#HOLY SHIT MYTHPOSTING IS BACK WHAT??????????

[abhorrenttheorizer]

I remember the good old days on my first drawing here about making "spicy mythical creatures". I then realized not long after, that vertebrates are fucking boring. Especially mammals. Primates? Yawn. Cetaceans? Double yawn. Felines? I have been in a boredom induced coma for 7 years. Every extant and extinct mammal look exactly the goddamn same to me.

Now invertebrates? Based as hell, even members of the same genus in some vertebrate species can look vastly different. There are just so many options for invertebrates and using invertebrates for the useage of speculative xenobiology. However, it's difficult to apply such wonderful physiology to mythical creatures which are often a hybrid of a human being with some other dumb ass spiney. Which leaves no wiggle room unless you want to make something completely unrecognizable. Which, for designing inspirations of mythology, completely defeats the purpose.

So, as long as my fickle will to draw is still strong, here is a rebirth of the Sphinx, if the Sphinx was an unholy conglomerate of crustaceans, echinoderms, lions, porcupines, scorpions, pterosaurs, and microbats: (fullscreen for decringing)

Forgive the hypocritical felinoid body plan after I wrote an essay about vertebrate borefests (besides birds, they're somewhat okay). It's been a very long time since I've done anything original and an even longer time since I've done anything original that I didn't abhor. But, if I click my heels and wish on a star enough, perhaps soon I will be making aliens that are not just lobster cats with influencer lips

I'll be talking more about their biology (they're much more interesting inside than outside) once I finish those sketches up. Which should be in about a decade or so.