New Character Designs

Just a smattering of new character work that I've done recently.   I love drawing reptile forms and textures, and I love pig-based characters and the 1700's!

Brontotherium Caricature

 Here's a caricatured Brontotherium I sculpted for Weta Workshop.   It's an older piece, but I think it holds up relatively well, though I think if I did one today I would make the head much smaller to emphasize the girth of the body.   Hopefully more prehistoric mammals will happen for the future...

Languish

This is part of a potential future series.  I'm interested in exploring creatures that take inspiration from sources other than animals, and this is among my first attempts to explore psychological/emotional states using creatures.

Studio shots

Some nicer, studio shots of these guys.   Photography by Tas Limur.

"The Patron Saint of Hornets"

New Drawings

Little Softshell Kappa

This is the soft shell variety of the Kappa.  Like other Kappa species, it is considered a delicacy.

Barrabas LockJaw

Barrabas Lockjaw, who is neither beast nor devil, haunts the garden where Mankind’s dreams are grown.   Desperation and Futility are his harvest, and with Bring-Down, his hope-killing scythe, he cleaves through the goals of men and women before they can blossom.

Thaal Hvark-Fetel

Thaal Hvark-Fetel is the Time Spider and Mayhem Spinner.   The threads of his web are panic and anxiety-with his gibbering abdomen and poisonous gaze, he has been at the center of chaos since thinking began.

The Ziz

The Ziz, according to Hebrew lore, is the Father of all Birds.   The Ziz is so huge that one flap of its wing blots out the sun.  The bottom image illustrates the larval form of the Ziz- it begins life as a sort of land-dwelling fish.

More beasts inspired by Princess and the Goblin: Goblin Sheep and others

More from Goblin Market

Satyr Hollow

Rubber

Crabsicle

A Double-Jawed Coastal Grixx enjoying his afternoon repast.   And why not?

Goblin Livestock

Designs inspired by George MacDonald's Princess and the Goblin (1872).   This book has some of the most evocative creature descriptions I've ever read, when describing the animals that the goblins of the story keep.   Truly crazy stuff.  The idea is that the goblins themselves were once human beings who, due to some disagreement with their human king of long ago, began living underground, and then began to devolve over many generations.   The livestock and occasional wild animal they brought with them to live below also began to physically unravel through the unnatural underground conditions, and mix among themselves (not to mention the goblins), to the point where one could not tell what original creature each being descended from, and that their shapes were more akin to outlandishly grotesque, living versions of children's drawings than to anything the natural world could produce.   Incidentally, the book is available to read free online, and the chapter concerning these monstrosities is called "The Cob's Creatures".    Interesting to note is that, while the Princess and the Goblin is meant as a religious allegory (I believe it actually predates the Narnia books), MacDonald introduced some rudimentary notions of natural selection/evolution as the concept behind his insane goblin beasts.