DSG 1363: Creature/Tech • UNDERSEA LAB EXAMINES STRANGE, NEWLY DISCOVERED, MEGA-FAUNA

[William b. Hand]

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[ Somewhat connecting to the current run of creature/character/environment etc. of-the-week "DEEP:UnderWater Utopia (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=125901)" thing that's afoot, I'm gonna slant topics in that direction. ]

[ Just to be clear, "Fauna" is a word that refers to animal life. ]

[ ...And "Mega-Fauna" refers to large animal life. ]

[ :) ]

Creature/Tech • UNDERSEA LAB EXAMINES STRANGE, NEWLY DISCOVERED, MEGA-FAUNA
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[Noiram]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v672/Tranoiram/lavaplant.jpg
a giant plant the grows overtop of underwater volcanos encasing the lava within the leaves and eventually turning it to stone, once petrified the stone shatters releasing millions of spores to drift the current to the next magma source it finds 40 min painter
admittedly I miss read the brief as magma flora but decided to post it anyways with my original thought on the picture instead of changing the "plant" to a rooted creature. sorry

[shiNIN]

Noiram: interesting idea, but... it's "flora", not "fauna"...

[Lotta]

here's my take on the theme...
is it a pig? is it a dolphin? is it a dog? a cat? a veery ugly mermaid?
You decide ^^,
I made this with the gimp for a change, struggling to befriend the unfriendly interface, we're slowly starting to get along better, the open souce code enfant terrible and I. *bullshit bullshit*
Ugh! I just noticed an ugly dark stripe in the right edge of the picture! just ignore it, okay? :P
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn184/Lotta_90/sketch_sea-animal_laboratory.jpg

[Arteater]

http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs30/i/2008/141/a/5/DSG_1363_by_arteaterproductions.jpg

[Jaimè]

Nice one arteater
half life sprung to my mind when i saw it with those big fish things in black mesa
:D

[erniesthings]

Nice topic.

Worked on and off for about half the work day.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg154/erniesthings/dsg1363.jpg

[longineus]

about an hour and a half in painter

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/longineus/seacreature.jpg

[liquidjack]

approx. 30min. All the time I have today.

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o186/liquidjack/dsg520.jpg

[Chuckcamo]

http://psychostrat.com/pics/MEGA-FAUNA.jpg
may go back and change the undersea lab??... ah well/...%$#

[maths82]

sweet colours Noiram
just saw Psychostrat 's, beautiful, as usual, maybe the lab has too similar silhouette to the fish to read strongly against them? still dead pretty though
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/math04/dailysketchgiantfuana.jpg
40 mins painter

[Howie]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v676/Internalcow/UNDERSEALAB-1.png

[Chuckcamo]

Thanks maths82, think your right about the silhouette... maybe it needs more edge shape silhouette.... However, yours is a MEGA MEGA MEGA-FAUNA "maths82" :), liking the diver perspective with lab concept.

Howie and Arteater, http://www.conceptart.org/forums/images/ca_icons/thumbsup.gifhttp://www.conceptart.org/forums/images/ca_icons/thumbsup.gif perspective from the inside.

[razorbjc]

hmmm, i'm starting to get the quality of brushwork that i was going for. :yayca:

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk27/razorbjc/megaFauna.jpg

[Rusty_01]

I saw this thread earlier today and thought it would be cool to add to it. Here's what I came up with. The "lab" is absent but everything else is there.
http://bp2.blogger.com/_u8sQ28O-KcU/SDRWgsUO2eI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/66FiyWfy7Wk/s1600-h/Rusty_Megafauna.jpg


IMAGE LINK (http://bp2.blogger.com/_u8sQ28O-KcU/SDRWgsUO2eI/AAAAAAAAAJ8/66FiyWfy7Wk/s1600-h/Rusty_Megafauna.jpg)

[wizob]

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e319/wizob/underwatermonstercropcopy.jpg

Some cool takes. I particularly like phycostrat and maths82's. Nice use of colour.

[scho81]

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a126/scho81/MegaFauna.jpg

Here's my entry. I spent little under an hour on this one.


Noiram.. you gave me a great idea. I remember seeing something on the discovery channel about hydrothermal environments on the ocean floor. something I kinda went with.
razorbjc... I love your view on this topic. I think you could have thought outside of a crustacean, but I love the fact of something getting lifted into an examining bay. cool.
psychostrat... nice job with the coral. I like your color choice. I know how hard it was to try to produce a different sort of marine lab.. I agree that it has the same sort of silhouette value as the fauna. Good job overall.
rusty_01..after posting my image.. I saw your image link. very nice. I like your sense of scale. good color choice as well. I would've wanted to see the figures maybe a little closer to the camera. great job conveying the theme.

[ZoneZero]

i've gone very deep into the sea ^^
http://strategy-investor.de/mgz10/dsg1363.jpg

oC4, 25 mins


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scho81: the animal has a nice organic structure
razorbjc: interesting approach
Psychostrat: stylish
Noiram: the colors dont give a underwaterish feeling

sry too lazy to comment all ~~

[Hamsta]

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/8064/1363deepseafaunabakfh0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Kezrek]

First time doing this, it was fun. Unfortunately, I only have Adobe 2.0, so there is no good brush modifier. The paiiiin.

~20 min. A very large, seemingly carnivorous whale. Evolution took this species up to the next level in regards to their eternal battles with giant squid..:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v435/Kezrek/whail2.png

[asaru]

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g79/asaru01/unsel01.jpg

[Virinun]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1772559#post1772559

[torazine]

http://i288.photobucket.com/albums/ll171/torazine/200805211.jpg

[HunterKiller_]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v465/HunterKiller_/DSG1363.jpg

[Lotta]

Longineus: that is a very large animal... really gets you thinking how it might "continue"...
asaru: they look like candy, slightly cute (to me) , but the copper thingy at the top is nice
Kezrek: Welcome to the dsg, I'm kinda new here myself too. Nice piece. I like how the whale looks.
Virinun: he looks really happy
scho81: nice and dark :) I love the colours
You all have really fine pieces. keep drawing

[goran]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v17/smogyboy/sketchbook/behemoth.jpg

[Piecemaker]

boaa great stuff here. my favs so far are psychostrats, gorans and howies.

anyway here is my try
tried the bioshock color palette:-)

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh57/piecemaker_2/SketchUnderwaterLab.jpg

[ExiledRed]

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w180/ExiledRed/krakena50.jpg

[Sudsy]

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn191/SudsySutherland/Daily%20Sketch%20Group%20Sumissions/DSG1363_22MAY08.jpg

[goran]

Piecemaker-thank you very much ,yours is cool to.
Sorry guys for the size ,I am trying to resize my stuff.Cheers

[SteFlack]

Turned into more of a city under attack than a research lab, still fun to do.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v35/Psyence/DSG_1363.jpg

[benkashmir]

i actually missed this one somehow, another great topic.

great entries so far.

piecemaker - that's great.
goran - wow, alot of effort for that good result, respect!
torzain - really great viewer position!
psychostrat - beautifull.

heres mine..

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n229/benkashmir/deepfaunafinish2.jpg

[c4l3b]

blegh
15 min. unimaginative.
http://www.thebrickroomonline.com/BLARGH/fish.jpg