Hello Kiraki.
As I mentioned to you, it's hard to give you hints. In the first place, because I'm really noone as to point you what is wrong, and what should be improved/changed in your drawings. Secondly, because they're all of them labeled as sketches, so probably what one spots is nothing more than what the hurry caused, when drawing the sketch.
On average, you confirm the initial thoughts I had. More than creating monsters, you attempt to create fauna. That's worth a praise indeed. Normally, when you (you is not you, but a general you) go to draw something, there's the tendancy to add sharp and claws everywhere, as to make monsters, and not animals for the landscape. Besides, that excessive addition of sharp elements, tends to make creatures not believable.
Someone has already commented that you seem to like to mix known species to make new ones, sort of Dr. Moreau you are ^^
If we observe the nature we known, we will find an amazingly wide range of variety in animals. It's just impressive the different forms they have, so, normally, trying to come up with a monster that has nothing to do with those animals that already exist, might give the impression of unrealistic. Similar to that saying of "everything's already invented", one might think that, given the amazing variety of animals that already exist, no other combination can exist, or it would be already there.
I'm already too long on the message and still have not commented any of your creations :S
I'll say something about the
Treep. The last one you posted, so it comes handy.
What I thought when seeing it was, hey, three legs. There's something nice in three legs, they're always on a plane, no matter how long each of them is. That then is interesting for a chair, so it would not balance at all, if it had three legs. But they tend to have four, and we all blame them when they balance, and try to fix that with normally not very elegant countermeasures.
I'm deviating again.
Well, what I thought was... nice, that creature can stand still in a very stable way but...
what about when it walks?
I don't know if you thought about it, but, having made the creature three legged, you could have added to the description how it moves around.
To my eyes, this creature cannot use the normal walking way, because if that was the case, when it raised the frontal leg, immediately after, the front part of the body would tend to fall to the ground.
You could make it walk on the two rear legs, and then when stops, go into the three leg mode, it would certainly be a weird way of walking around.
But what I imagined is more simple. Little jumps. It's kind of funny to imagine that sort of lamb jumping in order to advance. There would be tiny jumps.
That way, in Yliakum people would not count lambs jumping a fence in order to get sleep, but they'd count treeps jumping a fence.
So, how you imagined that creature? Did you think about any way they would move around? Share it
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