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inktober designs - day 11: Rescue
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Sarah McKenzie
@sarahdraws8.bsky.social
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Creature Artist. Dragons | Monsters | Robots I also draw characters/illustrations on occasion. (fantasy & sci-fi) LINKS & COMMISSIONS: sites.google.com/view/sarah-draws-links
![Creature Concept: Leg-Winged Dragon (green version 1)
Digital artwork of a green dragon flying on a black background. The lower half of the background is misty and filled with burning ashes.
The dragon has short, carnotaurus-like arms, and two sets of large back legs, which function as wings, and sport large membranes that attach to the dragon's tail and side. They are similar to the legs of sharovipteryx in structure.
Though the dragon is primarily green, it has black and orange stripes of different sizes and proportions on its tail, torso, neck, and face. The arms and toe membranes are solid orange in color. Its 2 pairs of horns are brown, and they stick up straight from the head before beginning to curve backwards at about halfway up their length.
Art by @sarahdraws8.bsky.social.
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![Illustration: Stormfront (Sci-fi Art)
Illustration of a pale orange stone desert, with mountains in the background. Behind the mountains looms a churning, deep blue stormfront, which is split by a single bolt of lightning that reaches to a nearby floating island, and from there to the nearest peak. Dust blows violently across the landscape in front of the storm, and in the foreground, two dragonfly-like mechs perch on some eroded rock formations. They have scrap solar panels for wings, and twin cockpits for eyes.
Two characters stand on top of the nearest mech; one sitting upon the wing rotator joint, and the other looking towards the storm through a pair of binoculars. In the further mech, the pilots remain in the eyeball cockpits. One appears to be viewing a holographic display within the glass, and the other is looking over his shoulder, eyes shaded, at the storm.
Art by @sarahdraws8.bsky.social.
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![Creature Concept: Southern Quilled Seraph (fictional avianoid)
Digitally drawn concept art of a bird-like monster design. The creature faces right on a dark plane. It is sitting with its wings partially folded, but still somewhat slack. Its long tail twists upwards behind it.
Its beak and two-toed feet are yellow in color, and its eyes are bright green. Most of the feathers on its body are a warm grey shade, with a broad red stripe down its back and tail. Additionally, there is a large patch of red in the center of itis chest. Its wing feathers, as well as some scattered feathers across its body, are a shiny iridescent black. It has a bright red wattle on the underside of its head, which is patterned with black markings.
Porcupine-like quills sprout from beneath the feathers on the monster's back, as well as the backs of its wings. Along its twisted tail there are 3 more (shorter) wing-like appendages. The head has two pairs of eyes; one is large, and located on the side of the head, and the other is small, and faces forwards from a hole on the from side of the beak.
The beak is toothed, like a goose's beak, as is the animal's tongue. The beak also has a large Smilodon-like fang growth on each side. On the bottom half of the beak, a patterned crest sprouts and curves backwards between the fangs. Above the front pair of eyes on the beak, there are hornbill-like growths that shade the eyes.
Art by @sarahdraws8.bsky.social.
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![Illustration: Sunrise Dragon (fantasy illustration)
Digital artwork of a dragon's neck and head. Its scales are primarily colored a light sky blue, and its spikes and horns are gold. Many of its scales also have bright magenta regions. Its eyes are a shiny black.
Its long neck its twisted in a snake-like position, with its head facing left. Its teeth are visible on the outside of its lips, much like crocodile teeth, and its snout is tipped in a bone-like beak structure. Two of its top teeth are especially long and tusk-like, curving outwards from either side of the head. The dragon has 3 pairs of horns, the longest and thickest of which is the highest pair on the back of the head. A thick but short spike, similar in appearance to the horns, is located on the side of the head, near the back of the jaw.
3 rows of spines extend down the creature's neck, and each spine is gold in color, with a magenta base. The center row of spines is significantly taller than the others, and each spine of this row is lobed in the center. Each lobe is patterned with white and purple spots.
