I'm not cool enough to go inventing some new race.

I have highly considered it. It's so interesting! I like what you have been coming up with! It takes alot of time and imagination... things that I need to stretch more for artsy purposes... because boy have I needed a change with my doodlins lately.

It's alot of fun when you get an idea you really like.

I had a race written out.. lots of notes and such.. but I could never get anyone to draw them.. and eventually... I dropped them as a pointless venture.

Were you making them purely to get art of or cause you wanted to make them?

I made them to create something new.. but trying to explain them just got me a lot of stupid comments and such. And I was never able to come up with a name that people didn't make fun of either...
Its hard to be creative when your young and people mock you an your ideas.
I may dig them up again... I should..

I get ribbed cause I named mine Chetorians. I started work on them when I was in junior high so yeah <XD lots of fun to be made. So, don't feel bad. <XD I think folks just ask silly questions cause they're not sure what to ask about. I get what could be silly or stupid comments but I realize that some people are actually asking sincerely. :[

I would say resurrect em, may find a name you like this time around. :>

Well... their working name is "Caaldren" ... sounds almost like Caldron.
I often wondered weather to make them Bi-pedal or Taurs.. then ... why not both, alter their bodies as need for terrain..
A Hive mind, so when you speak to one of them.. you are speaking to all of them... they have organic space craft.. and avoid wars by either Hiding their planets.. ie; You do not see this planet and maybe you would like to alter your course for no reason, have a nice day.
..Or they move the enemy away... They dislike killing if at all possible.. being highly empathic.

XB wt--there's nothing wrong with that name. A sort of peaceful race eh? Or do they just choose to pacify and detain instead of invade and conquer? They sound like they could be pretty scary <XD

If you don't understand them.. yeah, they scare people a lot... but really, their very peaceful and act more as shepards for weaker races... watching over them till they can fend for themselves.. they will also protect those who ask for it...

Oh! I see~. That's a really cool idea though. :3

Thankies.

I have old worlds with many races. Some are going on 15 years, I think. Youngest original critter would be about 4-5 years. I have no arts and the writing is in my head. About the only written work would be maps.

Maps are cool.

That they are. I never did get around to putting in the geology and tectonics, but it's there. In my head. Until I die and then it's all gone.

>.> <.<

I made my own race because there were lots of space pirates, but no Space Vikings. A niche that obviously needed to be filled. *Nods and turns up Immigrant Song.* AAAAAAYEEEEAaaahAAH!

hah, that's pretty cool. XD

No, what was cool was there logic took me as far as weapons went.

Vibroaxe. Not intended for surgery, culinary applications, or other slicing tasks requiring care and dexterity.

I do enjoy designing realistic critters but so far have not made any anthropomorphic variants. I have no plans to do anything more with the designs. It's just a minor hobby.

That's still pretty neat. :> are they just wild animals or are they domesticate?

Mostly wild. I got started when a high school biology project called on me to design a functional creature. I usually go more for practical/realistic evolutionary traits than entertaining/cool animals, so you might find my critters boring.

Y'never know. :> Cool doesn't always mean entertaining.

I'll give it a shot, then. Here's a summary of a critter I designed. There's a lot more science behind it, but those details are pretty boring.

Bald Sloth

It is derived from the three toed sloths. As a mammal, the bald sloth is not actually hairless. It just has a very short, fine fur like the Devon Rex cat. This short fur provides a perfect hold for symbiotic cyanobacteria. Sloths in general have a mutualistic relationship with algae. They provide a habitat. The algae provides camouflage.

The Bald Sloth takes this much further by growing significant cyanobacteria colonies on itself. Such large colonies provide much better camouflage than just about any other animal on earth. The long strands of cyanobacteria hanging from the sloth act as a ghillie suit and also conceal the animals scent. In an emergency situation, the sloth can even eat portions of the photosynthesizing bacteria to stay alive.

Precisely regulated insulin levels control the amount of nutrients from the sloth available to the bacteria colonies. This exchange of nutrients both controls growth and relieves some of the pigmentation requirements of the cyanobacteria so that it can maintain the optimal camouflage colours (reds, browns, blues, and greens, depending on the location and season). It is not uncommon to see a bald sloth sporting all four colours in a mottled pattern.

I'm not very hip with the lingo, but from the description that makes them sound like walking willow branches. Or just branches in general. C: So does the bacteria help against predators? haha ;; but then I also can see a bunch of them on a deadish tree looking like it's foliage.

The primary function of the cyanobacteria is camouflage, but it's possible that it could taste terrible to predators or even evolve to be poisonous.

Willow branches are not quite accurate. Cyanobacteria usually form long strands or ribbons rather than conventional leaves and stems. Then again, there are tremendous varieties of cyanobacteria* so they could develop leafy structures. The coloration is also quite diverse.

*everything from seaweed to lichens contain cyanobacteria.

I have some. It's sucks, cuz the copyright ninjas ganked some of my ideas.

