Art Thread - Monsters and strange creatures

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>>53532141

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>>53532143

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>>53532141

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>>53532163

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>>53532163
>No run-of-the-mill humans, elves and dwarves here!

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>>53532967

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>>53532151
Why are these so adorable?

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>>53532982

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>>53535208
a spiteful shogun,
has embraced his inner most,
Darkness, he rises.

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>>53532187
Geez, Anon. I think there was another thread going for Completely Terrifying Horror Stuff.

>>53535208
How did it know he was holding chap-stick though? I still don't understand.

Can pan-dimensional beings detect ham-fisted product placement? And if so, does it count as breaking the fourth wall? So many questions.

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>>53532203
Hey, I remember a documentary about future evolutions where they had jungle octopi.

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>>53539933

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>>53539898
That's fucked up yo.

>>53536728
Fuck you, the chapstick scene was fantastic

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So, I dunno if this is the place to ask given the thread theme, but this is the only character art thread I saw and I'm not sure making a separate thread is worth doing, so I'll ask here.

I could use some art for what's essentially a space knight. You know, power armor, using a sword or some other kind of primitive weapon, possibly with some glowing bits to show that it's not magic, it's SCIENCE! Bonus points if he's not wearing a helmet and looks relatively young.

Thanks in advance, and here's some art to contribute.

>>53549133
You can try the drawthread

>>53546053

>>53538837

That's some Warhammer 40k shit right there

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>>53549533
Not sure why I linked that.

>>53549331
Nope.

>>53532982
Love this thread, but can I just take a moment to point how how ridiculous this thing is?

> Be me, an evolutionary blight
> Shitty little clawed feet mean I can't use the to grab anything but small branches
> Giant, oversized claw hands on the ends of pseudowings mean I have to climb everywhere
> The only viable predatory tool I have is this giant fucking horn plastered right in the center of my field of vision
> See a deer on the forest floor
> starving as a motherfucker
> climb up to the tallest branch
> leap off
> use my wings to stabilize my rapidly-accelerating downward flight
> slam into the deer at 60-some-odd miles per hour, impaling it and breaking my neck in the process
> die, confused and unloved

>>53535613
>*snaps fingers*
>that's where you're wrong, kiddo

>>53553517
as the man who posted this, right?

I saved it because I laughed so hard, it even has a informational side panel showing how it "hunts"

WHAT IF IT MISSES????

at your preys feet with a fucked neck being like, "oh hai there"

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Got any neat mimics?

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>>53556347

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>>53561798
gross

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>>53549331
Everything is 40k to the typical /tg/er.

>>53553517
>>53555250
I think the infographic is kind of a shit way to hunt but I think it could be perfectly viable if it didn't just dive straight into an animal and like glided in from the side so it didn't break its goddamn neck. Or have it be a cliffside bird or something and it hunts seal-like animals near the coast.

>>53556347
I feel like all you need to do to avoid this mimic is look up, which you're going to do anyways while climbing a ladder

>>53564676
you're not alone in thinking it's a retarded design

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>>53564842
>Implying the mimic couldn't just appear as part of the wall you wouldn't notice, or even become a ceiling tile.

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obligatory

>>53553517
Plenty of animals sound like a blind retarded designed them if you break it down like that. I mean woodpeckers for instance

>Be featherweight (hue) small avian
>Bones are hollow for maximum lightness
>Only food I like lives in the middle of trees
>Only way I have to get to them is by smashing my pointed face into the wood repeatedly as hard as I can and as fast as I can
>Good thing I can wrap my fucking tongue around my brain so I dont concuss myself to death within 2 seconds of being hungry
>Sometimes I can't tell where food is so I just dig holes in random shit like houses until I find some

>>53565967
exactly what I thought when I read >>53553517

By rights, a woodpecker's brain should be dribbling out its ears after the first couple of strikes. Compared to a woodpecker a dropbird is practically normal.

Also, it's hardly as if there aren't plenty of birds that hunt like this. Why doesn't a falcon shatter its legs when it slams into a pigeon at two hundred miles an hour? Because its physiology has evolved to cope. There would a fairly strong selective pressure against dropbirds that broke their necks every time they tried to find something to eat.

In fact, you can see a fairly clear path of evolution for this sort of thing - in its early history it started off by dropping off fairly low branches. The birds with stronger necks had an evolutionary advantage as they could jump of higher branches and hit their prey with more force. Over the generations the dropbirds' necks strengthened until they could dive out of the very tops of the tree and hit their prey with full force. Evolution can fuck around with vertebrae enough to end up with a giraffe; dropbirds actually seem slightly more plausible than an animal that needs blood pressure that should pop its head off like a champagne cork just so oxygen can actually get all the way up to its brain from its lungs.

>>53555250
If failure meant being stuck in the ground on your own headspike next to an animal which, at best, is slightly annoyed that you just tried to kill it, there would also be quite a strong evolutionary pressure for accuracy.


Also, if a duck can have a corkscrew-shaped penis half as long as its body I don't see why a bird can't hunt with a spike on its head.

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>>53566491
It could also operate in flocks for accuracy by volume. This would also let them bring down larger prey. If they're like pack-based peregrine falcons hunting larger game with their faces it might work.

>>53567722
>tfw 0/1

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>>53532141
Do angels count? I'd like some of those given that I don't have many. Granted they usually do fall on the more human end don't they.

>>53539642
>tfw the asshole above you decides to shove their tentacle dick in your mouth

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>>53568908

I need ice humanoids, portraits would be ideal.

>>53539898

Alolan Parasect?

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While not as cool as anything in this thread, I drew up these designs for a monster species that I wanted to inhabit my homebrewed setting. They're called Goatmen, inspired by the New York urban legend of the same name.

