C.O.W. - #010: Sirens

[Fozzybar]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/images/cow/cow.jpg


Round #010

Topic:
Sirens

Deadline:
17.04.2005




- for any questions or help go here:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=37512

note: The deadline won't be EXACTLY after a week...it can last up to 24 hours more, i am human and have to work also, you know ;)

Post your creature for this week!

[Fozzybar]

Sirens are known from the greek mythology, basically they are defined as creatures with an appearance resulted from a mix between woman and bird. They infatuate passing seamen with their melodies...


That means feel free to make a creature, which fulfills the description above...and don't worry about the "non-humanoid" rule that hard this time *sigh*

If you have any questions regarding the topic post them here (i am sure there will be some)...

[Ostrander]

Si·ren Audio pronunciation of "sirens" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (srn)
n.

1. Greek Mythology. One of a group of sea nymphs who by their sweet singing lured mariners to destruction on the rocks surrounding their island.
2. siren A woman regarded as seductive and beautiful.

Isn't this the proper definition? I'm just curious. When you mentioned woman and bird I thought of a Harpie. I don't know maybe in some other country there are different interpretations. Not trying to be too nerdy here just trying to clarify.

[Aberrant]

This should clear up any confusion...

http://www.bartleby.com/65/si/Siren.html
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0005268.html
http://www.in2greece.com/english/historymyth/mythology/names/sirens.htm
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/ent/A0845391.html
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/s/sirens.html

This might be relevant:

" The Sirens were also beaten by the Muses in a singing competition, and their feathers therefore symbolized the muses in art."

[Ostrander]

nice!

[Fozzybar]

Thanx Aberrant!

Btw i want to mention, that an entry with a classic siren look would be very stupid...please be creative!!!

[arteric]

Which, I asssume by creative, you mean go hog wild and make relaly cool sirens with a unique twist and a creative artistic slant that makes them truly your own?

Cool, I might be able to come back on this one and get to work.

-Eric ;)

[oomgawa]

Good site with complex descriptions.

http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/SIRENS.html

[Sok N. Wett]

Doesn't rule number one says in the C.O.W. bible, page 8, first paragraph, line 4 states it "not human-like please!" Well I'm just curious that's all, cause i got some ideas for my siren, which might have some human body parts, if not i'll just make a different form altogether.

[GomenNasai]

That means feel free to make a creature, which fulfills the description above...and don't worry about the "non-humanoid" rule that hard this time *sigh*

if Foz says it's OK, it's enough to me ;)

[Sok N. Wett]

LOL sorry Foz, my ass didn't read the whole post....dumb am I

[Fozzybar]

Sometimes I think no one ever reads the rules or anything else on this forum :)

[Matt Dixon]

Had to do mine this lunchtime or I'd have missed my first COW, so time and inspiration limited for this. Sorry for the boring interpretation, Fozzy. :(

edit ( again ): Heh. Most edited post in a COW thread ever! I took this down because it was such an obvious take on the topic, but I might put her back if lots of other fishy things show up here. ( ;) ) If you're interested, you can find her here (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=42368).

[GomenNasai]

Sometimes I think no one ever reads the rules or anything else on this forum :)

:nohope: :}

[Carnifex]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/carnifex_19/sirenefinal.jpg
The Siren
One vicious creature that lures sailors and any kind of boat-lover into its home,mostly consisting of sharp cliffs. it does so by pumping air into it's "breast" and then emmiting strange and wonderful melodies through the "nipples". generally this is pleasant to hear,but not at all pleasant to see,as those "breast" shrink and wrinkle towards the end of the song. though when one of them is finished, the others continue the hum. after having brought their victim to crash,they fly down from their nest and starts feeding on the corpses. noone knows where these creatures came frome,but certain scientists believe it's the result of animal love gone too far(those damn duck lovers). others believe it's their dead grandmothers coming from heaven to haunt them,which has brought the creature the nickname "granny horror".

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ouch.my hand needs rest.hope it's not too big and the description not too long winded.i'm eagerly waiting what will follow. :) >:D

[leckronium]

it does so by pumping air into it's "breast" and then emmiting strange and wonderful melodies through the "nipples". generally this is pleasant to hear,but not at all pleasant to see,as those "breast" shrink and wrinkle towards the end of the song. though when one of them is finished, the others continue the hum. after having brought their victim to crash,they fly down from their nest and starts feeding on the corpses.

