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Character: Warwick
11 years ago
Warwick
Large non-anthro male eurasian otter, 10' nose to tailtip. Very playful, enjoys wrestling, belly-rubs, and sniffing into ears. Probably too bright for a feral; doesn't talk, but does nod enthusiastically to anything sounding like a question. Likes sitting in laps not designed for 10' of otter, also likes chewing buttons to cause wardrobe malfunctions. Flank-rubs against legs like overgrown cat wanting attention, and hugs legs, which is no joke from something with the heft of a pony.
Roughly: 10' nose to tailtip, 4' tail, 2' shoulder, 250lbs (muscle :)
Eurasian otter, Lutra lutra, comparison refs: http://www.biopix.com/otter-lutra-l.....oto-68282.aspx http://www.biolib.cz/en/image/id13079/
Often made of odd substances, furred or unfurred, and/or with non-traditional fur patterns: chess board coloured fur, furless solid polished rubber, metallic gold (Evil Art Nazi), glass (Trunchbull), CD fur (RJBartrop) (Trunchbull) (Electrocat), scaled like a cobra, furred like a jaguar, etc.
Otters are wonderfully squishy, and I love how their elbows often slip inside their body hide - their skin is so loose on them!
I want a happy and relaxed artist who's somewhat enthused in what I'm asking for, who'll warn me if there are likely to be difficulties with the details I stress up front as key aspects of the commission, while delivering within the PayPal period if paid in advance and keeping in touch enough so I know they've not fallen off the face of the earth. In return, I won't pester or change things already complete (without compensation), will respond quickly to questions, and I'll have the money ready if I'm paying in arrears. Anything extraordinary on either side, we let each other know as soon as reasonably possible.
Key aspects for me are typically things like being familiar enough with the species to make them look characteristic: stylised interpretations are fine, but a hyena isn't just a funny-looking dog or cat.
CD
Well, this is an excessively gaudy creature. His size would make him fairly remarkable, but what really assaults your optic nerves is the strident CD-like iridescence of his pelt: Rainbows toboggan with reckless abandon along his form, tumbling at tighter curves to splash vibrant fleeting colours over nominally silver fur. The ferocious bristle of whiskers around his muzzle glitter predictably, but you might not previously have noticed those few above his eyes and at the back of his elbows.
Otherwise a typically sleek and happy zoomorphic otter - broad muzzle, small round ears, and flat head; long streamlined body, low slung haunches, short legs, and a fairly long tail that tapers to a blunt tip.
Be reassured: it was only AOL CDs he ate.
Haematite
The sleek lines of this otter are faithfully reproduced, from his boxy
muzzle, flattened skull, subtle shoulders, along his smooth body to his low-
slung hindquarters and thick tail, yet most otters neither leave such deep
pawprints behind, nor furlessly exhibit the dark mirror-surface of haematite.
His usual swift movements and reactions are slowed by a half, hardly
surprising with his mass half a tonne. Although he seems to have adapted to
others' ephemeral nature, nosing and nudging gently (or perhaps just more
slowly), you'd be best advised not to stand in the way of his tail if it
swishes. While you can easily see the slide and bunch of muscle beneath his
surface, contact would confirm his mineral nature: cool and very much firmer.
His eyes glow the traditional eerie green of stone-based life forms.
Tar
A sweet musky odour, something like a pine-wood barbeque is perhaps the first
thing you notice - indeed, you've probably been noticing it for a while. The
scent apparently diffuses from the large glossy otter you're now facing -
quite literally black as pitch and with a wet-looking shine to him.
He's a good ten feet in length from his nose to his tailtip, with the sinous,
low-slung carriage of all long-bodied mustelids and he carries his heavy tail
curved just off the ground behind him, but he's somehow more fluid than a
normal beastie - his lines not as well-defined, as if a barrel of tar had seen
an otter and decided that would be fun.
