Speculative Evolution - Blog Posts
I’ve got a bit of artblock, so I’m wondering..
Junicorn post halfway through the month lol- Northern Unicorn species from my fantasy world. It’s a relative of deer. Hope u like!
I’m brainstorming a few concepts for a potential dwarf race in my spec bio fantasy world
IK ITS LIKE THE SECOND LAST DAY OF MERMAY BUT HERE YOU GO
these are some mermaids from my unnamed spec bio world💪
enjoy
I literally have sepsis lmao 😭 but here’s more snailiens for you guys
I keep tweaking the species design oh well. Anyway the pink guy is an oc. I don’t no what to name him so I’ve been calling him Yobbo. Feel free to draw em or create ocs I’d love to see em
what is the stuff on the guys who draw the petroglyphs back
does he have coral or plants or is he just bumpy? Either way very swag
The Snailiens engage in a symbiotic relationship known as mutualism with various organisms. Among these symbionts are species like Feather-Grass Coral, Proboscis Barnacles, and Diamond Barnacles, which I'll elaborate on in a future post. This relationship is advantageous for the Snailiens as the symbiotic organisms consume parasites and dead skin, ensuring the Snailiens' cleanliness and health. In return, the symbionts receive shelter and food, creating a mutually beneficial arrangement :)
What’s the purpose of the wing-like structures on the side of this creature’s head?
sorry for the late reply to this question! the last few days have been unexpectedly busy and I haven’t had the time to respond until now 😓 I’ll do my best to respond to other asks asap
I’ll likely add some more info and detail to this once I have the time to do so :)
back at it again with wips 🫡
chronic illness has been kicking my ass as of late so I’ve been struggling to finish any art. hopefully this’ll do in the mean time. I’m not sure if I’ll finish it or not but here you go nerds ✨ have this lil’ dinosaur alien guy holding a carved bone knife
ps: thanks for all the recent interactions with my posts. it truely makes my day and fuels me to strive to create more. I can’t express how much I appreciate it :)
I started this a while ago, but entirely forgot this existed so it was never finished or posted unfortunately :/
It’s one of the “snailiens” painting details on a temple. The artwork above him depicts a snailien below a glyph of the sun.
Anywho, thank you all so much for all the love on my previous posts. I truely appreciate every interaction with my art :))
Consider yourself booped 🤷
✨ the little alien dudes return ✨
here’s one showing off his newly-carved artwork. he is very proud. the image depicts the symbol of the sun with extending rays over an egg sac- it symbolises fertility and such
and I also sketched a bit to show how the tool is made
another unnamed alien species 💪
Little alien worm design I did ages ago and forgot to post— whoops
The Green Sky of my Xenoplanet
The original reasoning for making the sky of my Xenoplanet green was so it would contrast against the magenta plants. This worked for me at the time, but now I realize that green is not a natural color for a sky to be, even on an alien planet. The solution to this problem? Sky Plankton!
The atmosphere is filled with photosynthetic microorganisms that have the ability to float in the air.
They do this by having an extremely large (relatively speaking) surface to glide on. They also have a very low mass when compared with other microorganisms due to the small size of their “body”.
Members of this microorganism species tend to be about 120 micrometers long. There is little variation among the species as their balance in the air is extremely delicate. The slightest change can result in them toppling to the surface. Notice how small the body is, taking up almost a sixtieth of the total area. This makes them much less complex than waterborne microorganisms. Also, that is not a nucleus in the center of the organism, as this is a prokaryotic species. Instead it is the one and only photosynthesizing organelle.
To perform cell division the single parent cell begins to thicken its gliding surface and body. It also duplicates its photosynthesizing organelle. Soon after this, the cell will perform mitosis. The cell will horizontally split in the middle, ensuring that both of the daughter cells have a sufficient gliding surface. This process is fairly unreliable and will potentially result in the parent cell or one/both of the daughter cells tumbling to the surface. However, this method is their only option. This species has not gone extinct because the amount of bacteriophages and other predators of the organism are extremely infrequent in open air when compared to water. Because of this, the net reproductive rate is positive.
Thank you for taking the time to read this, I hope you enjoyed it! Also, sorry I disappeared for a bit. Virtual school just started and it has been a rough adjustment. I’m doing okay though, thanks to my glorious friends. How many? Four :) Do they text me often? No :) Ugh, I need to stop whining. Sorry for venting; if you stopped reading here I do not blame you.
