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MichaelBeaudry — Exobiotica Study 4
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Thanks for your comment! I try to make appendages on my alien creatures depart from the familiar structures of Earth-life as much as possible. The photosynthetic surface they live on spreads like a blanket and has a texture somewhere between a pumpkin skin and elephant skin. Quite breakable, but it repairs quickly in sheet-like layers.
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Man, something about the petal-legs appeals to me on many levels. So clearly-rendered, as with all of your work! What's the surface they're on?
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This is such a great picture! You don't see too many alien pictures like this. Great textures and fantastic designs!
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Thank you! My original design for the crawlers looked too much like Mandarin orange slices, so I changed it.
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They remind me of mites crawling on some kind of larger creature's skin. Is this a microscopic image? What exactly is the nature of the surface the crawlers are climbing on?
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Actually the "skin" surface is a sprawling photosynthetic organism that spreads like a layer over the ground. In places, it can grow to be quite tall. The "mites" are about the size of pigeons. As for the tube feet and other common features, I haven't yet come up with a taxonomic history yet, but on this planet, such appendages confer a greater fitness rate than earth-like jointed limbs. Thanks for your interest!
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Do you use any references for these drawings? They are very life-like.
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Actually I don't have any real references. I have carefully observed animals my whole life, and the creature designs and drawing seem to just flow from that.
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Well, your drawings are excellent, and the designs have a real "alive" texture to them.
My own alien biota also inhabit a low-gravity, dense atmosphere world, and some even have tube-like feet. I wish that I could present them as realistically as yours though.
Looking forward to more from you.
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Thank you so much for the compliments, although I still wish my art was up to the level I keep striving for. I'd like to see your creatures and environments- so keep drawing! And don't worry about how good you think they are at first- if you have the interest and passion, your art will take its own original form after enough practice.
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Thanks for the watch and for the encouragement. It means a lot coming from an artist as excellent as yourself.
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