakeet. During the summer, flocks of snowykeets live on the high arctic, feeding on the abundant grass seeds of the tundra and nesting on the open ground. Snowykeets then retreat to the temperate forests of eastern North America during the winter, where they feed mostly on buds, twigs, and frozen fruits. To protect themselves and their nests from the many predators they face, snowykeet possess sharp, keratinous spines on their legs, which they can either expose by rolling onto their backs with their legs in the air or by flailing them at attackers while in flight.
*While this is labelled as pterraforming, snowykeets would also appear in Lucid, as they were inspired by dreams I've had.

So yeah, that about sums it up. I've currently got two more of these saved to my stash, so be expecting to see those here in the near future as well (or not, I'm terrible with long hiatuses :/)
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CC Part two: Creature Compilation Round 2
CC Part three: Creature Compilation Round 3
CC Part four: Creature Compilation Round 4
CC Part five: Creature Compilation Round 5
CC Part six: Creature Compilation Round 6
CC Part seven: Creature Compilation Round 7
CC Part eight: Creature Compilation Round 8
CC Part nine: Creature Compilation Round 9
CC Part ten: Creature Compilation Round 10
CC Part eleven: Creature Compilation Round 11
CC Part twelve: Creature Compilation Round 12

All current Pterraforming info and pictures can be found here in the Pterraforming folder of my gallery. You can also find it under #pterraforming #pteranosimian and #homopteranus

As always, criticism/corrections are highly welcome. Don't feel afraid to correct me on any of my sciencey stuff. Please feel free to indulge in the scientific jargon that is speculative biology with me!

Description
I remade this, you can see the new version here: Creature Compilation Round 1 (Redo)

--
So, I had this idea. I often would draw lots and lots of different doodles and sketches on the same piece of paper, but I rarely ever finish those completely and often draw things multiple times in multiple different ways. While this is helpful in figuring out how I will make something, it's often messy and even more often damaged from constant wear from use. I've also done compilations of creatures or fakemon, but never really "finish" them, leaving them in that messy unfinished sketch stage. Plus I've been looking at some other people's penned creature comps, which really got my draw juices going. So after sketching out a few really good pictures on another doodle page, I thought "Hey, why not just finish them, and maybe fill the whole page with other, actually finished, critters?". And then this was born. It's actually a lot of fun to make, and gave me a chance to practice with regular ballpoint pen, something I don't really do very often but had been trying here and there (Mostly when I forget a pencil...). Plus yall get a peek at some of the designs I've been making.

This is also a good way to introduce a new concept that I've mentioned but haven't begun introducing, called Lucid. Basically, Lucid is a game/game concept me and my brother have been working on based on our many crazy and weird dreams an lucid experiences. In a sense, it would basically be an open world RPG dream simulator. Right now I'm working on getting all the characters, monsters, critters, etc designed and drawn out, with a few shown here. I'll be posting more detailed charts and info pages here in the months to come, so stay tuned in you're interested.

I will say that none of these are really "final", as the designs will probably change when I get the finalized individual images drawn and posted. It's just a good way to show what I've been working on while I finish the descriptions of my saved submissions.

Creatures are numbered and labeled with a letter designating which project they are from.
F = Fakemon, P = Pterraforming, L = Lucid, R = Requests or fan art (Mostly fan art, F was already taken)

1: [Fakemon] Scycrow, a new Fakemon for the Ferros Region. Scycrow is based on the stereotype of crows stealing crops, and uses its blade wings to harvest crops for themselves. Scycrow would be a non-evolving non-legendary and will be a Dark/Flying type. Scycrows would be cousins of the Murkrow line.

2: [Lucid*] Punchbug, a small true bug with tiny white punching front legs. From afar it looks a bit like a tiny crab. Punchbugs feed predominantly on species of woodlice, flipping them over with powerful punches from their front legs akin to a tiny mantis shrimp. Flipped prey is then held down and skewered in the soft underbelly with the punchbugs tough proboscis. Being a type of stinkbug, punchbugs can spray a foul smelling liquid when threatened, along with giving a painful venomous bite if needed.
*While this is labelled as Lucid, punch bugs will also appear in the Pterrafroming Project.

3: [Pterraforming] Snail monkeydon, a European monkeydon specializes in eating the many snails native to the continent. Armed with an elongated toe claw, a highly recurved barbed beak tip, a hinged lower mandible, and a highly dexterous tongue, the snail monkeydon makes quick work of any soft bodied snail it comes across. While snails are normally pulled from their protective shells before being consumed, sometimes the snail monkeydon will simply crush the snail within its shell so that the valuable calcium within them can be absorbed.

4: [Lucid*] The false tick or tick spider, an inch long species of spider. Easily mistaken for a tick, the two can be distinguished by the false tick's presence of eyes and more divided body segments. Like ticks, false ticks have an extremely tough carapace, helping protect them from crushing. This is useful for their lifestyle of living under bark on dead trees, feeding on the many critters hiding underneath.
*While this is labelled as Lucid, false ticks will also appear in the Pterrafroming Project.