Oooh? :o :D I'll have to bug you on aim sometime about them.~

If you want. They're kinda lame by today's standards. I could spruce them up a little....feh.

Ooooh oh oh me! Mine are pretty simple though, appearance-wise. Some think wolf, others fox. They've got their own world, rules, cultures, etc which I write stories for and hopefully will one day put it all together and make something of it. :)

:D:D:D:D awesome, do you post the stories at all?

Not yet. I'm super secret about the stories themselves but I put up random art that goes along with it all the time. Like, for example, Arphie really isn't a white wolf or fox, but something I call an Indra. Indras species is getting bred out, which causes much stressing and many bad things happen as a result of the bigwigs freaking out. Also native to the same land are the Phix. (Kinda look like foxes with tufted ears.) OMG I could babble on a lot about it. Actually I've been meaning to go ahead and put out world-info for this thing, cause I've put a lot of effort into it all but putting that out won't out the story-stuff and what happens to the characters involved but yeeeeeah I got totally caught up doing cultural details. Love it!

That's still awesome. *0*
I love doing the culture aspects of my races. It seems like the most fascinating part to me really. :D But it sounds like you've got a really interesting project there. Can't wait to see whatever you put out for it.

Borks: the boar-orc race, chubby lil guys in girls who live in small to medium tribes headed by a chief or warlords practice shamanism and such, made them 2 years ago, i got stuck on some key parts of the background and they are shelved for the time being.

hah! That sounds adorable though. ;w;

i couldn't find the literary skills to flesh them out like i wanted to, i needs help with that <_<;; and yes the few i did draw are cute lil bastards. hmm... where IS their folder :: looks around room loaded with comics and shelves of books and papers

well I basicly made my Race called DrayGunth which I am still working on, I made them becasue I wanted to make a sorta Character that was different from most .Simple but fierce and had some things that I just would realy enjoy as a Race. it is fun for myself, and was mostly for myself ~
I made a cabbit Character becasue I really like the Idea of to creatures being one type of species , it really captures me , I love different types of races, not just for art but for The actul History or just the race all it self.

Same here really. I like to read up on folks' creations cause you can see all the love that goes into the work. :> That's awesome to me.

I've actually been working on a race of Sea Wolves lately; sorta like a mix of wolf, otter, and dolphin. I had one particular character in mind for a few years but only started developing the race itself in the past year. Still gotta get some art done of them, heh.

Ooh, a field guide would be neat :D

:o Neat! would they have otter like fur for swimming? Or blowholes??

Something like that, heh. I was thinking maybe a type of fur where each strand has nanoscopic 'rivlets' like those on shark skin to help them swim better. As for blowholes, I'm still working on that :P I might have to adjust nostril structure.

i've made one or two but my favorite characters race has gotten lots of work over the years, and has become prety detailed. i suck at drawing so i mostly comission other people to draw them. first person i, um hired? ended up hating me.

so bored...

I already created a lot of races because of RPG, but I always had the designers' Aid to visualize my creations, since I don't have talent for drawing.

for the time being the only race that I am creating and my character Kamillie, that I am still creating and mixing. The only thing that is ready is the history of 25 pages of her

Well... if you remember, I still have those Nyte's you helped inspire... But to be honest I don't have anything in mind for them beyond when I first made them... hmm...
I love your new icon by the way ^_^

thank you :o

That's all I use to draw growing up from the influence of digimon/pokemon, I'd fill my made-up world with all sorts of beasties. |D

Mostly it consisted of two or four legged creatures loosely based off of dogs, cats, kangaroos, or dragons that would change shape according to elemental crystals they ate. It's not very creative, but hey, sounded awesome when I was 10ish and I always wanted to use them in a game of sorts. But, it'd more than likely be seen as a pokemon rip-off or something of that nature, so I doubt they go anywhere but in my head. Still fun to do at least and I totally made up an awesome world for them to live in~

Although more often than not, I think people make species or races that look "cool", compared to ones with history. Personally, I think well thought-out creations tend to be more interesting (and nerdy with as much research as you can cram in) and entertaining to make up. Not that you can't also do it for looks~ :3

I remember those days. XD :C when I was younger had these little things I called jetrunners which were like ostrich dogs for people to ride on and big horse cat things I called amari that could be taught how to use tools.

And yeah I've seen races that were meant to be both visually and mentally appealing more than one or the other.

I haven't so much as created my own race, as rather my own special world. I've often thought about making a race or two, but rather I kinda went into hybrids and Gregor Mendel. Though I've often tried to come up with good unique names for said hybrids, instead of the most obvious of obvious.

oh you mean like mixing the words together? Shame people don't do more exotic ones like.. Ostrihog! or... uhm.. Humpoback Whaodle!

Well I try to do more than just mix names together of the animals being hybridized. I like for them to be unique in themselves, which is a lot harder. Though I've kept a pretty good list of What I think would really be the most common Hybrids.

