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Reptangle β Sloat Concept Sketches
Published: 2013-05-08 18:12:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 6796; Favourites: 237; Downloads: 28
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Drawings and a clay sketch I did of sloats. These are creatures from my comic "the Veligent "I got the face for the male from a photo of the Carina nebula: www.spacetelescope.org/images/β¦
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( the skull drawing isn't accurate. They actually have protruding eye sockets with thick postorbital bars. I just now decided this)
The page of my comic with sloats: reptangle.deviantart.com/art/Tβ¦
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A mΓ me hacen pensar en una mezcla de TAPIR mexicano con oso hormiguero... lindo trabajo, linda galerΓa
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Fantastic creature design! They remind me of the baku from Eastern mythology, but drawn as a scientifically plausible version Γ la Cryptozoologicon!^^
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Thank you!!
Β I didn't know what a baku was until someone pointed out that these sloats resembled that mythical creature.I just thought bakus were badly drawn elephants!
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I like these. You gave them a very realistic design. And nice going getting that sketch from the Carina Nebula! Cleaver.
About how big are they, and what would their coloration be? Browns?
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I figure the males are about the size of a full grown hog, but a little taller.
Β I think they are shaded from a pale cream underside to a dark brown along the spine,Β with a lighter stripe along the midline of the back.
Β Thank you!
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You're quite welcome!
That size looks right. The coloration is similar to what I imagined.
May I ask, are they meant to be earth creatures?
I like their tails too. These are just cool critters!
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They are not earth creatures, they are from of the world of my comic, "the Veligent".
Β Thank you so much!
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Sweet concept work, I really like your style! 
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wow I could see these reallyΒ Β excising. very nice.
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hmm, now with tapirs and elephants, they have short tails- I wonder what the sloat uses it's long tail for?
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What do they do, exactly? In the comic they are a 'danger', is it because they are strong or simply because they gather in a group and run people over?
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Yes. Sloats are pretty big, and smash anything in their path. Not because they are vicious, just because they don't think, and in a group they are very powerful.
I had a flock of sheep. Each one only weighed about 60 -80 pounds, but if they bunched up and ran right at you, (just because that was the way they happened to be going- sheep aren't vicious either) they could be pretty dangerous! Rams do not go around things.
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Oh, I had never known that those little elephant creatures were called bakus! I have seen them before, but I thought they were just badly drawn elephants!
Yeah, they do kinda resemble sloats, but with tusks.
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somehow ugly and really cute at the same time! reminds me of a tapir.
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Besides the intelligence, which is seems somewhat more of a fantasy element to me, I would be not at all surprised if these creatures roamed an Earth where Cenozoic evolution took a different turn.
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Yeah, it sure seems like almost every design was tried at least once, and many, like the basic rodent tooth design, seems to of been repeated many times. I was noticing that my hyrax skull has long, curved, constantly growing incisors very similar to rodents', but hyraxes and rodents are unrelated.
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I love this creature! Great concept! I've done something similar with a character of mine, got his design off a stain on my desk!
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Yes! I do stuff like that all the time.You must now cherish that stain!
Which character?
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I did for a while! Unfortunately when my mom moved she took it with her and cleaned it off!
Embarrassingly I only have a very old drawing of him on DA from 4 years ago 
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An amazing place to find inspiration! And as always, a very cool species!
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It looks like there's a goodly bit of tapir in there; what is the nature of the sloat, besides being antagonistic toward poad-drunk kingly fellows?
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Yes, there's some tapir, but mostly Saiga antelopes: [link]
I find that shape of head to be so beautiful.
They like to swim and wallow in the slogs. They don't move around much, but when they do, they move in a group. They open up spaces for the existing pathways to grow wider, and by plowing through the dense vegetation, make new openings for pathway sprouts to branch off. Sloats are most active this time of year.
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Oh, my!
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Adult male reminds me of that shopkeeper guy in starwars phantom menace - the same mini trunk and grumpy look
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Oh yeah, he does a little! What was that guys name?
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I wonder if they were inspired buy the same nebula photo?
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omg I want one as a pet! Can we please genetically engineer this animal?
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OOHHHH IT LOOKS SO ADORABLE!!! And a little grumpy, but that's what makes it cute
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haha the adult male looks grumpy
I really like them they look cute :> I imagine them wiggling their nose like the Elephant shrew :'D
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Haha! These are lovely (in a sloaty sort of way). I also love the fact that you were inspired by the nebula. It's fun to see things where there aren't supposed to be things to see.
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This is turning out really nice! Can't wait to see the final sculpture!
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Well, I may never do a final sculpture.
This was just for my own reference, to draw from. I often do clay models of characters.
Though if enough people seem like the would want a sloat, I might finish it.Casting that tail would be a problem though!
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I can imagine. Lots of fur detail just hanging out. It would be an interesting sculpture to paint. :3
Personally I would love to see a fox or red panda XD Just for fun.
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