Haha, so would those be considered any relation to bagpipes? Breastpipes perhaps? :nohope: :tihi:

[Carnifex]

yup,that was the idea infact.:D

[Fozzybar]

http://www.kidomatix.com/ca/cow/cow_010_sirens_fozzybar.jpg


The Undead Flummox Siren

The species of the Undead Flummox Siren evolved from the classical Sirens of greek mythology. Like every Sirens they sing infatuating melodies to lure passing seamen...with time the danger of sirens were known amongst seamen and they protected themselves from the sirens deadly melodies by pluging wax in their ears - just like Odysseus did...now the Undead Flummox Siren tricks their victim with another phenomen...

Though their appearance is absolutely repelling as measured by human beauty standards, their wings are magical. Everything behind the wings appear in a mostly beautiful way, so the victims see a banging sexy female body. The Undead Flummox Siren is flying next to the passing ships, just a few meters away from the numbed seamen - always with her back turned to the ship...This visual impression paired with the infatuating melodies are mystifying the seamen for a certain period - time enough to turn around quickly and grab one or two of this poor wayfarers and fly away to the nest, where other sirens are waiting for the feast...

[Carnifex]

haha,this weeks c.o.w. is all about boobs and asses:D :P
edit:foz,i think she'd need more tail to navigate.

[Uziel]

<greek riddle:From across the sea they come, to listen her lovely song...>
This type of siren can take over a ship in no time.
Once she is on board she will enchant all hens on deck with her wonderful sounds. When she's got everybody under her influence she starts breaking some necks by sweeping her strong tentacles around. Then she can easely pick out the sweetest piece of man to nibble on.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v287/jarrafatti/sirene9c.jpg

[Stokes]

Jannete "pirate eater " McUmphry

Like most Sirens, Jannete loves the taste of raw pirate flesh. Unfortunately for Jan its just harder and harder to find quality pirate meat these days. Her nonfunctioning gimped wings dont really help her get around either. She basically just sits on her rock all day and sings some of her favorite Billy RaY Sirus tunes. Now everybody knows pirates cant resist them sweet Billy Ray melodies. Once them swashbucklers get ear of the music they come sailing on over. "Oh whats this, a crazy bird lady with a nice set a tits." I think Ill go ivestigate. Arrrrrrrrr them be rocks ahead. Craasssssshhhhhh. :pirate: Pirate chowder. :skull:

{edit: I added the foot and tweaked the lighting. Thanks for the feedback}

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/DrDocker/StokesSirenNew.jpg

[xia]

Nice one, Stokie! Great job on water, skin, texture...lookin good.

[Matt Dixon]

OK. I'm going to throw this into the mix even though it's a pretty unoriginal concept.

http://www.vortex.plus.com/Siren.jpg

Chromaticiae Mariahcareyum. Also known as the 'Pale Mariah', this mythical beast is famed for her ravenous appetite for seamen. Clearly, her appearance makes it difficult to attract all but the most drunken mariners into striking distance, so she lures them close with spellbinding renditions of pop tunes and hypnotic jiggling of her silvery-fleshed mammary glands that glitter in the moonlight like two C cup lighthouses.

[Carnifex]

shit i'm so fucked now. :P
small crit:everything is lit by the evening sun,except the creature.she does seem to have an independent spotlightsource. :needle:
(stokes')

[Uziel]

She is also missing a foot/claws...

[carnalizer]

My entry:
http://members.chello.se/php/sb/siren.jpg

The rare Giant six eyed rocklemming, a k a Furry siren, Sailors fear or Wetass, use potent pheromones and multifrequency vails to numb the minds of seamen. Stupefied they get drawn in and loose their lives in the wide maw of the rocklemming.

[Kaoki]

its one thing ruling out looser works, its another to refer to them as " sloppy sketches done in 5 minutes" even before it was updated it was over an hours work.



