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Sketch Commission - Homons
Journal entry, 3 hrs after arrival:
To take my mind off the things we left behind, I have decided to start describing the world we came to here. I think the best place to start would be the creatures that led us here. When we saw them, we were sure that there couldn't be people here.
They have the same mass as we do, the same faces, the same hair, same pattern of body hair, everything, except they walk on four legs, don't have speech or technology, and look like hairless, tailless baboons until you see the head. Some people have been calling them yahoos, but I think the sound they make is more like neeee-whom. They groom each other like monkeys, picking lice out of each other's hair. The hair on their heads grows long like ours does, and so they trim it by chewing the ends off. They mostly seem to eat grains from the tall grasses around here, as well as bugs. I saw a pair of them chasing after a rabbit a few hours ago, but when the sun finally went down, the same ones started collecting stalks of grass, chewing them up and halfway swallowing them. They regurgitated the mass and formed it into a ball. After it dried, they divided into a few smaller groups, two of which chased the ball and each other around, while the others shrieked and threw dirt clods and fought. After this, I stopped watching."
Update, 48 hrs later:
The local people call them homonēs.
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A sketch commission for constantius, who wanted a zoomorphic human (as opposed to anthropomorphic animal) creature for an original world concept he's working on. I always enjoy bestiary-style images, so this was a lot of fun :)
3 hrs Adobe Photoshop CS5.
Homons creature © constantius
Artwork © jocarra
To take my mind off the things we left behind, I have decided to start describing the world we came to here. I think the best place to start would be the creatures that led us here. When we saw them, we were sure that there couldn't be people here.
They have the same mass as we do, the same faces, the same hair, same pattern of body hair, everything, except they walk on four legs, don't have speech or technology, and look like hairless, tailless baboons until you see the head. Some people have been calling them yahoos, but I think the sound they make is more like neeee-whom. They groom each other like monkeys, picking lice out of each other's hair. The hair on their heads grows long like ours does, and so they trim it by chewing the ends off. They mostly seem to eat grains from the tall grasses around here, as well as bugs. I saw a pair of them chasing after a rabbit a few hours ago, but when the sun finally went down, the same ones started collecting stalks of grass, chewing them up and halfway swallowing them. They regurgitated the mass and formed it into a ball. After it dried, they divided into a few smaller groups, two of which chased the ball and each other around, while the others shrieked and threw dirt clods and fought. After this, I stopped watching."
Update, 48 hrs later:
The local people call them homonēs.
* * *
A sketch commission for constantius, who wanted a zoomorphic human (as opposed to anthropomorphic animal) creature for an original world concept he's working on. I always enjoy bestiary-style images, so this was a lot of fun :)
3 hrs Adobe Photoshop CS5.
Homons creature © constantius
Artwork © jocarra
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fantasy
Species Primate (Other)
Size 1280 x 960px
File Size 452.3 kB
Listed in Folders
That sounds wonderfully perfect for such a horrific world/setting :D Stuff like that freaked me out most as a kid - taking something that was supposed to be heroic or sweet or gentle, and perverting it into a monster. Worse is when the creature/character doesn't get that it's changed, and is either all confused as to the horrible responses it gets, or is completely unphased as if nothing has gone wrong.
Thanks a lot!
Thanks a lot!
Audio of "The beast in the Cave" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3V8N9CFy-8
Audio of "The Outsider" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH2UefOMx18
Both are about 15 or so minutes long and I think you're going to like number 2.
Audio of "The Outsider" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH2UefOMx18
Both are about 15 or so minutes long and I think you're going to like number 2.
I'm the client, and I actually read a copy of Dreams of Terror and Death back when I was in high school, and both of those stuck out to me. I wasn't deliberately invoking him, but now that you mention it I can see his influence. Soon as the semester is over I may take a walk down memory lane
This is such an innovative new way to twist and use the uncanny valley in a whole different perspective and to your advantage. Instead of making something inhuman look as human as possible, you flipped the idea and made the most human concept into a very inhuman creature, and it's that facial link that just forces the concept into what best could describe as japanese horror nightmare fuel.
Absolutely fantastic, well done indeed!
Absolutely fantastic, well done indeed!
That's wonderful to hear, haha, thank you XD <3 I really do appreciate it, and I'm sure constantius does too!
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