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Sl'askia 05-15-2002 09:34 PM

To fellow artists out there: a challenge
 
Yes a challenge. I came up with critter description today...and thought I would ask you all to sketch what you think it looked like. Here is the narritive that has it's description (yes I wrote this):

Twelve feet tall it stood and the thing looked like something out of ones nightmares. The head was black with two glowing yellow eyes and a set of orange rams horns. The lower jaw protruded from the upper and sported two large yellowish boar-like tusks. The rest of the head looked almost like it was nothing but a charred and blackened skull. Neck of a horse and covered with a brown lion-like mane, which covered part of its shoulders and continued down most of the back. The arms were muscular and tawny brown in color. The paws a of big cat were its hands, claws extended and looked to be poisoned tipped. Torso was wolf-like and orange in color. The legs was black like a goats, only on either side of the hooves were two extra toes like a komodo dragons. The tail resembled a saltwater crocs and was a moss green. It also had the wings of a falcon, which the feathers were mainly green with blue-green spots.
It snarled at the two trembling figures before it; black smoke curling out of its mouth and nostrils from the hellfire that raged with in it. Then it roared, a roar that shook them to their very soul...
They bolted then, hoping to reach the forest before it decided to attack. They did but it did not matter; it came after them, plowing through the trees as if they were nothing but blades of grass. One of them tripped and fell, his companion forced to leave him behind as the beast was too close behind. There were terrified screams, then silence, silence other then the panicked footfalls of the remaining party.
He entered another clearing and listened. No other sounds other then his own breathing came to his strained ears. Then a shadow passed over him and he looked with horror as the beast landed on all fours with the grace of a cat in front of him. He tried to run again, but his legs were frozen and not obeying him. The beast stalked forward, its tusks now strained red with the blood of his fallen comrade. It took it's time: it knew he couldn't run now. Closer and closer it came with each step; he was starting to feel the heat of the flame within this beast.
"I'm sorry..." he managed to mutter and the beast seemed to laugh. Then it swung one it's paws and he saw nothing after...but the blackness of death.

I have already made my own sketch and got it pretty close to how I envisioned it in my head. I will post it later on. Anyone want to try it?

Edit: A detail I should have put in...the head is a rams (like the horns)

One, Two, Middlesboogie 05-16-2002 06:50 AM

I'd love to have a go! I have to set off for school in about 10 mins (got a revision class; I'm on study leave for the dreaded GCSEs), but I'll draw it when I get home for lunch. I'll try to post it today.

One, Two, Middlesboogie 05-16-2002 10:16 AM

Here ya go:



The head came out more leonine than I intended, even though I had a picture of a sheep to copy from. I also couldn't get it to look anywhere near like a skull, either, so it'll just have to have an ordinary bonce.
I also took a bit of artistic license with the tail; I tried to give a sort of hellish fire effect to its whole body, hence all the frondy bits.
And PI ate the spots on its wings... grrrrr...

pinkgoth2 05-16-2002 01:53 PM

Not colored, but here it is. Uncolored, though. *shy with colors v_v*

paramiteabe 05-16-2002 03:02 PM

I can draw something simple like that but I would need your e-mail address to show what my conception is.:fuzblink:

One, Two, Middlesboogie 05-16-2002 03:05 PM

Why? Anyone can set up a PI account.

Jacob 05-16-2002 06:41 PM

When people are finished with Drags do any of you think you could draw either:

Tobias or Arias?

If not its ok. Ta-Ta y'all!!

Sl'askia 05-16-2002 09:32 PM

You can just put it up as an attachment like pinkgoth2 did paramiteabe. (btw nice pics TF and pinkgoth2)
*will wait a little longer before putting her's up*

Sl'askia 05-17-2002 11:09 PM

*since no one else seems to be replying* Here is mine.

http://communities.msn.com/_Secure/0...hChaosform.jpg