Asshat

[leckronium]

http://home.comcast.net/~leckronium/onlinestorage/siren6.jpg

For centuries Sirenows have been looked over in legends and folklore. Simply because no one knows much about them. Their full-size cousins from Greek mythology have taken a lot of the heat for crashing ships and seducing mariners. These hummingbird-sized music boxes are ten times more enchanting and more dangerous when grouped in choirs. Not only will they enchant you and cause you to wreck your ship, but will fly aboard and take your food, jewelry, and any other shiny valuables completely undetected. This leaves many seamen stumped and wondering what happened when they come out of their hypnotic sleep. No one has actually seen one so it's hard to place blame on something that looks like an ordinary bird from a short distance. But the experience afterwards is not one to compare to the beauty of it's song. It's also not clear if both the Sirenows and their cousins worked together to amass their fortune hidden throughout the island. There have also been stories telling of seamen who traveled for days with nothing on their ship just to hear the captivating melodies that give them such wondrous dreams. Unfortunately, those men are never heard from again. :^^: :painting:

[Fozzybar]

Kaoki

Please work on your entry, as it is a very quick sketch as it seems...it won't make it to the poll at this stage...

[salaryman]

Mastigoteuthis Vocalis, Song Squid or Siren. Believed to be part of the cephalopod family, ability to mimic form of its prey: mainly sea birds, fish, crustaceans and occasionally the unwary fisherman. This lure is compounded by hypnotic low level sounds that act upon the preys’ lower brain resulting in trance-like 'euphoric' state.

http://img137.exs.cx/img137/4412/sirencow5aw.jpg

Paris, 1894. Bonaparte Bon-Bon Baptiste, proprietor at the Red Cat seafood bistro was having a good summer. His clientele were braving his poorly prepared, overpriced dishes for one reason only: The Green lady.

Sitting in her tank of water normally reserved for fresh lobster this mysterious creature floated elegantly and beguiled the whole of Montmartre with her melancholic song.

But on a fateful night, one particular customer could withhold his ardour no longer: he approached the Lady's tank, her green glow reflecting in his glossy, mesmerized eyes. The lady, more accustomed to customer leftovers seized her chance and the hapless punter. In a flurry of tentacles and stagnant water she revealed her true self, and snip-snap, the customer lost his head.

This was The Green Lady's last performance. What happened to the creature we can not say, but on an interesting side note, The Red Cat had an abundance of calamari on the menu in the following week.

[0kelvin]

Salaryman, dude... that is going to be so hard to beat. Somebody's going to have to do something seriously badass to get me not to vote for you.

I want that poster!



0kelvin

[salaryman]

thanks Okelvin I appreciate that!

But don't hold your breath fellah!

Guess I should apologise for the dimensions and the seemingly randomness of that poster. I couldn't get that image out of my head though. I'm just glad I got it done! Not normally my thing, so thanks to the COW for pushing me to do it!

[Helzon]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/Helzon/darkersyreen.jpg
It has long been assumed that the those of the genus 'Elttaes" were infatuated to near obsession with the screams of men and the sound of wood grinding against stone. It was no different for the Pugetonia Revennica Horrifica, also commonly known as the Crush Siren.
The siren posseses an eerie talent of psionic mimicry. First honing in on it's prey, it plucks from long term memory the various ranges and timbres of the voices of those most loved by it's victim. And by simply vibrating great sacks of gelatinous oil that line it's throat it can reproduce perfectly every singing note. Countless scores of men aboard the fleets of flying vessels have often dropped to their doom or drifted to close to the craggy cliffs of floating islands the siren inhabits in a desperate attempt to be with those that they so painfully long for.
And once mesmerized the Crush Siren slithers upon it's prey with uncanny speed. First it devours what soft bits of humanity it can find, then in a spasmic orgy grinds the ship against the stones until little more than splinters rain down hundreds of miles to the dessicated world below.

[redehlert]

Helzon!!!! First of all - you stole my idea! Kidding, man. I love the fact that you worked with a psi-ren idea - that's exactly the direction I was going with. Great story too. I'd love to see a slight drop in background saturation and hue so as to pop out the foreground action more and also drop the blackness of the line work on the floating ship. Now I don't have to do mine! :er:
BTW - to all entries - I'm floored! Totally kickin' it!