I created a race called LinNayT, though might change it's race. This creature has spikes, or horns, or more likely a dragon structure onto his head on his forehead there is a big jemstone. His body shape is rather girlish, strong big long legs and less power in the arms.

I have this char ever since 2002 I believe. I keep changing something. or something.

:o did you post anything on them? I thought it may be that image in your gallery, the newest one.

I deleted the old pics of this char a bit long ago, and currently been revamping him. I did post something, but didn't like the design so I'm still revamping him.

Here is what I got him to look so far: http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/.....refsheet-1.png I've been thinking of adding more fur into his legs feet just as his hands and even might give him a fluffy tail. http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/.....e/refsheet.jpg And this contains the naked body as I told you a bit rather girlish on the hips. :P I love those kind of legs, I got them myself.

I thought you might would like to see his final looks: http://d.furaffinity.net/art/art/12.....t_refsheet.jpg

I forgot to comment on this thanks for coming back 8D but I really liked the way you designed his body actually. That tail looks like it'd leave quite a nasty bruise if you got hit with it too. Also, C: such cute floofy ankles and wrists. I think they suit him better and give him a bit more 'weight' as it were to go along with his pretty elaborate crown of horns there. :>

His body is pretty much based from a female, but the legs are actually huge, just like mine, but it does have the feeling of an anatomy of an animal. The legs infront from animals are usually light looking while the behind set of legs are strong built and bigger looking. The concept started about four years ago: this is the first sketch of this char: http://sheikah.com/works/Sketch.png

That Jacket is one of my favorites, but I always felt it to be somewhat not flexible enough for this char. His movements were limited thanks to the horns. He is unable to sleep like normally we would, not even by side, but just like some dog or cat laying their muzzle on the floor.

I guess I should explain how this guy came to my mind. This creature has an abnormal power and knowledge which all comes from one place: his gemstone. This gemstone looking closely looks like an entire galaxy inside. The idea of this gemstone was inspired by two things: MiB, Orion the cat had the galaxy on his necklace as the size of a marble and Sonic The Hedgehog has gemstones with incredible power.

The crown of horns is actually something I would like to have, I love the structure of dragons so I got inspired by dragons for this design, I could had gone with just horns, but I have a funny structure that allows me to hide my eyes from the sun, so made me think of hiding his eyes. I have honey, yellowish eyes, but thanks to my design they look dark brown or black. So the same goes for this char.

The previous designed I showed you, he looked more like a human, I've been trying to make them look more like animals rather than humans, the body looked way too human for this I decided to add him a fluffy hair. It is also a contradiction in here, as you can see he is both sharp and spiky and yet remains fluffy. Some parts of his body will also be hard, not just the tail and the crown.

The tailed came as this after talking with Lintu (here at FA, same name), I wanted to make a fluffy tail but was having trouble, but she told me that he should have something more like his crown, and like any ambitious person I wanted both, a most original design came to me. For this I based myself of the structure of the neck and back of a dragon I drew ( http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1485668/ ) which you'd realize he also holds one of those gemstones. I'm thinking of basing other parts of this dragon I've shown you and using them into this guy when I create a full naked body reference.

He might end up being red because Katie suggested, but thinking of making his paws darker or perhaps lighter. A different color and as well someo other pats of his body. I'm thinking of giving him a blue winter coat and red would remain as the summer coat.

I am working on making my own race.
I even went as far as to put a little info on the race as told by a scientist in my scraps. It is still a work in progress because I can not think of a name for their home planet.

Well... yes and no.

I guess you could say I've built races with my Instinctive stuff but, due to the nature of that particular universe simply being our world with anthro folks in it, the religions and customs are tied to actual religions and customs here. I'll do the research on the folklore of the particular area I plan to base the story out of and work from there.

I used to have a pretty extensive write-up for the dragons in my Prophet comic. Thing is that all kinda' dropped of the radar when I decided to focus on school and college. Though I have what could be considered the story's resource book lying somewhere in this mess of a room I'm in, I doubt any of it would hold up. Not much from my early high school days have withstood the test of time.

It was something that was really fun to do, though. Diving through gobs of stories, myths and religious philosophies and coming up with something new. I miss that kind of stuff. = )

:D relive that fun! hahah I have a habit of finding my old stuff and wanting really bad to improve it. Which is what's going on with my race stuff I'm doing.

I may revive my older stuff for next year once my strip is in a safer spot. Might even get me motivated enough try for a full size comic book again. = )

Common house Tabby, Surely that hasn't EVAH been done before...

I invented a species that is pretty much the personification of my inability to choose one animal over any other as my 'fursona'. A group of shapeshifters called the Makoji.