Should you touch him, you'd find that while his furless body is as smooth as
it appears, he's tacky - even goopy - and leaves lavish smears behind: a
creature formed from some kind of living resin, viscous when it wants to be
but also quite capable of the rapid movements otters need when playing and
hunting.
Chessboard
Mathematical rigour is rarely the first thing that comes to mind in connexion with otters, so it's distinctly unusual to see one whose fur is marked in a pristine black and white chessboard; still more remarkable when the beastie in question is some ten feet long!
The nominally three inch grid conforms nicely to his essentials, with a black square that camouflages his nose and starts a column running centrally all the way along his back and front to provide symmetry. The rest of the pattern distorts to wrap and fit the slinky beastie's limbs in cleverly contiguous but non-Euclidian ways so that while there are no sneaky triangular pieces involved, you'd be hard put to play chess on him.
Which said, there're many more than the regulation 64 squares, so if you were intent on taking the ridiculous situation seriously, you'd need a very specialised chess set - quite apart from his innate squirminess and penchant for running off with the pieces.
Silicone
The sleek streamlining of all healthy otters is clearly present in this rather
large one, from his broad muzzle and flat head, along his strong neck, long
supple body, and his tail, tapering from its thick base to a blunt tip. His
legs are short in that typical musteline way, haunches nicely settled, and his
ears aren't going to win any prizes for size, but at ten feet long, nose to
tailtip, he's probably not too concerned.
He's quite on the glossy and furless side of things, and that deep shade of
purple - transparent where it's thin enough, virtually opaque through his body
- would be decidedly unnatural were he not composed of high quality silicone
like a gel wrist rest, but he is. Lucky him. :)
Jaguar
Something's gone a bit wrong here - the shape is unmistakably a quadruped
otter, albeit a rather oversized one some ten feet from nose to tailtip,
complete with the low-slung and streamlined body, ferociously inquisitive
whiskers at muzzle, eyebrows, and elbows, large webbed paws, and seriously
muscular tail, all topped off with small cookie ears and an expression neatly
balanced between cluelessness, curiosity, and amiable belligerence. So far,
so good.
What's messing up the easy story is the inexplicable presence of what appears
to be the classic jaguar pattern and colouration all over his fur.
Screensaver
A lithe sinuous ottery form as insubstantial as the breeze, his surface
picked sparsely out of thin air by glimmering rainbow corruscations
that waken into lazy existence on his approach, shine cheerfully while
they swirl through his space, then fade in contentment as he leaves
them. Some 3D computer graphic escaped from its software: the
amused indulgence of an obscure quantum effect.
Always visible, whatever the ambient light level; muscular in volume,
yet transparent. Perhaps a little warmer, a little denser within the
mote cloud than the surrounding air.
Latex
In lustrous black before you is a lithe ottery quadruped, his sculptured lines
emphasised by shimmering electric highlights that chase each other across
his elastic physique as it twists and moves. Muscular details are clear, his
smooth body currently lacking fur; even his muzzle is devoid of whiskers.
His nose does its best to contrive a damp sort of appearance and his eyes
are similarly shiny, while at his hind end, his haunches are comfortably
low slung. His heavy tail divides its attention between maintaining
balance, continuing the sweep of his spine, and swishing.
Not a normal sort of latex character, something about his stance and the
the powerful way he flexes suggests solidity: this otter is not inflatable,
something you'd doubtless find confirmed if he sat on you. :3
Scaled
Sleek lines and nigh elastic flexibility are amongst the hallmarks of all
otters, even one as large as this quadruped, but the chocolate velvet fur and
lavish forest of whiskers that tend to accompany the rambunctious playfulness
they're renowned for have unaccountably been replaced here by many thousands
of gleaming scales, tiny where his hide curves most, larger where he needs
more protection - those along his underside are almost full width!