Peace.
D

[xia]

Matt>> :bow: Love it, one of my most fav from you.

So far so great everyone, loving them. :yayca:

[Sok N. Wett]

FINAL POST


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/spyder_helix/SerpentSirenoftheSea.jpg


Serpent Siren of the Sea

Myrian was the most beautiful mermaid in the ocean, every merman would kill to have her. She was the only mermaid that had refuse to marry the Prince Pacifik, as she was in love with another. The jealous and spiteful aquatic prince seek revenge by ordering the village's witch mother to cast a spell that would enslave her forever. The spell had changed her voice only to harmonic tones that can be heard through the great ocean, causing coastal storms. Afraid to hurt the ones she loved she swam to the nearest rock formation. Her loved follow her, only to be the first victim of this trecherous curse. She tried to tell him to stay away but her voice were no more, only replace by sweet music coming out of her lips. He was too close and 4 snake like creature came out of her sides and dive into the heart of her love. There is no way to lift her cursed for she has lived through eternity, and have not found a way to kill herself. Her beauty has caused many sailors their lives for a second of fantasy. Beware the ocean for the Serpent Siren of the Sea.

[Sok N. Wett]

Salaryman are you a chief or a restaurent owner, or someone who love the Iron Chief series, cause so far both your entries talks of preparing food, and stuff, but I think it's great, I would love to cook like those guys. :)

[Fozzybar]

i won't consider not taking entries to the poll because they don't seem to be unoriginal (as far as they stick to the topic and rules)...i just don't want people posting here just for the heck of it with sloppy sketches done in 5 minutes...that's all ;)

[Mike Corriero]

Fozzy, is a pencil rendering allowd?

[vaughany_boy]

http://img177.echo.cx/img177/9189/siren9wv.jpg
Greater Rock Cameleon.
This monstrous creature has the unique ability to transform its upper body into any shape imaginable. Using telepathic abilities to read the minds of possible prey, the Cameleon decides on a form that would most likely attract this victim. Using a combination of it's disguise and it's unique vocal abilities, this creature lures lesser animals towards it and then crushes and devours them. When there is no interesting life nearby the creature hides itself and when humans near it, it transforms, so, the true form of the Cameleon's upper body is unknown. It has been speculated that this animal is the foundation for the Mythical Sirens from Greek Legend.

(uncoloured: http://img82.echo.cx/img82/8874/16april20055qy.jpg)

[leckronium]

Helzon I'm seeing vast improvements in your value structure and your use of color. This last time I looked through the forum your picture practically jumped at me which I thought was cool. I want to see one thing because to me I think this will help it even more. Your compostion needs a focal point. Your composition makes the eyes move which is good but I want to see an area where I can stop and enjoy the sights. The area where I think this should be is the headlike form in the left center with the yellow projectiles and green (eyes?). I would suggest darkening underneath where you have all the white highlites and lightening the head part. Render it twice as much as you did the other areas and I think this should get the job done. I want to see that area pop out the most. good job! :D

[Johann de Venecia]

Awesome work guys. Salaryman,and Matt, wow! Here's what I found by the Marina...

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/deceptant5/siren_devenecia.jpg

The Fishwife

The witch of the sea, this ancient beast has enticed countless men to their deaths. Bones beaneath the ocean mark the watery graves of those who fell for the Fishwife's maddening melodics. Much like the parrot, this creature has learned to imitate the human language, and delivers in song a promise of one night of lust and depravation. Often seen riding a jurassic tuna, it emerges from the boiling waves of the sea all the time mimicing the goddess Venus as seen in an old painting owned by a pirate victim. It does this in hopes of tempting the men even more through artful suggestion as well as to make up for its own apparent ugliness. This nympho's hypnotic warble coupled with words that ignite a hetero's weakness instantly causes one to fall into a trance, and helplessly make a bee line for a not-so euphoric doom.

[Helzon]

Just had to say yet another kick ass week from you guys!!