5: [Lucid] A Whiscandal mid-transformation between its base form and unleashed form. Whiscandals are one of the three primary dog monsters in Lucid, the other two being Chowmoochows and Pootalmetos. Unless facing directly away from someone, their large eyes always remain visible on the face, always following the player in an icy deathstare. This is dangerous, as locking eyes with a Whicsandal for more than a few seconds is fatal. Dog monsters would be the second most common type of monster, beaten out only by the driverless monster cars, the Poleecers, and are extremely aggressive towards players.

6: [Lucid] A male fairy or fairfolk. Extremely small and easily mistaken for an ordinary insect, Fairfolk live among the tall grass and live fairly secret lives. Males are smaller than females, and can be seen dancing and courting to the female if one is lucky enough to find a fairy grove. However, males must be careful, as sometimes the females will decide to kill and eat them if they aren't swayed by the dance. Despite this, fairies are actually extremely intelligent and form loose societies, and can even communicate and talk to humans. That is, if the humans hearing is good enough to puck up their very quite voices. Being small and extremely delicate, fairies are often preyed upon by other insects or spiders.

7: [Fakemon] A yet unnamed scarecrow Fakemon for the Ferros Region, the counterpart and natural adversary of Scycrow. This fakemon would carry around the pole they use to hang in fields as a weapon, able to split it to dual wield while fighting. They also may trade these poles out with tools such as hoes or rakes for use in farm related work. Because of their hatred of Scycrow and their ability to hang motionless in fields when not battling, these Pokemon are popular among farmers. They can also aid in other work around the farm, hence the need to carry tools. Because these Pokemon are essentially haunted scarecrows they never tire and can easily outcompete any human in the field. This Pokemon will probably be ghost/fighting.

8: [Pterraforming] The colossal wanderer, a sea pteranosimian that happens to possess the longest wingspan of any pterosaur ever to live. These massive sapiodonts live their entire lives in the open ocean, almost never coming to land. Colossal wanderers can spend months at a time flying, even being able to sleep on the wing by using unihemispheric slow-wave sleep, aka resting one half of their brain at a time. Wanderers are also expert swimmers, with unusually large hind legs that allow bird levels of buoyancy and ridges along their wings and chest that help stabilize them in the water.

9: [Request/Fan art] zebG 's character Manu, a hybrid between many different types of hoofed mammals and the stereotypical "pturdadackdul". Considering I'm a ptero-nerd and a fan of chimera concepts, I couldn't not draw him. You can find more information on Manu here .

10: [Pterraforming] The snail thrush, a snail specialist cousin of the famed song thrush. While song thrushes are known to eat snails opportunistically, snail thrushes feed on them almost exclusively, using their highly recurved beak and feet to pry the snail's soft bodies out of their shells. Because of this, snail thrushes do not seem to exhibit the behavior of smashing snails on snail anvils like that of their cousins.

11: [Fakemon] The basic stage of #7's fakemon, also unnamed at this point. Like its evolution this small fakemon can wield the pole it hangs from as a weapon, which it uses to help fight off flocks of Starly and Scycrow. Farmers often keep these Pokemon around as farmhands, as they are skilled with farm tools and never tire. When not at work, these pokemon hang from their poles absolutely motionless, only moving to defend themselves or the crops they guard. This fakemon will probably be ghost/fighting.

12: [Pterraforming*] The thorn-legged snowykeet, a North American parrot closely related to the Carolina parakeet. During the summer, flocks of snowykeets live on the high arctic, feeding on the abundant grass seeds of the tundra and nesting on the open ground. Snowykeets then retreat to the temperate forests of eastern North America during the winter, where they feed mostly on buds, twigs, and frozen fruits. To protect themselves and their nests from the many predators they face, snowykeet possess sharp, keratinous spines on their legs, which they can either expose by rolling onto their backs with their legs in the air or by flailing them at attackers while in flight.
*While this is labelled as pterraforming, snowykeets would also appear in Lucid, as they were inspired by dreams I've had.

So yeah, that about sums it up. I've currently got two more of these saved to my stash, so be expecting to see those here in the near future as well (or not, I'm terrible with long hiatuses :/)
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CC Part two: Creature Compilation Round 2
CC Part three: Creature Compilation Round 3
CC Part four: Creature Compilation Round 4
CC Part five: Creature Compilation Round 5
CC Part six: Creature Compilation Round 6
CC Part seven: Creature Compilation Round 7
CC Part eight: Creature Compilation Round 8
CC Part nine: Creature Compilation Round 9
CC Part ten: Creature Compilation Round 10
CC Part eleven: Creature Compilation Round 11
CC Part twelve: Creature Compilation Round 12

All current Pterraforming info and pictures can be found here in the Pterraforming folder of my gallery. You can also find it under #pterraforming #pteranosimian and #homopteranus

As always, criticism/corrections are highly welcome. Don't feel afraid to correct me on any of my sciencey stuff. Please feel free to indulge in the scientific jargon that is speculative biology with me!