#spirit creature

[slasholantern]

late Christmas gifts!

to my friends, who made this year fun and worthwhile

@cavemanman @gauntletqueen @stratos-arts (happy bday!) @anaglyph-micromys @toastietv @sligstew @faqualidesign

[ironyferrum]

Ending (probably) the artfight on a bit of friendly fire :P The lovely birb Kasai! Lovely backstory for a lovely character by @subbirban.

[claypigeonpottery]

that colour change! I honestly had very little plan going into this piece. the sketch was pretty vague and I changed my mind a few times.

[avenshaven]

[monstersovka]

spirited away 🌱

[wolfsteax]

their question was foreign, I could not understand

[bixels]

End-of-Splatoon thoughts.

Thinking about how since the very start, Splatoon has had a feature where players can draw and post artwork and spot them as graffiti on walls or billboards. Or how the weapons have always been paint brushes and rollers and ballpoint pens. Since its inception, Splatoon has been dedicated to engaging its players with the act of creation and creative expression, showing them how their art can build communities and (literally) change the world.

Thinking about finding golden human-made music discs buried underground for thousands of years, and a grand finale music festival. About the Voyager Golden Records. About those human handprints etched into concrete in Alterna. Did those human artists know it would end like this? First a fiery death and then, eventually, a worldwide celebration of music to represent our shared past, present, and future. Did they know that their songs, insignificant in the face of extinction, would one day become the solution that will save the next dominant life-form from the same fate?

Thinking about how eerily similar the Octarian domes are to Alterna. About how close Inklings and Octolings were to repeating the same mistakes as humans. But their doomed fates were undone not by some miracle technology or military power or a rocket, but by music.

Thinking about how humans wiped themselves out with war, and our parting gifts were liquid crystals that somehow paired with the DNA of primeval inklings and somehow infused them with our memories and culture and a Song. And 12,000 years in the future, that same Song will end a war.

Thinking about how art and music and punk culture and rock & roll and friendly competition and petty arguments and water guns aren’t uniquely human concepts, but the fundamental qualities of intelligent life. An inheritable spirit that can cross evolutionary bounds.

Thinking about the theme of Splatoon, that art and music and fun will not die with the human race. That every piece of art we create is a seed we sow for future generations to reap. That our legacy is ingrained into the crust of the earth. That long after we’re gone, the oceans will remember, and they’ll pick up where we left off.

Thinking about how Splatoon says that the essence of humanity –– the thing that will outlive us –– isn't war or prejudice or destruction or greed, it's a song.

[ex0skeletal-undead]

The Deer of the Haunted Woods by Eduardo Pereira

This artist on Instagram

[yellydany]

Nightmare Scarecrow Design commission🍂🐦

[maureen2musings]

The fleeting beauty of dawn

shaazjung

[vcreatures]

A two for one post today.

Dragon posts for Smaugust.

The Maple Leaf Drake is a small to medium sized woodland dragon that populates temperate forests across the globe. Their unique body morphology allows them to hide, almost seamlessly, amongst vast maple forests. This physiological adaptation also extends to seasonal color changes throughout the year. They will live their lives hidden amongst the leaves, using their long proboscis bill to pierce through the bark of Maple Trees to extract the sweet sap, which makes up the majority of it’s diet. 

Incredibly skittish, the Fearful Precious Red Coral Drake lives it’s life hidden amongst Red Coral. It’s long proboscis-like mouth snatching up small unsuspecting pray. 

[tubbytarchia]

wild hair centaur gf troubles (Gem can't be tamed and neither can her hair)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Turtle Takedown Teamwork.

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[shpepyao]

Character that was born almost 2 years ago when I was feeling low, enraged and helpless Now he has a reference and some lore, perfect before Art Fight, heh I'll just copy here what I wrote for him on AF profile c: Being tainted by wrath. Their true self was lost long time ago, only empty husk remains. He lost ability to shapeshift in feral and humanoid form alongside with his magic, being stuck in true, monstrous look. Wrath is tall, almost 3.5m from toes to tips of horns.

Wrath is the reason behind forest fires on the planet, and since creature can't be killed by normal means, fire only makes him stronger, until he eventually "calms down" (loses all his power and things to burn) and lays down in ashes, dormant. He sleeps for several decades, growing back his fur, overgrowing with plants and moss, until something wakes him up again. Place where he decides to rest always has unnatural warmth and huge amount of greenery around.  Its not guaranteed that he will be enraged again instantly, after waking up most of the time he feels apathetic to everything around him, unless someone\something purposefully threatens him. Just awakened Wrath is slow, tangled in roots and overgrowth, stays in one place for days until he is ready to move on in search of something long forgotten. 

[escaronarts]

Final set of photos of the lady Soul Dancer before she dissapear again, to continue her task, the purpose of her existence; to find and give shelter to lost and broken souls, healing them so that they can reincarnate once more.

[maxyvert]

🌊🐠 Ocean 🐠🌊

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