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joysweeper) wrote2008-03-13 10:50 pm
joysweeper) wrote2008-03-13 10:50 pm
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Opabinia! *thumps fist on desk* YEAH!
You click the link? You see what it looks like? You see the shape of its body, its five eyes, its single appendage? If not, fine, I'll put those pictures here.
See?! See?! That last one in particular. Aliens should remind me of this! Forget humans with odd skin or prosthetic foreheads, forget green cats with antennae, forget tentacled blobs, this is what aliens should be like! Well-formed, but not like us with a couple odd bits stuck on! Opabinia For The Win!
I saw one of these in a "Dinotopia" book once. Oh, man, early life on Earth! Early life! Why am I so excited! I feel - I feel weirdly inspired, but I have no idea what I want to do with this. AGH.
Here, I scribbled an alien. The mouth-tentacles are appendages, it covers its mouth opening because that's a taboo to show, the two big eyes watch for predators while the three little ones focus on details like what the tentacles are doing. The tentacle tips with their little fingers taste and smell the medium, which is not water or nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere, and they have ear-ish membranes on the undersides of the "wings".
Looks like crap. Oh well, it was a Random Fit of Inspiration. Man! Opabinia! Awesome!
Here's something completely different.
Twentyone Twentyeight in a different Femtrooper's body mocks my attempt to draw her. I think I'll go to bed now, before I get weird. Weirder.
Whoo! Opabinia! Awesome!
You click the link? You see what it looks like? You see the shape of its body, its five eyes, its single appendage? If not, fine, I'll put those pictures here.
See?! See?! That last one in particular. Aliens should remind me of this! Forget humans with odd skin or prosthetic foreheads, forget green cats with antennae, forget tentacled blobs, this is what aliens should be like! Well-formed, but not like us with a couple odd bits stuck on! Opabinia For The Win!
I saw one of these in a "Dinotopia" book once. Oh, man, early life on Earth! Early life! Why am I so excited! I feel - I feel weirdly inspired, but I have no idea what I want to do with this. AGH.
Here, I scribbled an alien. The mouth-tentacles are appendages, it covers its mouth opening because that's a taboo to show, the two big eyes watch for predators while the three little ones focus on details like what the tentacles are doing. The tentacle tips with their little fingers taste and smell the medium, which is not water or nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere, and they have ear-ish membranes on the undersides of the "wings".
Looks like crap. Oh well, it was a Random Fit of Inspiration. Man! Opabinia! Awesome!
Here's something completely different.
Twentyone Twentyeight in a different Femtrooper's body mocks my attempt to draw her. I think I'll go to bed now, before I get weird. Weirder.
Whoo! Opabinia! Awesome!