The change has slightly affected the classic pattern of dark above and pale
below, the pale patch now claiming only his lower jaw, throat, and most of the
scutes along his chest, shading rapidly to the dark chocolate that covers the
rest of him. His scruff sports the curly inverted omega of the cobra, while
geometry reminiscent of a diamond-back's pattern whispers gold from his sinuous
shoulders to the very end of his heavy tail.
Claws and teeth remain mammalian, but his nose looks snakey.
Gold
Warwick appears to be made of pure gold! From his fuzzy little ears, to
his supernumery whiskers, to his soft fur, to his tail; if this ten-foot
zoomorphic otter wasn't moving, he would look magnificent. In constant
motion, as he is, he dazzles, casting brilliant scintillations off all
about him!
If he peers and wufs in your general direction, you may notice that his
his teeth and claws are silver, and that he has silver fur where he used
to be white. His nose and eyes gleam black onyx.
He gets a 'fresh teeth' sparkle off one of his front fangs.
Glass
Like an unexpected lensing in spacetime, this theriomorphic otter. Seemingly
formed of a living glass, his sleek body is smooth - unfurred but bulked to
the proportions of a fully-featured furry animal. He's not completely naked:
his blunt muzzle sports plenty of stiff but flexible whiskers.
He is warm, should you chance to touch him, and pliant like vinyl. The
interplay of lean muscle is plainly evident in the shifting of his surface, but
there's only the subtlest change of refractive index within him.
Nose and eyes are tinted like smoked glass, making his expressions a little
easier to interpret, and he is tinged brown to match expected fur patterning.
Those who know him well will be unsurprised to see nothing between his ears.
Tiedye
Good grief. Otters are usually pretty good at getting into various
forms of trouble, but this one's really outdone himself:
Except that the idea's clearly impossible, it looks most like someone
swiped his fur while he was sleeping and tiedyed it!
He's covered in crazy swirly patterns of bright red, yellow, orange,
blue, and green, from his black nose, along his sleek flexible body,
to the very tip of his powerful tail!
If he's noticed what's happened to him, he's not letting it diminish his
usual hyperactive, headlong, and often strange rush through life.
Large non-anthro male eurasian otter, 10' nose to tailtip. Very playful, enjoys wrestling, belly-rubs, and sniffing into ears. Probably too bright for a feral; doesn't talk, but does nod enthusiastically to anything sounding like a question. Likes sitting in laps not designed for 10' of otter, also likes chewing buttons to cause wardrobe malfunctions. Flank-rubs against legs like overgrown cat wanting attention, and hugs legs, which is no joke from something with the heft of a pony.
Roughly: 10' nose to tailtip, 4' tail, 2' shoulder, 250lbs (muscle :)
Eurasian otter, Lutra lutra, comparison refs: http://www.biopix.com/otter-lutra-l.....oto-68282.aspx http://www.biolib.cz/en/image/id13079/
Often made of odd substances, furred or unfurred, and/or with non-traditional fur patterns: chess board coloured fur, furless solid polished rubber, metallic gold (Evil Art Nazi), glass (Trunchbull), CD fur (RJBartrop) (Trunchbull) (Electrocat), scaled like a cobra, furred like a jaguar, etc.
Otters are wonderfully squishy, and I love how their elbows often slip inside their body hide - their skin is so loose on them!
I want a happy and relaxed artist who's somewhat enthused in what I'm asking for, who'll warn me if there are likely to be difficulties with the details I stress up front as key aspects of the commission, while delivering within the PayPal period if paid in advance and keeping in touch enough so I know they've not fallen off the face of the earth. In return, I won't pester or change things already complete (without compensation), will respond quickly to questions, and I'll have the money ready if I'm paying in arrears. Anything extraordinary on either side, we let each other know as soon as reasonably possible.
Key aspects for me are typically things like being familiar enough with the species to make them look characteristic: stylised interpretations are fine, but a hyena isn't just a funny-looking dog or cat.
