FiddzyDesign – Concept Artwork

These two new creature designs both portray potentially dangerous and hazardous giants, that while destructive serve roles which are both beneficial and vital to the protection and sustainability for their homeworld’s in the long run.

The Giant Rencharon of Renchar

The Giant Rencharon are five legged arthropods found on the moonworld of Renchar, a large rocky and metal rich world orbiting the massive gas giant, Nixdra III. The Giant Rencharon’s most distinctive feature is its large abdomen mounted naturally evolved heated plasma canon, a highly powerful canon, even when compared by technological standards. The primary purpose of this canon is to shoot down potential predators, however they can also use it to blast meteorites and asteroids out of the sky when Nixdra III annually passes through the edge of the systems largest asteroid belt. Its because of the Giant Rencharon that Renchar has been labelled a red listed hazardous world, with the Giant Rencharon often shooting ships clean out of the sky, mistaking them for incoming asteroids, which while inconvenient for mining corporations it allows natural protection of the worlds rich and precious resources.

The Ka Ryygel of Telus V

The Ka Ryygel or “Forest Harvester”, are a long lived and colossal species of gentle giants found on the planet Telus V, where every 600 years or so they all simultaneously awaken from  hibernation and consume almost 50% of the planets thick forests, pulling the trees from the ground with their expendable arms, then roasting all plant matter in a furnace like stomach, before filtering through the remaining ash and charcoal for precious nutrients in an additional two secondary stomach chambers.

When interplanetary settlers first encountered the Ka Ryygel they initially saw them as a global threat and bid to destroy them. However they soon realised that these herbivorous giants actually played an integral role in the planets ecology, in a similar fashion to the forest fires here on Earth, clearing land to promote new growth, then fertilising it with their waste materials and the undigested seeds, that the Ka Ryygel spray from the tip of their long hollow tail.

Semi-Fun Fact: The Ka Ryygel “Forest Harvester” was originally designed for the ConceptArt C.O.W challenge #173 – Forest Harvester, a topic idea that was my own suggestion.

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Recently I have decided it would be very beneficial to take a short break from producing new character and creature designs and instead take some time to reinforce and strengthen my drawing skills by going back to basics and working over the winter on some anatomy studies. Something I have not done properly for awhile now, and would greatly benefit my future work. The Images below are some of the rough sketches I have been doing, focusing particularly on skeletal structures, particularly skulls.

Four Digit Alien Hand – Anatomy StudyHuman Skeletal Studies – Rib Cage & Hand BonesHuman Skeletal Studies – Skull & Leg BoneHuman Skeletal Study – Leg BoneTyrannosaurus Rex – Skull & Anatomy StudiesMoray Eel – Facial Anatomy Study

I find that doing these kinds of studies to be extremely beneficial, allowing me to flex my drawing muscles and  develop as an artist. Over the next few weeks I shall continue to do more of these studies and begin to incorporate them into new designs.

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Po Po Nuff – “Koala Crab”

The rather bizarre Po Po Nuff was a somewhat random creation made from my desire to create something cute, yet creepy. Its alien appearance draws its inspiration from many real world animals including koala’s, bushbabies and even species of small single clawed dinosaur called a Shuvuuia.

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Psittacodu

Semi-Fun Fact: The Psittacodu, appearance is based on a genus of parrot beaked Dinosaurs known as Psittacosaurus.

Jeepeg

Semi-Fun Fact: The Jeepeg’s design came from mixing elements from both an eastern world dragon and a ferret. Its name, Jeepeg, is a pun on the file format, JPEG.

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Taking a Kaiju break, I decided to revisit, redraw and revamp an old character design. The outcome is the newly named Black-backed Stilt a dinosaur like creature based on a real world wading bird called a Black-winged stilt, one of my personal favourite animals. This new piece shows an adult female with her child, that still sports its juvenile plumage and colouration.

Black-backed Stilt’s – Mother & Child

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A slightly more experimental piece, this battle scene was originally drawn as a very rough pencil sketch then scanned into Photoshop were it was coloured,  edited and sharpened. This piece features my Mulood “Fungus Creeper”, a creature originally designed as a dungeon dwelling demon, rather than a Kaiju. However I liked the design of the Mulood so much I decided to reuse it again here.

Ba’Bate vs. Mulood

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These are the first character and landscape pieces from my new self direct Kaiju design project. This portfolio protect resolves around the design of my own Kaiju, a Japanese’s word meaning “strange beast” or “monster”, a word often associated with the Japanese giant monster movie series such as Godzilla, Mothra & Ultraman, the inspiration for this protect. My aim is to create several of these kaiju characters, designed to look realistic yet still very cheap and silly, then to draw them within a variety of different landscapes.  The artwork below shows my first monster design, Leeton, specifically drawn to look like a man in a suit as a tribute to the original Japanese monsters.

Kaiju LeetonLeeton Forest – March of the Leeton

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While allot of my past designs were very Humanoid in their appearance, with mostly sentient alien characters. These two branch off into looking more at animalistic creature design.

Crimson Mountain Noth

Oxentrurus

Semi-Fun Fact: This Alien Anteater, Oxentrurus, draws its name from a stegosaurid Dinosaur from the Oxfordian stage called a Dacentrurus.

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