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/siren3.jpg

The song of the "red crested mask bill" is visible yet not audible until directly underneath like breath on a frosty morning painted by van gogh in a swirly mood the song hangs in the air attracting the attention of passing sailors, once the first notes are heard the sailors are compelled to follow the spiralling melody to it's source. The problem for the sailors is that the "red crested mask bill" hovers over jagged rocks waiting for it's song to bring it it's dinner.

[Shamagim]

For this week i will not name the creature ^_^, instead ill make a short pirate´s tale, please send me a PM for any typos i might have ( cause i normally get a lot)...


http://upl.silentwhisper.net/uplfolders/upload5/contest4c.jpg


........After we successfully robbed six of the ships of the queen, we were loaded with enough to retire from our days fighting on our beloved ship....We planned to pass a route that was supossed to be fordibben, not as a rule of the queen, it was a rule of the sea itself. Our overconfidence made us fearless, but not fearless enough to fight the entire queen´s armada, so we decided to cross.....

.......five days had passed since we lost the queen´s ships and entered the fordibben seas, along we encountered various wrecks of other ships that dared to do the same as us, i have to admit that the idea of turning around passed my mind while i saw all the ruined crafts, but i knew that it would seal our fate as well if we did turn, because the armada would be waiting for us on the other side for sure...

.....Today the air is weird, theres a strange sound, it was a pleasant sound if i were to describe it.. but i had a strange feeling about it...

.....We saw what appeared to be, a girl. soon we found out that she, if it is in fact a she, wasnt quite what we saw.....We felt compelled to approach, we regretted it, but we coudnt help it, the sound was to sweet, it gave us a strange calm. As soon as we were close enough, she changed completely, her limbs expanded in a hideous way, and we saw her true face.....As soon as she jumped in our ship she screamed, at least i think she did, because i coudnt tell about nothing at that time, the sound was to loud, i saw the ones closer to her when she screamed, their eyes and ears were bleeding....and of cource,they coudnt fight her at all.........She took five of our men, and killed ten with her sharp and long claws, ripping their nerves and flesh while they remained helpless because of the sound....

Me and a few of my men took some pistols from the armory, we coudnt hear anything, but we werent as helpless as the ones closer to the sound, so we started shooting, we were expecting yet another scream, but it seems she wasnt able to, the spinacles on her back must take a huge amount of air first it seems....she fled with some corpses, and some pieces of her armour remained inside the ship...

....Once it was safe again, i inspected the pieces of the armor, it was some kind of coral, constantly changing, probably the secret of her transformation...

... As we ran out of crew members we decided to turn around and surrender to the queen´s guards, but when we arrived at their location the ships were empty, i coudnt believe my luck..beside all the misfortunes i had, nobody did survived any of the dangers i faced this month..

*Thanks to Helzon for taking the time to help me with the typos ^_^

[fungi]

http://www.misterfungi.com/sketches/siren.gif

[Sok N. Wett]

LOL those nipples are hypnotizing, that's it Fungi won.

*drops down pencil and prepares Hari Kari*

[Negrotuerto]

Here is my siren, I did not have time to color it... only render it :[ sorry

http://www.carloscabrera.com.ar/images/ca_foro/sirena.jpg

The Dark Siren can be found primarly in Madero´s bay, a little fishers city near Uvasal island. This creature rarerly is seen by the local people on Madero´s bay, but can be heared when the night falls; specially on raining nights and fridays (no mondays, fridays). The signing of this ominous creature has been listened with clarity just for its victims. Little boys most of them *yes, again, they are too easy to catch* running freely on Madero's bay, specially when night falls and raining nights (kinda stupid, but they are like that on Madero's bay).

The music that the dark siren sign is so hipnotic that little kids just fall into its claws. This creature doesn't eat them right away, instead it takes away to its nest and start saving them for the winter.

In may of 2002 police found on a single dark siren nest more than 200 victims piled up. Of course, most of them was death, but police find a couple of half-eated kids alive. When a human is bitten by a dark siren has to be killed or his sons will be dark sirens too. They put eggs on little kids reproductive systems you see, specially on cute ones. That's the way they reproduce on our world.

If you are walking with your kid on Madero's bay, on a dark night, a raining night, and you hear a beautiful song on the wind; start running, if your kid can't run fast as you just forgeth about him, save yourselve. They eat small childs but attack adults too.