CD
Well, this is an excessively gaudy creature. His size would make him fairly remarkable, but what really assaults your optic nerves is the strident CD-like iridescence of his pelt: Rainbows toboggan with reckless abandon along his form, tumbling at tighter curves to splash vibrant fleeting colours over nominally silver fur. The ferocious bristle of whiskers around his muzzle glitter predictably, but you might not previously have noticed those few above his eyes and at the back of his elbows.
Otherwise a typically sleek and happy zoomorphic otter - broad muzzle, small round ears, and flat head; long streamlined body, low slung haunches, short legs, and a fairly long tail that tapers to a blunt tip.
Be reassured: it was only AOL CDs he ate.
Haematite
The sleek lines of this otter are faithfully reproduced, from his boxy
muzzle, flattened skull, subtle shoulders, along his smooth body to his low-
slung hindquarters and thick tail, yet most otters neither leave such deep
pawprints behind, nor furlessly exhibit the dark mirror-surface of haematite.
His usual swift movements and reactions are slowed by a half, hardly
surprising with his mass half a tonne. Although he seems to have adapted to
others' ephemeral nature, nosing and nudging gently (or perhaps just more
slowly), you'd be best advised not to stand in the way of his tail if it
swishes. While you can easily see the slide and bunch of muscle beneath his
surface, contact would confirm his mineral nature: cool and very much firmer.
His eyes glow the traditional eerie green of stone-based life forms.
Tar
A sweet musky odour, something like a pine-wood barbeque is perhaps the first
thing you notice - indeed, you've probably been noticing it for a while. The
scent apparently diffuses from the large glossy otter you're now facing -
quite literally black as pitch and with a wet-looking shine to him.
He's a good ten feet in length from his nose to his tailtip, with the sinous,
low-slung carriage of all long-bodied mustelids and he carries his heavy tail
curved just off the ground behind him, but he's somehow more fluid than a
normal beastie - his lines not as well-defined, as if a barrel of tar had seen
an otter and decided that would be fun.
Should you touch him, you'd find that while his furless body is as smooth as
it appears, he's tacky - even goopy - and leaves lavish smears behind: a
creature formed from some kind of living resin, viscous when it wants to be
but also quite capable of the rapid movements otters need when playing and
hunting.
Chessboard
Mathematical rigour is rarely the first thing that comes to mind in connexion with otters, so it's distinctly unusual to see one whose fur is marked in a pristine black and white chessboard; still more remarkable when the beastie in question is some ten feet long!
The nominally three inch grid conforms nicely to his essentials, with a black square that camouflages his nose and starts a column running centrally all the way along his back and front to provide symmetry. The rest of the pattern distorts to wrap and fit the slinky beastie's limbs in cleverly contiguous but non-Euclidian ways so that while there are no sneaky triangular pieces involved, you'd be hard put to play chess on him.
Which said, there're many more than the regulation 64 squares, so if you were intent on taking the ridiculous situation seriously, you'd need a very specialised chess set - quite apart from his innate squirminess and penchant for running off with the pieces.
Silicone
The sleek streamlining of all healthy otters is clearly present in this rather
large one, from his broad muzzle and flat head, along his strong neck, long
supple body, and his tail, tapering from its thick base to a blunt tip. His
legs are short in that typical musteline way, haunches nicely settled, and his
ears aren't going to win any prizes for size, but at ten feet long, nose to
tailtip, he's probably not too concerned.
He's quite on the glossy and furless side of things, and that deep shade of
purple - transparent where it's thin enough, virtually opaque through his body
- would be decidedly unnatural were he not composed of high quality silicone
like a gel wrist rest, but he is. Lucky him. :)
Jaguar
Something's gone a bit wrong here - the shape is unmistakably a quadruped
otter, albeit a rather oversized one some ten feet from nose to tailtip,
complete with the low-slung and streamlined body, ferociously inquisitive
whiskers at muzzle, eyebrows, and elbows, large webbed paws, and seriously
muscular tail, all topped off with small cookie ears and an expression neatly
balanced between cluelessness, curiosity, and amiable belligerence. So far,
so good.