The dragon's environment is a cloud scene at sunrise. It consists of pastel pinks and pale purples. Some sky blue is also visible at the top of the illustration, and in the rightmost top corner the sky fades to navy blue. In front of the dragon, some pink clouds form a circular shape that frames the creature's face.
Art by @sarahdraws8.bsky.social.
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![Creature Concept: Aspidus (cyber cobra)
Digital artwork of a mechanical cobra monster. Its fanged mouth is open, and a flame shoots from it. Its eyes likewise streak flames, and two large tubes on its bottom jaw shoot out jets of smoke behind its head.
Its hood, made of reflective metal plates, is open wide to reveal a pair of laser weapons with circles of blue lightning energy spinning around them. The edges of the hood are lined with spiky, rib-like bone structures on hinges.
The metal body is coiled over itself on a rough black floor, and the tip of its tail is made up of large exposed vertebrae held together with sets of cables that run through holes drilled into the bones. Held high above the ground at the end of this chain of bones is an electrified string of metal balls. Bolts of blue lightning similar to those in the hood weapons jump from one ball to another.
The sky behind the cobra is black and filled with stars.
Art by @sarahdraws.bsky.social.
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![Creature Concept: Northern Dragon
A white dragon sits up on a snowy tundra plain. Black rocks litter the ground, and grey clouds cover the skies, which are grey with blizzard clouds. Beneath the dragon's front claw is a human skull.
The dragon has folded pterodactyl-like wings with hairy claws for fingers. Its back legs are also fluffy, and look much like the talons of a snowy owl. 3 horns grow from the dragon's head; 2 short ones from the back, and 1 longer, forked one from the center. The tail ends in a triangular barb made from the same material as the horns, and sensory bristles stick out from the length of the tail like whiskers. Similar whiskers, only shorter, are found on the cheeks and the tips of the ears.
Art by @sarahdraws8.bsky.social.
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![Creature Concept: Baldhart the Black Flame (fire dragon)
Digital artwork of a black dragon with a dull red head, neck, and chest, facing left. It stands on a bluish mirror-like surface that is lit up with streaks of blue light.
Its wings are a purplish tag color, and huge compared with the rest of its body. Its tail is also elongate, and is patterned with rows of spiky barbs that can also be found on its neck.
3 pairs of horns grow from its head, two on the top, and one that curves around like a tusk on the back of its jaw. A short beard of black fur grows from the bottom of its head, longest under the tip of the chin.
Art by @sarahdraws8.bsky.social.
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![Illustration: Ice Dragon
Digital artwork of an ice dragon from the shoulders up. It is made of an icy blue material, and it is covered in straight icicle-like spikes and horns. Especially long horns protrude from its brow, above each eye. Horns of similar length form a ring around the back of the head, beyond a translucent triceratops-like frill. The monster is glaring at the viewer with its many sharp teeth displayed, and the eyes and open mouth glow yellow slightly.
Art by @sarahdraws8.bsky.social.
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![Speedpaint: Chicken Raptor
Digital artwork of a the face of a feathered brown Dromaeosaurid.
Its head feathers have orange dots on them, and some have splashes of blue as well. A ring of longer vulture-like feathers around the neck are gold on the edges as well.
Its neck is sharply bent, so the head rests on the chest feathers, and its face is unfeathered and scaled in a brown color similar to the surrounding feathers. Its eye is small and orange, and the area around it is bare red skin like the face of a chicken. Similar red wattles are found on the edges of the face in two layers, and two small snoods sprout from either side of the chin. The mouth of the raptor is slightly open to reveal a row of sharp white teeth.
Over its shoulder, a blue sky with clouds is visible.
The main light source in the painting is sunlight, which hits the dinosaur from the back side, over its shoulder. This light shadows most of the face and mouth.
Art by @sarahdraws8.bsky.social.
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