FiddzyDesign – Concept Artwork

Bone Calcibus

The Calci are a colonial race of microscopic semi-corporeal entities that gather together in the trillions to form the Calcibus, a powerful hive mind which acts as a single voice for the colony, and as such is often viewed by others as an individual entity. In addition to this the Calcibus has the power to incorporate inanimate objects into its body, to create a projective shell for its occupants, and as means of further interacting with the corporeal world. Dozens of myths surround the Calcibus, with many cultures mistaking them for ancient golems and demonic guardians of the underworld.

The design and inspiration of the Calcibus came form some recent animal skull studies I had been doing over the last month (which I‘ll post at a latter date), as well as the mythology of the golems.

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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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Nimm Dimension Jumper

The Nimm was designed to be a lifeform that can live as both non-corporeal energy and as a corporeal humanoid being, with the additional ability of jumping between dimensions and realities. The artwork above shows the Nimm in a transition state, emerging from its non-corporeal energy state and into its physical planetary form. I actively decided against having its physical form reacting with the light form its non-corporeal form, due to the idea of its two forms existing in two different non-interactive dimensions, our world and the Nimm Dimension.

Klishish

Semi-Fun Fact: Both the Klishish and the Nimm were designed to be very Humanoid with elements of the traditional “big eyed, small gray alien” concept.

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Continuing my self directed Kaiju project I have designed three further monster characters as shown below. Like the Leeton, these three Kaiju where designed to look both realistic yet silly and to have an appearance of a man in a suit.  I was heavily inspired by the idea of them being reflected as ancient gods.

Kaiju Pharaoh ZorrticKaiju King ToobyKaiju Gulmar

Semi-Fun Fact: The name Gulmar is a cross between Gull and Fulmar two seabirds that reflect its bird like head. The rest of its bulbous body was designed by the concept of it being like a giant monster vacuum cleaner, that can both suck stuff into its body, then fire it back out again.

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These two designs came from the urge to look into a more magical and ancient world. They also came from my desire to play with texture and lighting. They were originally intended to go together in a single piece with the Mage summing his creation.

Animated RubbleZel’Nug’Noon Mage

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This is a collection of some of my “everyday aliens”. Something a very mundane and realistic sense of these galactic citizens of the space age. These illustrations were not only done to show yet more alien designs, but were also to show some costume design.

NeillickOochereem Labourer

Semi-Fun Fact: The mouth of the Oochereem was inspired by the bivalve shell of a Giant Clam. NonualNorileening

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These two nightmarish creatures were designed to be the kind of deadly and vile creatures you would not like to run into in some deep, dark and damp dungeon.

Mulood “Fungus Creeper”Abominable Leech

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These three creature designs were inspired by a random collection of objects and things, both real and fictional. Like the last post below, these three images are some of the earliest drawn from within my portfolio.

Alien Lemon Face

As the name suggests this alien character’s head was inspired by a quarter slice of lemon.

Alien Horse Detective – Hippolumbo

This alien with traditional green skin and an untraditional horse like face was an inspirational mix of a really old horse-like character design I had done as a kid and the legendary television detective Columbo.

Gharial Elite Shocktrooper

This alien soldier is a cross between the ancient Egyptian crocodile god Sobek and a species of  modern day crocodilian called a Gharial.

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These four alien creatures where designed by initially taking small attributes and features from common UK garden birds then splicing them with other animals and humanoid characteristics. Creating this hybrid collection. These illustrations are some of my earliest portfolio drawings, and some of the first images I used when experimenting with digital painting in Photoshop. It was from these that I started to refine my artistic and working style.

Alien Sphinx LionessSkateboarding Alien Spotted FlycatcherAlien WhitethroatAlien Black Grouse

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