Visitors that browse SporeWiki might have seen it before, but I never felt I had an adequate graphical representation of my creature that would warrant showcasing it along with Hydro's or Hugg's splendid work.
No more! For today I received a PM from another talented artist that frequents this forum: Bonemouse, creator of the Borark and Coanny creatures. He sent me fan art for my creature!
So I figure it's time to introduce my own creation to the forum.
I've been working on it off and on, but being horribly inept at drawing I was limited to the one kind of artistic expression that I am good at: spriting. I have been pushing pixels since the days of Civilisation II, and so took to creating my creature that way. The first result looked thus:
Acceptable for a first try, but the more often I looked at it, the more it looked like a cow with a bird's head to me.
I was shooting for a insectoid centaur kind of look, granted, but this first try wasn't it. I fiddled around, ditching a large amount of the work that had gone in the first draft as counterproductive, and in the end arrived at the second versioN:
That's more like it!
And then imagine my surprise when I unsuspectingly checked in this morning to find in my inbox the following rendition of my creature:
Thanks for the gift art, Bonemouse!
It's dead-on.