I forgot to throw this in here :P
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1321664/

The girls in this pic are mostly invented races. : http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1475095/

And these playing card people (there's more, they are two examples): http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1466620/

Then the holographic people (one example, Annie Virus): http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1419935/

The daughter of lesbians Reemie and January, Jennifer (Raccunkman): http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1414012/

Gold people: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1413808/

Plant people: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1411584/

A while ago I made two races, but I never actually developed them past anything more than fun doodles, or they evolved into hybrid things.

However, for a comic I work on with a friend, we both collaborated on a race of snake creatures that have split lower bodies. The hugest problem -I- have with these critters is movement, which I've been trying to rationalize for the better half of six months with various sketches. I believe I've gotten it to work finally, but that's just their movement alone! O: The creatures themselves have been in the making for the better half of two years, to the point we're making subspecie for these guys.

Movement can be hard sometimes though so that makes sense. <XD ;D it's like bumblebees. They technically shouldn't be able to fly but they do!

Made a race of rat-like humanoids ages ago and recently began adapting them for sci-fi-ish RPs.
Originally, they were desert-people, mostly nomads, but due to the 'adaption', they're now heavily inspired by the Empire of Man from WH40k. lol. Even made an alphabet for them, lol.
Another race that I made is a dolphin-people, originally highly bureaucratic. But because I'm german and not english, I had to make them less bureaucratic, as I simply didn't know all the proper terms, lol.
I have pictars, but that of the rats - Alekians - is extremely old (and not drawn by me) and that of the dolphins (Isegun) is a pip by...I think gunmouth that I slightly modified using MSpaint.

I should get a commish for each of those from some artist that I watch or something. <.< *hinthint* =P
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Hah :D Gentlemanly dolphin race. cute XDD

lol only if you really want to commission of them. XD

Well, once (or if) you have a slot free, I may just manage to scavenge enough money from within my home to pay for them.
(I'm poor D=
Lucky that I don't have to pay rent due to parents.)
ANYWAYS.
If yo ever have a slot free (or want to shove one into your current list), I'd possibly ask for a pictar or two, you getting monies in exchange. Should we discuss further stuff on PM? Y/N?

=3 I created my own race called Kittywolves,and then after a time I wanted to put them into their own world,so I created that as well. lol It would take me a while to explain everything ^o^ Thats why a few months back I put all the info on my Front Page.So anyone who is interested could read it ^w^

I'll have to take a look at those :3

aww Thankies ^w^ /

i have two races but i haven't worked too much on them, i plan to work on them abit when i'm up for it. i have a rough story for them.

they're kinda silly though.

Oh yeah? why do you say that? Or are they meant to be silly? :>

lol i dunno i guess i can't take them seriously since i haven't done much with them ... one is supposed to be somewhat silly though.

I triiiied. Though, my Keishinkae character is her own species, well, more like a branch out of a main species, she being the feline variety of it. Ive only done so much with it (She was created for RP purposes and what not) I havent posted anything about them outside of a crappy geocities site that I have somewhere.

I have tried to do my own species..^_^;..but it always seems to come out looking like something someone else has done.

Ive been wanting to make a Ruke ..because theyre hot . Which is my honest opinion..: x

Citras, of course :3

kukukuku :> I like them, lots.

most of the drawings i do are of strange creatures that just pop into my mind or i hear from friends discriptions....or by stareing at different things long enough :3....anyway they were mainly pics but i never really got around to nameing or createing discriptions for them :/

I have one race I've been working on since back in '02. Its slow going to I'm just finishing up the final details now. Its a fun side project to say the least.

Almost all of my characters are based off of made up species. I have one character that is based off of  vera's made up species. I think they're much more fun than regular, living species. I've been working on mine for almost a year now, and they're no where near done. ^^; I'd love to read about your species.

well... DNA research is not going well do to the church... we are just gona have to wait till we can make segals or herm-taurs

I once sat down and plotted out how the descendants of my character/fursona and the rest of the engineered mice like him would have prospered and evolved (both physically and culturally) in the next 200+ years for a TMNT/After The Bomb campaign that I never ran/used.

I doodled out a few species to be primary inhabitants of a video game universe. The game isn't really about them - the concept's really artsy-fartsy, dealing with transhumanism and morality in between bouts of gunplay - but I tried to put some effort into them to make the world feel complete.

The only one that's really worth mentioning at this point is a species whose members look for all the world like sacks full of jellyfish... because they basically are. The individuals are translucent little pancakes of muscles and nerves, with one side covered in short feelers and the other left rough and flat as a sort of vestigial shell. They're dumb alone, but when they all pile on together, their feelers let the whole colony act as a single brain. The evolutionary explanation for some of this is present, but unimportant.

Such a species would have a hard time making first contact, since they can literally entertain concepts of "a little bit pregnant" or "fatal but not serious." Some of the greatest minds in their recorded history have resulted from one rolling colony falling all over another and merging into one unwieldy persona. The very idea of recording history wouldn't catch on until well into their technological development, since trading or saving memories is as simple as making one little jellyfish hold onto everything relevant and throwing him out to a colony in better shape. I can't even imagine what their government would look like, or what they'd go to war over.