[Chia]

Here's my unoriginal concept... I was more focused on my techniques and colors than anything else because I don't paint very often. Other than that, after working on this for a few hours and feeling pretty tired I just decided to (sloppily) finish it off ASAP. So please excuse my in-completeness in some areas...

http://www.y4a.org/sotd/siren_final.jpg
Serenade Siren.
She can be found on the rocky shores of tropical islands during the summer. Her beautiful singing can be heard from miles away, luring sailors and weary travellers to their deaths. Despite her outward beauty during the day, at night she transforms into a large hideous beast to devour her prey.

[AmishCommy]

Helzon - I'm sorry to do this to ya dude, but i've been checking out your posts here the last few weeks and i am disapointed by your coloring. I swear dude, you have some great designs, concepts and such. Great composition, Great linework, Movement, Flow, Action everything its solid. and then you go and ruin it by slapping every color in the book on the page. I mean you're getting better and better with each post but you still have a ways to go. you slap down all these saturated colors and the piece looses its focus. You're not focusing on values at all and that just makes everything flatten out. and worst of all it distracts from an otherwise awesome illustration. I tend to struggle with this as well so this is why i'm commenting. you have some solid potential here. what i've been doing recently is I got myself a coppy of Open Canvas and I've been watching people create their illustrations from scratch. They all throw down a neutral color and work their way out from there. and looking at other work and reading books about it i leaned that the saturated colors that you use, like they're going out of style, are saved for the main focal points of the piece. What really helped me is to do a few greyscale illustrations. then take that and add one color to it. then a few others, but sparingly. Start paying attention to this and you will see your work improve tenfold. I know you got it in you man.

[redehlert]

Yep....Tiggo Bitty, a beast of lore that all scurvey sea dogs panted and dry humped over once they heard the melodic lure and navigated within sight of those huge racks! Tiggo flaunted and teased those spellbound, foolish mortals until they racked themselves (figuratively and literally) on the rocks. Dinner served. Arrrrrrrr!

http://www.cognitionstudio.com/conceptart/redehlert_cow10.jpg

I vowed to do this all traditional, but did some digi work on the 'sound' aspect and color desaturation. Sorry my Seattle peeps....but it was only 10% of the full deal.
Cheers! D

[Carnifex]

whoa...that's gonna be a hard decision this week.great entries everyone!
edit: except fungi:P

[BlkCelebration]

Ah, I was havin' some problems with photobucket...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v141/depecheboy/sirenita11.jpg


Sirena-

This creature lures men of the sea with its captivating harp. Its body is attached to the small island with jagged rocks. These rocks serve the purpose of sinking ships allowing the Sirena to feast upon the drowning men.

[Sok N. Wett]

Edited my post to put in my FINAL piece.

[oomgawa]

First Creature! Be Kind. :) As I mainly paint backgrounds, this was a stretch, and while I enjoyed the challenge, I find the image to lack energy. I am not finished, but wanted to post to hold my place. It will be finished by the end of the day.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v720/oomgawa/siren7c.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v720/oomgawa/siren7ccrop.jpg

Rain Forest Sirens:

Legend has it that a wagon train carrying domestically inclined women, bound for Seattle to be brides, and exotic dancers bound for San Francisco, met with trouble as they crossed Yellowstone. Tragically, several of the Conistoga Wagons, ships of the desert, cracked through the thin crust of the mud pits and sank into the bubbling primordial baths. The men worked frantically to save the women and salvage the wagons, in particular the one with the expensive pipe organ and feather fans designated for entertainment. Most of the women crawled or were pulled out, coated in sticky mud which had seared their skin.

While the wagon train was able to reach the West Coast successfully, the women never quite recovered. Because of their disfigured skin, they kept to themselves and were rarely seen again. Rumor has it that one of the women worked briefly as a carnival sideshow freak, exhibiting apparently the beginnings of feathered growth on her arms (probably something in the mud in Yellowstone triggered the dna mix-up).