What's messing up the easy story is the inexplicable presence of what appears
to be the classic jaguar pattern and colouration all over his fur.
Screensaver
A lithe sinuous ottery form as insubstantial as the breeze, his surface
picked sparsely out of thin air by glimmering rainbow corruscations
that waken into lazy existence on his approach, shine cheerfully while
they swirl through his space, then fade in contentment as he leaves
them. Some 3D computer graphic escaped from its software: the
amused indulgence of an obscure quantum effect.
Always visible, whatever the ambient light level; muscular in volume,
yet transparent. Perhaps a little warmer, a little denser within the
mote cloud than the surrounding air.
Latex
In lustrous black before you is a lithe ottery quadruped, his sculptured lines
emphasised by shimmering electric highlights that chase each other across
his elastic physique as it twists and moves. Muscular details are clear, his
smooth body currently lacking fur; even his muzzle is devoid of whiskers.
His nose does its best to contrive a damp sort of appearance and his eyes
are similarly shiny, while at his hind end, his haunches are comfortably
low slung. His heavy tail divides its attention between maintaining
balance, continuing the sweep of his spine, and swishing.
Not a normal sort of latex character, something about his stance and the
the powerful way he flexes suggests solidity: this otter is not inflatable,
something you'd doubtless find confirmed if he sat on you. :3
Scaled
Sleek lines and nigh elastic flexibility are amongst the hallmarks of all
otters, even one as large as this quadruped, but the chocolate velvet fur and
lavish forest of whiskers that tend to accompany the rambunctious playfulness
they're renowned for have unaccountably been replaced here by many thousands
of gleaming scales, tiny where his hide curves most, larger where he needs
more protection - those along his underside are almost full width!
The change has slightly affected the classic pattern of dark above and pale
below, the pale patch now claiming only his lower jaw, throat, and most of the
scutes along his chest, shading rapidly to the dark chocolate that covers the
rest of him. His scruff sports the curly inverted omega of the cobra, while
geometry reminiscent of a diamond-back's pattern whispers gold from his sinuous
shoulders to the very end of his heavy tail.
Claws and teeth remain mammalian, but his nose looks snakey.
Gold
Warwick appears to be made of pure gold! From his fuzzy little ears, to
his supernumery whiskers, to his soft fur, to his tail; if this ten-foot
zoomorphic otter wasn't moving, he would look magnificent. In constant
motion, as he is, he dazzles, casting brilliant scintillations off all
about him!
If he peers and wufs in your general direction, you may notice that his
his teeth and claws are silver, and that he has silver fur where he used
to be white. His nose and eyes gleam black onyx.
He gets a 'fresh teeth' sparkle off one of his front fangs.
Glass
Like an unexpected lensing in spacetime, this theriomorphic otter. Seemingly
formed of a living glass, his sleek body is smooth - unfurred but bulked to
the proportions of a fully-featured furry animal. He's not completely naked:
his blunt muzzle sports plenty of stiff but flexible whiskers.
He is warm, should you chance to touch him, and pliant like vinyl. The
interplay of lean muscle is plainly evident in the shifting of his surface, but
there's only the subtlest change of refractive index within him.
Nose and eyes are tinted like smoked glass, making his expressions a little
easier to interpret, and he is tinged brown to match expected fur patterning.
Those who know him well will be unsurprised to see nothing between his ears.
Tiedye
Good grief. Otters are usually pretty good at getting into various
forms of trouble, but this one's really outdone himself:
Except that the idea's clearly impossible, it looks most like someone
swiped his fur while he was sleeping and tiedyed it!
He's covered in crazy swirly patterns of bright red, yellow, orange,
blue, and green, from his black nose, along his sleek flexible body,
to the very tip of his powerful tail!
If he's noticed what's happened to him, he's not letting it diminish his
usual hyperactive, headlong, and often strange rush through life.