Next time I’m planing on creating more flora and fauna for the surface of my planet. I’m very excited to talk more about these microorganisms in the future, especially how they impact the environment of the planet. I think it will be extremely interesting to talk about how the surface organisms respond to the constant “snow” of dead and living sky plankton, which represent a source of energy. However, in the meantime I’m going to focus on smaller stuff (well, not literally). Please feel free to comment. Thank You and Goodbye :)
The creature seen above inhabits the grasslands of my alien world (seen here). I’ve been informally calling them “hoppers” but they don’t really have an official name. I’m probably going to keep up the trend of having nameless creatures in the future as I’m awful at naming things.
Anyways, back to the hoppers! They are a unique species that has several adaptations to allow them to survive and thrive in their expansive environment. Four of these adaptations are listed and explored in further detail below. I hope you enjoy reading about these creatures :)
1. Size- Excluding antennae, most adult hoppers are about the size of a large rabbit, however they are more upright. The length a hopper’s antennae average at about half the height of the hopper, however antennae length varies wildly among different members of the species.
When hoppers are born they only weigh a couple ounces, but they grow fast. Most hoppers become full fledged adults in about 15 months and they tend to live for about 9 years in the wild.
2. Locomotion- Another similarity hoppers have with rabbits their mode of movement. They take bounding leaps with their back pair of legs and use their front pair of legs to catch themselves. This allows them to achieve remarkable speeds to escape predators.
3. Diet- Hoppers almost exclusively feed on the near limitless grass of the plains. To eat it, they pull several blades of grass out of the ground with their strong front pair of legs. They then pass the grass into their arms and then their mouth. The mandibles on either side of a hopper’s mouth help move grass into the mouth while also tasting the grass to ensure it isn’t rotten or filthy. This will leave the mandibles dirty, so hoppers will frequently clean them with their arms.
4. Antennae- The two pairs of antennae found on a hopper’s head are very sensitive to movements in air flow, however each pair detects different things. The shorter pair on the side of the head are more sensitive to sound waves. This allows the hoppers to hear loud noises around them, however their hearing isn’t very refined as they don’t have an eardrum (or ears). The longer pair are more sensitive to wind and humidity. This allows the hoppers to detect coming storms. This ability to detect storms is so accurate (and storms on this planet so dangerous) that many other species have evolved to flee areas when they see hoppers doing so, making the hoppers an important warning system in many grassland ecosystems.
Thank you for taking the time to read all this! :D Please feel free to ask questions about the creatures or planet, I’d love to answer them! I’m probably going to take a break from creating creatures and get back to more traditional art, however I still have many ideas for my planet that I hope you’ll enjoy. Also, please tell me if the writing is hard to read or if there are any typos. Writing is not my strong suit.
Added some creatures to my alien planet, so I guess it’s an official thing now. I should probably give the planet a name, I got no ideas right now though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ However, I do have a lot decided about the creatures’ biology. I’ll probably make a follow up post with a few more illustrations. For now, I hope y'all enjoy this. Please feel free to comment, thank you for stopping by. :)
An old All Tomorrows oc that I found and decided to redesign
Modular guys who decided they wanted to be a centaur dino
Alien design + Mutual affection
The characters shown here are Swish and Belle, and they are very fond of each other!
Belle is a Crown
Crowns belong to @charseraph
Some alien ideas + a new character! Her name is Cleo and she works with transporting goods accompanied by her pet, Bandit. I imagine that the Unibrasids, the species Cleo is, have met humans and are relatively friendly with each other.
What Belle’s markings look like + outfits
Crowns belong to @charseraph
Hey everyone. Haven’t posted in a while. But I just thought I’d just dump some recent sketches of mine here.
OK so these 3 are concept sketches for an alien species I didn’t end up fleshing out that much cause I got distracted with other things…
And these are sketches for my version of catfolk! I tried to make them look like they actually evolved from felines. And I’m not the best at drawing skeletons, but, hey, I tried!
These 3 pages are sketches I did trying to figure out what seadrakes (a silly creature i made up the other day) look like. Seadrakes are basically dragons if they didn’t fly but could swim pretty good. That’s all I have for now
And as a matter of fact, these are the very sketches that inspired seadrakes! haha i’m very proud of myself
Anyway that’s all I have for now. But I do have more sketches in my gallery so let me know if you want a part 2!