By the by, the rukes? <3.

After reading this, I thought about coming up with something. But with the way things are, I'd probably end up creating something that already exists.

I think it's like how people make their own race of elves or their own species of fish, yanno? It's less about what they are and more about what makes them stand out.

Hmm, I never thought of it that way. Thanks, I think I will think of something up.

I have a history of making races for D&D, amongst other things. Although, because it's generic fantasy, most of the races end up just being excuses for putting furries in the setting ^^; But our homebrew settings have a psionic, rrace related to rats, a sort of shapeshifting horse-like race, an elf-like race based on the Chinese monkey king legends, and a "troll" race which are kind of buff nature-based fey.

(Incicentally, I love the pictures you've made of your races. I thought they were really beautiful creatures.)

I made up these flying serpent dragons called "Narooks" when I was 11. I had a thing for Dragonair.

They looked much different back then.

Daisy is my flagship for her species.

I dunno. I created Dailey with just the wish that she was unlike anything I'd ever seen. I didn't bother to go into ho her body worked, or different traditions her race had or anything like that. I've lost a lot of interest I used to have in her though, she just doesn't feel as special as she did. I also had this race of dragons... I may work on them again sometime.

I adore that hyper-cute icon you've got!

thanks ^.^

a couple differnt things.mostly things that just wander into my mind and decide to stay.couple zombie things,tenticul monsters,small bitey creatures.im not entirely convinced the sin eatters are really all in my head.they seem to know about things that i wouldnt think dream creatures would be able to know about...

I usually keep most of my ideas in my head, though sometimes I draw what a race I've come up with if I've got a specific character from them. I like to write to, so sometimes I write stories involving said races. The writing is where a lot of ideas and concepts spill out since I have to craft a whole world and not just a character on a page.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1322857/

Actually a while ago I was thinking about posting a "How did you violate intellectual property rights?" journal concerning character creation. I've always enjoyed dragons, and was drawn to mascot type characters, probably because they can get away with being a-holes cuz you either can't stay mad at them or they have a high tolerance for physical abuse. So I based previous characters off creatures like Yoshi, Pokemon, and more recently, a digimon.

I guess I didn´t invent cows... so no.
But its funny... I actually never thought of creating one and it does sound interesting! Maybe I should experiment some.

I made quite a few of my own species before I found the furry fandom. I had them worked out quite a bit too, I had come up with an entire fantasy world, complete with it's own races of monsters, communities and wars. I never did name any of my species though, never got around to it.
I had a subspecies of unicorns and dragons, several hybrids, plus a few races I just completely made up. Like a strange donkey/lion looking thing with six legs, horns on it's ass and three toed hooves.
The world had it's own set of rules as to how magic worked and what could be done, things like human and demon magic can't mix, mainly because togeather they were too unstable and the spell you attempted to cast would end up being magnified and/or something would go wrong. For instance, if you attempted to cast shrinking spell on someone without the intention of killing them, there skin might shrink but the rest of them would not causing death. This is why human/demon hybrid rarely lived past the age of 15 (which is the age that magic can be proformed, of course it's not legal until age 20.)
>.> I'll stop boring you with this now.

I created a race once, about the time I meet you Kami in Miss Sonic Chat ages ago. A race of space-faring winged unicorns. I never developed their home world but they traveled in giant city sized starships. There were two sides to them....basily light and dark. The light unicorns were ruled by a single queen and her court while the dark had a council of 13 that ruled. The light unicorns enjoyed playing god and tried to right the wrong in the universe...atleast what they thought was wrong.

I mainly created them to go against people the MSC who played over powered characters....but they evolved since then.

Lynxhunter

well... realy a racy have I never before created :3
I just have my charas who live in some "Underworld" and all are looking different <<;

some are looking like humans (are in real demons)
the most one are mostly kemonomimi like like wolfes, cats, dragons, reptiles in general ect....

it still exist an BG-Story for every lil chara I have created in this "Underworld"

from a girl who becomes the "Reaper",
a dragon that hides itsels as a human cuz of her to be killed,
to one that lives on the street and fights for there existence C:

I must REALY write down this shit or noone realy will hear something about it anymore <<;

PS. realy cool new icon Kami <3

I've made so many different species over the years. While a few have been for some stories I was working on (But never finished, my early ultra-high-tech rubber-science ideas seem really off once I grew up, so I never finished anything), but the majority have been for roleplaying campaigns I've run. My friends like playing in fantasy settings, and seeing as we're all a bit of xenophiles, we have lots of odd species about. While some are just simple little ones that I thought might be neat, a lot become much more detailed and show up in more and more worlds because of it. And a lot were initially conceived of as a species to embody a certain trait or behavior, with the rest built up naturally around that. For example, the graget (Aggressive semi-amphibious lizards) were initially thought up around the idea of an extreme patriarchy, and ended up being a very violent, vicious race. Merig (Somewhat like horned anthropomorphic cats, distantly related to gnolls) were the opposite, an extreme matriarchy. Then there are the heraxen, initially conceived of to embody the idea of xenophilia (As in, how weird yet sexual could a species be?). And of course, various different lines of demons.

