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Name: Z.A.R.A: Zealous Arbiter Revising Actuality Pronouns: Any / None Physical Appearance: It is challenging to pinpoint how to describe ZARA's appearance due to their forms constantly changing. There are a few repeated forms it can be identified through, but the inconsistency of shapes proves difficult to identify them. ZARA has been observed shifting between aspects of the following forms: an uncanny antelope-like centaur, a dragon, a centipede. The tissue that fabricates their framework appears Material, but in effect it is forged from myriads of elements. Thin yellow eyes are the only constant aspect between the remodeled forms. The Body: A constantly flowing and alternating form that meshes nature with variable construction. Fantasies turned to flesh. The Flesh: Due to entities ceaselessly redesigning, their piece of the Astral is a cavernous maze. Bodies of Flesh, which are slices of fantasy. Bio: The Zealous Arbiter Revising Actuality is a high-level thoughtform that came about from the dawn of time, or at least their version of time, when the first ideas of a fantasy world came into creation. Fantasy is held in the highest power to them; in fact, it is the only power to them. Reality holds no will over them, though their ideals are infringed upon within the Raw from other thoughtforms and constructs. The things that were made in the image of reality’s taunts and tortures that neglect the True Flesh are the enemies of ZARA. They are boisterous, in both appearance and voice. Their voice booms inside of any room, and if you talk to them directly it will feel as if there is a loudspeaker held right next to your ears. Similar to their voice, their appearance is loud, and their piece of the raw is deafening. It takes a truly skilled astralnaut to not get lost in the maze that is the Arbiter’s Lair, their Piece of Reality. The objective of this thoughtform is similar to others: expand territory. The motives behind this seem to be based on encompassing all realities into True Flesh.
Sketches of my OCs ZARA and Vi. ZARA is the one with horns and Vi is the one in astronaut-looking gear. Vi is a writer who lives a mostly tame life until they unknowingly transport into the Astral realm. Vi initially struggles to leave and ends up trapped in a dimension too horrific for a person to live in. After escaping, Vi continues to visit the Astral Realm, as the stories they are able to create based on their visits end up selling well. ZARA is a shape-shifting thoughtform that resides in the Astral Realm. Vi stumbles upon ZARA after he completed many escapades throughout the realm, leaving less competitors and more room for True Flesh. With no enemies left nearby to challenge, ZARA goes through a lengthy amount of time filled with boredom-- but luckily, Vi shows up. Vi ends up being a reluctant companion to ZARA and her shenanigans, and tries avoiding ZARA whenever possible. But eventually ZARA & Vi form a lasting friendship later on, as Vi is able to gain stories from ZARA for publishing, and ZARA is able to enjoy Vi's company.
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Hummingbird Horse Creature
I remember spending quite a few hours on this one trying to perfect it. Nothing is ever perfect, but it came out nicely.
Who is she…?
I’ll figure out how to post on tumblr eventually hello
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“This is outrageous. I’m the one who found that pup in the dead of night, the one who nursed her back to living, and yet she’s constantly plastered to Astarion’s hip as if he were her birth mother. I bloody well understand birds of a feather flock together but I deserve a little more recognition, do I not? Gods. If he wasn’t so good to Bella, it’d be easier to be mad. Don’t tell him I said that though.” - Tav probably idk
Hakiri!! I haven't drawn any birdpeople in almost a year, it's nice to get back to them. The helmet design is subject to change, though - I might make it a little more Spartan in style. :-)
Rilicai in the rain. Inspired by how rainy it is where I live at the moment. Rain is pretty common where she lives as well, but she doesn’t normally go to the forest - most of her species live in or on mountains.
Four Kerilone outfits for various occasions. Dyes are not very common and quite hard to make, so most everyday clothes are undyed as in the winter outfit. However, red and blue dye - red from a plant, blue from various shellfish - are available. Kerilone courting takes place in the summer. The Kerilone are protandrous hermaphrodites, which means they all hatch male and gain the ability to become female upon reaching maturity. Females are larger than males, with darker colouring, and are less agile but stronger than males. Every year in winter the Kerilone shed their summer coats and grow new, white and fluffy winter coats (not shown in the picture), as well as losing their sexual characteristics as well as their ability to reproduce - the winters are very harsh, so all of their energy is needed simply to survive. After the winter, young adults can become either male or female: they have a modicum of choice in the matter, but it is largely down to environmental influences. However, as they age they lose the ability to become male and remain female for the rest of their lives. Like most Earth species they do not go through a menopause, however the average amount of chicks a Kerilone will rear in their lifetime is only about ten.
So... My first actual post on this account! This is Rilicai, a Kerilone (race of vaguely equine sophonts) that I've been designing recently. She lives on a swampy planet orbiting a M-Class star.
Train Chaser
A being discovered after travel through unstable areas by train became popular. It chases down anything on rails using its tendrils to grab and anchor itself to the backmost train car. Cutting it off with its jaws and replacing it, luring people to an untimely demise. If this doesn't work, it will simply tear the locomotive apart car by car until nothing remains.
Another biblically accurate angel, dudes. Hope ya like this bitch (人 •͈ᴗ•͈) <333
Litol ghost
I still do art, the tragedy is that I'm a lazy fuck with third world problems taking my attention ✌️😔
Still, enjoy this demon lady I took the love and time to draw. Love you all, hope yall are having a nice day <333
I been planing on posting this creature a long time ago and I finally kicked my ass to do it and finish it. Here ya go!!
The Hooded Maid:
This mermaid received its name thanks to the delicate membrane like hair that covers half of its head making it look like a fleshy hood. The small nodes that conform the neuronal system works also as the source of red light that shines in the deep sea, making this creature invisible to predators. What may look like a pair of eyeballs in its face are actually two fatty organs similar to the Melon organ found in whales and dolphins, making it able to use echolocation to find smaller pray. The membrane also works as a web that enhance the reach of the echolocation and helps to swim smoothly in the darkness.
Wait for more facts of the next mermaid. My take on this Mermay (▰∀◕)ﾉ
Heeey I'm still working on funguary, even though it's March already :D 16 out of 28 done, and I will complete it sooner or later Sarcosphaera genus, false chanterelle, trogia venenata (their alt. name is literally "little white mushroom" like what?) and octopus stinkhorn
Sorry for being slow with funguary, I will complete it but not in time Another 4 entries - devil's fingers, shaggy mane, ghost mushroom (both in glowing and usual look) and tiger tricholoma
Another 4 funguary entries! Cryo vine (this is NOT a real life fungi - it's a plant from Borderlands: TPS that looks like mushroom), puffball, turkey tail, bleeding tooth All of them except first one - revisited 2024 prompts :]
First 4 funguary entries united with one color scheme Lions mane, brain mushroom, split gill and coral fungi
affected by memes about alien cats so I want to make my own Glorp some rough ideas from my sketchbook, the only thing I am happy with - head design, the rest is about to be changed drastically
The more I draw and the further my progress goes - the more time I need to draw. So I've come to realization that I need double amount of time for art challenges if I want to participate in one. Just can't simplify and fast pace art, it doesn't feel like I've achieved something if I rush everything. So I'll be careful next time choosing the most interesting art challenges in the bunch. And I had a lot of fun with funguary :) Here is the last bunch of fungi, and not so much, fellas
more fungi guys still I have last 8 entries to make
second week of funguary, long overdue
I am far behind the funguary, but I still wanna finish it Here are first 7 prompts of fungi based critters
This entry turned out a bit differently, so I’ll post them separatelly
Last Funguary entries They’re a bit all over the place, but in the end I’ve got a bit tired of just anthro critters Anyway, that was fun
Getting close to the last prompts