There was once a thriving civilization deep in the heart of a massive forest, but when the Goatmen appeared, they took everyone by surprise. No one had ever seen such ferocity or viciousness before, and to this day, no one knows where exactly they came from. But they took that capital, killed anyone who didn't think to flee, and they hang onto it to this very day. They raid and pillage the roads near the forest, and anyone who dares to wander in may chance an encounter with a roaming pack of them.

The top row shows their scale to each other, with the smallest being about 5'6". From left to right:
>Goatman Marauder (general stalker)
>Goatman Deceiver (specialist in illusion magic)
>Goatman Keen-eye (throws daggers made of carved bone)
>Goatman Berserker (pack leaders)
>Goatman Mob Lord (the monstrous monarch of the goatmen)

>>53575505
These look dope. At first I thought the keen-eye just had a belt covered in teeth and grappled people to death. Going to use that some time.

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>>53575505
What's their sapience like?

Do they have art, music, culture?
Which deities do they worship, if any?

Art attached to keep on thread.

>>53574885
These are our first contacters.

No wonder aliens never came back.

>>53575874

They're semi-sapient. They have an animalistic language (Bovidian) and the capacity to think, feel, and intuit, but they are a selfish and spiteful species. Their civilization and culture is very one-track—sustain the self, protect their stolen city, and exterminate intruders into their realm. They have an inherent hostility for humanoids, much in the same way an apex predator would.

The goatmen are capable of producing simple art, mostly scrimshaw (engraving on bones) and wood-carving. They stole their city, so their "architecture" is a ramshackle layer atop what were once proud structures—shantytown treehouses built over repurposed temples. Their music is primal: yodels, war cries, shouts, and screams, and to hear a gang of them "sing" the way they do is terrifying yet humbling. Instruments other than basic percussion (skin-leather drums, bang-bones) are unknown and unneeded to them. Their culture is arranged in a strict hierarchy; the goatmen in the picture are the "soldiers," but of course there's a civilian class dedicated primarily to child-rearing. Older or injured soldiers retire to train the young.

All of them answer to the Mob King, the living god of the goatmen. He led the charge into the stolen city and he still sits on its throne. He wields a mighty eldritch power of unknown origin, and it is through his conduit that the Decievers achieve their own magical prowess. Unfettered by age, the Mob King has overseen his small, chaotic kingdom for centuries. And the Mob King himself answers only to the unknowable essence of the forest itself—a primordial congealment of natural, arcane, and eldritch energies that gave form to the goatmen in response to destructive settlers. The goatmen are its own parody of man: greedy half-beasts who thieve, kill, and hide away in stolen land.

>>53576552
Dude that sounds awesome, especially the yodelling haha!

What does their diet consist of? Considering real life goats are herbivores, the representation of greed (and eating meat) seems like a debate to be had for design.

Is WHF an inspiration (they've also got numerous Goatmen, although in their case they're born to humans as far as I know)?

>>53576696
>especially the yodelling

The Yodel is something I'm really excited about, because it's actually the closest thread they have to reality. Imagine a whole gang of six or so goatmen, rushing towards you with their axes drawn, but singing and bleating like this (open and play in several different tabs at once to simulate the effect):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqOYn03ow8Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgjOSGTDoy8

And you're right that they're primarily herbivores, living off the "bounty of the forest" and all that. They actually graze, believe it or not, but they'd never let a humanoid catch them doing so. But they're also goats, and goats can eat virtually anything, so they prey on the occasional critter. People prey are more valued for their bones (which can be whittled into weaponry) than their meat. Transporting a human body around the woods can be more trouble than it's worth, though, and de-boning a human is slow work, so they'll only take bones if they're already out from injury and only take a whole body if they're close to their city.

And the only inspiration was the Goatman of Maryland (I said New York in an earlier post, but I was mistaken) and my need for a "mob of marauders" monster race I could use repeatedly in my setting in place of the same orcs, gnolls, whatever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatman_(Maryland)

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>>53577132
Kinda reminds me of this comic (http://www.viruscomix.com/page464.html) in that the Goatmen don't necessarily have to "eat" the humans to be scary as all fuck to them.

A goatman shaman performing an intricate ritual including eye.gouging and whatnot might make for a great scene.

>>53532616
wtf

>>53536728
where is it from?

can we have more techno-organic monsters, pretty please?

>>53577323
man those Taheen have really let themselves go

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>>53552156
Japanese artist already did it in the 19th century, but much more fucked up.

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>>53579389
this is badass

>>53583703
Say what you will, I really like the aesthetics of this movie before Sean goes to the weird pseudo medieval place with all the immortal homosexuals

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>>53584113
What movie? I found the pic somewhere in /tg/

>>53584214
Zardoz
>>53584113
eh, it's an ok movie, I think the problem is that it has like 3 settings and plots mashed together.

>>53583676
Wizard of Oz?

>>53532616
The legends are true...

>>53539475
I know right?
The future
IS
W I L D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0kzMmcTS8I
14:00

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>>53556756

>>53552165
pepe evolved

>>53578531
The Mothman Prophecies

>>53592083
Pepe's a frog, not a chameleon

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>>53596388
Looking good brother.

>>53594994
A frog is just a type of chameleon if you really believe

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>>53548359
That pic reminds me of pic related, the bee-infested zombie and lich that /tg/ came up with years and years ago. I love the idea of a zombie that has become host to a bee hive and, as it shambles around, the bees repair the corpse with wax and honeycomb. IIRC it was decided you could see bees dancing beneath the paper-thin skin and it would wander near flower fields to feed its residents

>>53532616
... the joke is they're goats right?

>>53601701
>worm that walks variant, bees that buzz
>druid variant of a lich

>>53603127
Grigeon

Thread two:
>>53605187

>>53577210
Something about the fingers in this is really unsettling