In fact, I'm planning on making a full "demonology" of the demons of my current campaign. Put a good amount of time thinking up details for them (They aren't classic demons by far, but they're close enough to earn the name!), and it'd be kind of amusing to have a full reference-book for the demonology specialist in the campaign... :>

And after that, I might even work up a contrasting work detailing the "angelic" beings of the setting, which even less resemble classic angels than the demons resemble classic demons...

But I've always had a over-active imagination. Thinking up worlds and species and stories and all has always been something I've enjoyed.

I made two races in Spore... Does that count? <.<

I'm lazy enough to mostly go with anthropomorphic real-world animals and D&D critters.

I only have a some sketchs. My basic anatomy is only good for human likes. Critters are problematic. I taking efforts to finish one of them off for a contest entry. Yeah I also do a lot of research to make they picture full. I mean I dont just come up with a concept of how they look, I plan a enviroment to for em to live in. I can't tell they are so damn original. Mostly inspired by another artist works I realy admire. Why cuz her creatures are so interesting. I want to learn how to do em by my own, and maybe at some rate it will be unique to if I work on the task enough.

xD yep, I have a created world (maybe 2? xD) and a few races I've created :D got a bunch of sketches/stories etc, but havn't really scanned/uploaded much on them - and for the stories havn't written more than dot points ;-; thought at some point I want to expand on them more and actually either write them out or do something with them.

OTTSELS

Completely original, I swear

AND TOTALLY SEXY MMH!

GIMME SUSHI NOW AND NOONE GETS HURT.

noooooooo can't have!
*goes to work on a 3d model of her*

Are you serious??? YOU BETTER SHOW ME.

I will if I have any success XD

I did make something a while ago called a Cottlemel, but I'm pretty sure such a thing would never properly function. o 3o; It was just me trying to draw something cute that day... pro'lly 'cuz I went to the zoo that day an' saw some lemurs.

Meh, my races are all just extensions and modifications of existing races, particularly dragons. :P

I'm not very original.

Heh. my own creation (The Glaive wyverns) are a work in progress, fine-tuning them with every picture and story. :P

'fine' is the correct word :)

I kinda have an idea (actually a frighteningly fleshed out idea) for a race of empire building space faring reptiles/amphibians, but not got around to having them arted yet (seeing as I cant draw to save my life)

I just like sergals XD

Had a little side-project back in the day that I threw out after discovering a certain popular series followed a similar world setup. Every so often I poke at rewriting the world, including the avoidance of using the cliche fantasy races. My experience there was that it is much harder to make something look unique than to write the back-story to make them act uniquely.

I did, when I was much younger, but I abandoned it a very long time ago when I realized it was pretty much a dead end. Now I work exclusively either with human-only or human-derived (especially furry) settings.

My current story-arc project is set in a furry analog of the modern world, although I am taking the time and trouble to explore the fact that the characters are therianthropic, not just humans in funny costumes or walking animal clichés.

I accidentally deleted this journal from my messages so I didn't see it. D:

I have a few races I invented for a book I've been working on for the past 7 years. I now have approximately 9 races for this universe and the worlds they occupy and probably a hundred thousand years of history woven in between all of them. A few of 'em are stuck in my gallery if you'd like to have a look.

I've made a few...and I'm still working on a few too. I may not be able to draw them, but I can describe them really well....My creations were made for my stories...and the one I'm working on now is one that I'm hoping people will want to draw.

Lessee...

Tali Hartoh-Mason's got an interesting history. See, back when she was created, twenty years ago when furry fandom was mostly a 'sausage fest' (™ Rev. Ivan Stang), the big fantasy was "Hyooman Guy Meets Hawt Furry Chick And Has Consequence-Free Sexxors".

I decided to tweak a few tails.

When Tali was introduced on the "Galaxy Local 999" storyboard on The Electric Holt BBS in Philly circa March of '88, she was expecting twins, courtesy of my character, Major Matt Mason of the Temporal Corps-which came as a surprise to both Matt and his SO, Lowchan... and which makes Tali one of the earliest, if not THE earliest furry MILF out there. ;D

The three of them are now happily married and living in Arizona. Tali teaches at the Wilde Home for Wayward Catgirls, Matt runs a vintage Mercedes restoration shop and Lowchan's still with the Corps, commanding the TMS Musashi (which was the Space Cruiser Yamato's stunt double until the Corps bought her and restored her for active duty after all the movies and TV shows were over). Matt and Tali's twins, Franq and Jesi, are students at Xavier's School for Gifted Catboys and the Wilde Home, respectively...

