A few miles inland from the eastern coast of Elysium, two massive Gigatusk Boars are foraging for food. These giant pigs are large and powerful enough to dig up small trees to get to their roots. In this instance, they've targeted a species known as the Bulb Palm; a fast-growing, desert palm tree that evolved a bulbous structure in its root system. The bulb in question stores water and nutrients which normally allows the Bulb Palm to survive months or even years without receiving a drop of water. That is unless a massive creature manages to dig it up.

A fully-grown Gigatusk Boar needs to consume 3 to 5 palm bulbs to survive a day in the harsh desert environment. This part of the plant is the most nutrient and water-rich part of the plant, leading to the boar discarding any other part of it. If there are no Bulb Palms in the area, it will settle for the abundant cacti that grow all around it, or carrion if it manages to stumble upon it.

In times of hardship, the normally solitary Gigatusk Boar will tolerate other members of its species… unless the resources are low, which may then lead to a brutal and bloody fight. If conditions become truly horrid and even the Bulb Palms become scarce, the boars will migrate to the coast and feed on whatever washes up on shore.

It is this very versatility that allowed the Gigatusk Boar to survive and reach such massive size despite the harshness of its environment.

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So, no new species today, nor even a remake. Instead a little ecology scene. This drawing was an excuse to do a few things:
- to test out a new pack of water-color paint that I bought recently (I wanted to see how well it would work with coloring the sky in particular. The result is 'okay;);
- I wanted to flesh out one part of my world that I've barely touched so far (the Elysian Desert… well, technically one of many deserts present on the continent);
- most of all, I wanted to draw the GigaTusk Boar form a different angle and to show how it eats despite its massive tusks. There is enough space between the ridge of the snout and the point where the tusks meet for the boar to open its mouth fairly wide. And while they meet at a point, the tusks don't fuse together and don't form a single "horn" (even if that's what it may look like from the side)

(on a side note, I feel like I've messed up with the angle of the second boar's tusks and it may seem like they curve backward babirusa-stule, but that was not intentional... drawing tusks at an angle like that is hard, especially when done for the first time :-/ )

Eitherway, next time it's back to regular creature features next time.