Years after the incident, sightings of strange feathered woman were reported near the Ho Rain Forest in Washington State. Witnesses described the creatures as having the bodies of women adorned with exotic feathers which seemed to catch the wind and sounded eerily like a pipe organ. Apparently the creatures would stretch their wings to full length, then protrude the hollow feather shafts into the wind, twisting them in different directions to produce a variety of sounds. Because the shaft tips had holes in the ends, the wind passed over them creating hauntingly beautiful sounds.

While the creatures, now known as Hoh Sirens, were considered gentle in their behavior, they did cause the destruction of many schooners leaving the Northwest with their cargo of old growth logs. It seems the resemblance to the Conastoga Wagons was an allure for the sad beasts who simply went out to the sea cliffs to watch these distantly familiar ships sail by. Unfortunately, the melodies played on the feather shafts lured many men to the rocky shoals and destruction.

Oddly enough, the Hoh Sirens would fly down and pull out the tangled ropes from the debris and carry them back to the rain forest to use as nesting material. Unfortunately the Ho Sirens could not reproduce, as they were all female, but their strong domestic sensibilities forced them to keep a tidy nest all the same.

[Sok N. Wett]

LOL HO SIRENS....oh man that's great, I think this is the first time I have seen your work Oomgawa, and I like it..:)

[oomgawa]

Grins!
Thanks Sok! I figured the folks in the Great NorthWet would enjoy this one. (Actually think it is the Hoh Rain Forest, should have looked it up first.)

[xia]

I decided to stay with the typical Siren, with a little flavor from my take.

http://www.angelfire.com/wa2/xia/images/speedpainting131.jpg

Siren of Ancient Sumatra:
Long long time ago along the coast of Sumatra, they live and feed of human's soul so they can be young for centuries. They scream sound so heavenly beautiful, like irrisistable hynotizing chant to lure you out. They can spot their prey from great distance with their supreb eyesight from up above. Their craws are deadly strong, no victim ever can escape once caught. Tenticles inside its mouth will wrasp around your head and suck you dry.

Additional Note: These creatures are highly intelligent, they can also use spell and magic. Tattoo and peircing are some kind of protective spell to protect them from any physical attack.

[Kaoki]

xia..........winnar........

[Sok N. Wett]

WOW.....that's just beautiful....I mean shit if I see her of course I would approach her.....yeah :P

[GomenNasai]

had my monthly down, I fear that's about as far as it will go :dead:
I'll try to take it further at lunch today, but I don't expect it to go to the poll :scribble:

http://homepage.mac.com/karimc/siren86.jpg

the concept was of hen-like siren (fat) :/ which imitates human orgasmic voices, so that a seaman frustrated by months at sea couldn't resist and had to go crash his ship, &c.

sorry

[Sok N. Wett]

That's story is hillarious GomenNasai, if you can try to finish it, do something with it, get it on the polls, I love the concept in it's thumbnail type view, if you can render it with quick colors it'll be all good, and having a deadline at the last minute will push you to do it quick....so get on it!

[GomenNasai]

thanks for your cheering me, I really want to do it; the problem is, I thought too much of what pic I want, and my skill can't follow, and the 2-3 renderings I did looked like mashed spam with toothpaste feathers, and and...

[Sok N. Wett]

Even if it doesn't go to the polls, just do it for yourself and finish it and put it in your sketchbook, every work that you do gives you good insight of what you are capable of. So I hope you try to at least finish the piece. Here's me cheering you on!! GO GO GO :android:

[Negrotuerto]

Great entries everyone!!!
I want to vote, I want to vote, I want to vote, :bounce:

Hey Xia, how long took you to make your painting (sketch+color/render)? You paint in grays and soon you color it??
Excellent fuc:xing render skills you have man.

Cheers!
I want to vote, I want to vote, I want to vote, :tihi: :bounce:

[redehlert]

Yo Xia! Way to make it proper! Bad ass!
I was going to write about who in God's name would want to pierce or tat that chick, and then you answered it in your concept copy...er....sort of. At any rate, nice!
To all - way to take a concept and run....definitely a tits job to all.
hahahahahaa....I crack myself up.
Peas.
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[Fozzybar]

Fozzy, is a pencil rendering allowd?

Are you joking Mike? :S

Of course it's allowed, we are not talking about techniques...you can use whatever you want to...

[Fozzybar]

Voting is on, go here:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=42735