Now how Tali developed a taste for the ladies...that, I'm not sure of. May date back to a historic 13 page piece written by me and drawn by Reed Waller (preview here which ran in TaliVisions #4 in 1996, wherein Tali and Low discover the joys of each other...

Incidentally, Tali's initial design was inspired by Erma Felna; however, when I saw Kitten Kaboodle on 'Tale Spin' in '91, I thought, "Hey! She'd look great as a brunette!"...and the rest is history.

Most of the rest of my characters can be seen in the Spontooniverse,, to wit:

-Leslie duCleds, scion of the duCleds Chemicals fortune in Delahare and would-be adventurer. Son of Paul duCleds (whose name came up from a slip of the tongue while I was saying "Paul is dead clues"). Currently engaged to Inocenta deCiervos.

-Willow Fawnsworthy, erstwhile secretary, actually a Minkerton's operative tasked with keeping an eye on Les. She's a lady with a secret past, most of which is revealed on the Spontoon site. Name inspired by Myra Foxworthy; bod inspired by Bammby Slander of the "Sophistikats" comic book. Engaged to [/url=http://www.furaffinity.net/view/970059/]Reggie Buckhorn[/url].

-Rosie Baumgartner, former bartender at the Double Lotus (a ladies-only bar on Casino Island), now proprietress of Luchow's on Meeting Island. She showed up simply as Rosie the bartender in order to make a rather horrid pun in "Say It To Flowers", but has evolved into a first-rate character on her own. Her surname can be explained by Googling the terms "Greaseman" and "Six Minute Workout" and listening to one or two of the segments found thereby. Currently romantically involved with Inspector Stagg.

Whew! Quite an essay, this. Think I'll repost it on my journal... ;)

H'm. Lemme fix that.

Engaged to [/url=http://www.furaffinity.net/view/970059/] Reggie Buckhorn[/url].

That should do it. :)

Engaged to [/url=http://www.furaffinity.net/view/970059]Reggie Buckhorn[/url].

Engaged to Reggie Buckhorn.

Durned superfluous slashes...

They tend to have a mind of their own it seems X3 but wow that's quite a history you got there. owo

Thankee! It's been twenty years in the making, literally, so... :)

in a way, I have created my own critter...so far she is alone, but I have played with the idea of adding more. :3 my girl I speak of has the appearance of a feline or a canine, but her tail is large and completely solid like a lizards, and it IS in fact a lizard's tail. her innards are all black, and she's nocturnal and doesn't move much. her tongue is that of a snake or lizard too, and I have played with the idea of making her basic diet be insects she "grabs" out of thin air sort of like a chameleon, and also various fruits and veggies.

hrm..basally she's a canine/feline/sloth/lizard hybrid that I have yet to find a name for, though she's been around since 2000. :o SHE has a name, but not her breed. XD

As an old-school GM, I'm always working on new characters, and one that shows up a lot in campaigns (even if a seldom encountered race in a distant land/star system) would be the 'avis sapiens/ aquilline sapiens.'

And yes, they're usually have something that makes them more powerful than the other races, be it strong magic, high tech, or both. They usually also end up with such bizarre personalities that the potential god-race is effectively Flanderized into feathered versions of Robin-Williams-in-a-jar. (Semiphenominal, nearly-cosmic powers anyone? great for a sight gag, makes sure we won't get outright killed by the baddies, but why do we end up in our big, baggy polka-dot boxers all the time? And how to we wear those UNDER our feathers, which are attached to our skin?)

I have...Quite a few.

Kut'lari, spartians (so called because their names are unpronounceable), uulahyx, athercas and leifkanians (similar enough because I based them on the same premise), qu'hehn, hyxozians, eikas...The list goes on probably.

*raises hand* This came in time too, I recently found out that I'm very fond of bats. And like an epiphany, there is this uniquely eared bat straying on my pages. The ears looks like a spiral croissant split down the middle but its really a joy seeing how it evolve to get that ear. So now a little folklore is being made about how this bat is originally deaf to all but certain frequencies. At one time, there was a completely deaf version of that bat crystal cave. With all the resonance a cave can produce with minerals acting as xylophones....it was a miracle if you could seen it - yet whoever was lost in the that cave is also the key to the note.
Moreover, paws are the perferred topic, yet my tastes has centered on lesser dragons (Drakes). while no name is figured, hopefully a visual encyclopedia can be fleshed out for there's so many types. Aquatic one derived by the nautilus & fluid dynamics, one with a 528Mph running speed (I'm lost on that one), and this dead one - the first venture into personal drakes - getting its look from petrified lightning, broken or dead trees, and driftwood. A good portion have a back info while others are artful mimics of geology, engineering, or metalsmithing story buff. Especially the weapon inspired ones, must post the spear versions.

So yeah, races, except for my Caiths ( which is just subtle changes in the whole cat kingdom ) are rare for me; the how-would-this-like-if-it-was-real itch and so on come around every so often.

My fursona is a Majai, a race of genetically-enhanced felines that in the far future inhabit a terraformed version of mars, though they don't know that. They've grown up completely without technology, which they're slowly developing. In the meantime, the females have completely subsumed the males into becoming a slave race to them.

I have some stuff on my page, towards the back, including a brief description and a sample of translated text from their holy book.

I got quite a lot of races I've thought up by m'self. Most of them fit into an MMO project that my brother and I are starting to get into the works on, but the remainder are just a buncha RP, Story, or Random Drawings races.

My most recent one is the Avuuns. They're quite interesting! Have yourself a looksee if you want.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1512884/

The two submissions of mine posted before that one tell alot more about the race, but that's my best visual piccy of em. They're just an RP/Random Drawing race as of now, however, but I likes em. =3

I've actually created alot of human race variants...but almost nothing furry. Though most of my human races are under the same line as of what happend to some Isolated Countries(Japan comes to mind). Long time of isolation causes a bit of genetic repetitions that make similar attributes such as skin tone, hair colour, eye colour, etc.

I've been building an entire world of my own since 98 (Races, geography, culture, etc), trying to avoide influence from most modern fantasy. I have novels, short stories, an entire spoken and written language for one of the races, an art book, and possibly a screenplay all mapped out and planned, as well as smaller projects like instrument designs, actual plans to build said instruments, and perhaps compose one of many albums of music with them. I have a fair chunk of it drawn and outlined already but none of it will grace the interwebs possibly for another year until the project is further along ^..^'

(Whoops, meant that to be typed as 1998)

I've done a bit of world-building myself, though most of it exists so far only in my head or in notes buried somewhere on my harddrive. The one I've been developing the most in my head as of late is a fantasy world with one particular custom species I'm rather fond of: tarasks (yes, very loosely inspired by the Terrasque legend). Basically, they're closely related to/descended from giant sloths, but have evolved to fill very different roles. One type has evolved into a predator, and somewhat looks like a saber-toothed cat with horns and thumbs and so on. Another variety has evolved into giant woolly mammoth-type creatures that live in herds and are often domesticated for use as pack animals/mobile homes (think: small hut, huge harness).

And of course I've worked out a lot of stuff for the rest of the world, general history, factions, technology, basic rules for language, etc. I've been thinking of writing some of it up in quasi-intelligible form and posting it here.

biomech/full mech stuff doesn't really count right?

Why wouldn't it?

i don't know...
but it's definitely something to think about on my part, a whole new aspect if you will.

Let's see...

As a gamer, I have something like 800 pages of handwritten info, 300 of which are geared towards detailed racial information, everything from cultural overviews and detailings, social patterns, histories, physiologies, technology overviews, military layout and structure, etc. That's for one single universe. I've got some other stuff on the back burner covering another ten or twelve races for another universe, and more for that one coming as I go, since the game that one goes to is themed towards exploration.

The tech end of the spectrum includes just about every possible aspect in there, and includes vehicles, military gear, etc. Essentially, enough that I could write detailed Janes reports on most of the equipment involved, and Guns & Ammo style write-ups on their weapons.

Despite having this perhaps nigh-overwhelming wealth of races to draw upon, I find myself drawn to the products of other peoples' imagination, both for the look of the various races (your Chetorians almost chief amongst those) and for the data and information others come up with. I don't know if this simply makes me crazy, unfocused, hyperactive, a candidate for short attention span theater, or what. ^_^

I've done more than a few, but only 2 or so are ones I take my time on, most races were stared because other people wanted to draw them <<

For a story that's been a constant work in progress over the years, I've been toying with ideas for original races for awhile. Here's a couple of them.

Celtoria & the Celtorics - Anthromorphic bat-like people who make up the populace of eastern Bosrainia. They are skilled farmers and herbalists and are especially loving towards their kin, and totally hateful and sadistic towards their enemies or anyone else threatening their people or culture. Their military consists primarily of females, who have their own division known as the Orichkna (or Orichkni, both working titles), who are recognized, feared and respected for their absolutely sadistic aggression and cruelty against the enemy (they are seen as wicked souls who bathe in royal blood and sleep with loyal rage) as well as their infinite fidelity and love for their nation and folk and their dedication to its well being. They wear a white devil and black metal crest, the white devil symbolizing their malefic nature on the battlefield and the black metal symbolizing their fearless and dedicated mindsets.

Riun & the Riunnic - A city and culture made up of anthros that resemble mice/otter hybrids and are a very technologically-advanced race (one of the few in Bosrainia to have cannons, etc.), but they have never let their technological achievements overshadow their indigenous respect and admiration for nature. Their military is among the largest of the tribes in Bosrainia.

I've had a few ideas that I've tossed around my head. Including an entire universe at one point, though that has kinda of stalled. More recently I created an interesting creature species, but it's stalled too...
Sometimes i wonder if I should stick to characters rather than races...