#Codex creature arts

[kentnaturaltribrid]

“If the Manolo Blahnik fits.”

Fearsome little Mothman.

[codexnoirmatic]

Tubba Playerina Cretacious Period

[moonsun2010]

Elder Jinchi the tragedy that you are.

[thecreaturecodex]

Announcing the Creature Codex Art Challenge!

Inspired by a conversation with @doomboy911 . I figure that, with almost 1900 monsters in the Creature Codex, there's enough fodder for a full 30 Day Art Challenge.

The categories are chosen so that they represent a wide variety of monsters, and are relatively easy to find via the Index and the tagging system. I will be following the #codexartchallenge tag, and will be reblogging stuff that people post.

[doomboy911]

Theme

Fearsome Critter (Jackalope)

Prompt List

Creature Codex Art Challenge

Commentary

So I had an instant thought with this little mythical guy. El-ahrairah from Watership down. So my thinking was to make the antlers hard to see and broken up to kind of look like stars so please give it a click to see it against the black. Also here's a variant for fun

Palette picked

[fitiusvol]

Deities, divine beings worshipped by their believers, with blind faith in their teachings and wisdom. By necessity, civilisations worship a god, or gods, creator(s) of all they know, keeping their people together and hopeful, where sometimes such gods do not exist as they imagined.

Among the many gods out there, there is one who reigns silently, observing, witnessing all forms of life, the primordial abyss, a zone of unknown space overshadowed by dark and dense clouds, the dead zone of the universe, impossible to imagine, neither order nor chaos reigning, a unique and unlikely being.

[alex-makes-of-the-art]

The Hoomy Thrutmunk is also known by Mudgemite locals as "Old Man Drowning In My Aspic Barrel", a moniker earned from commonly finding the greyhound-sized omnivores drowned in aspic fermentation barrels in an attempt at a mating ritual.

As the mating rituals are 100-percent fatal to the creatures themselves, all living Thrutmunks are the result of parthenogenesis and not genetic recombination.

[neptuniadoesstuff]

Aquamanta/Ravioli Concept

This is the 2nd Starter of my Monster Collector Project, Codex of The Echos! This Lil guy is based on baby manta rays (or living raviolis).

The blue bits are Aquamarine (which explains the name lol) but the reference I used was uhh.... Not very vibrant lol.

The creature was made by me.

Art is mine

Program: Ibispaint x

Bubs' TOS: Plz don't repost/steal, trace, or recolor my art WITHOUT MY PERMISSION! If you do, I'll take yur femur and pelvis.. SO, DON'T THINK ABOUT IT! (The PNS on my blog's pinned post clearly means "Please No Steal" plz follow that rule.) If you do post my art on anything like yur blog or somewhere else (With my permission) PLEASE CREDIT ME!

[catschimericalcreations]

Marginalia, a strange rabbit lizard hybrid based on the doodled illustrations on the edges of medieval manuscripts, by Cat’s Chimerical Creations

Did you know:

With every donation you make at https://ko-fi.com/catschimericalcreations you can unlock one fun fact about any repurposed Beanie Baby hybrid plush beast of your choosing!

[catschimericalcreations]

Decided I needed this beast in my life:

there should be plushies of the strange but endearing creatures that live in medieval texts margins

[kentnaturaltribrid]

Codex, Page 138, Entry NpC Familiars (Npcs) :

3 days till Halloween 👻!

- Seasons don’t fear the reaper-

[codexnoirmatic]

CREATURES OF ONEIROGEA: Ruvalqtherion

[send-me-letters]

The Creature Codex is such a cool project and the amount of love and work she puts into it is phenomenal. I usually just lurk but if you want some monster inspiration for your art or your rp campaigns, please take a moment to give your love to the creature Codex and have a look through her catalogue of posts because she absolutely deserves it xox

State of the Codex March 2024

It is not a secret that I have had a bad year.

I am a school teacher. And a trans woman. This is my first year using she/her pronouns full time in the classroom, after a multi-year period of social transitioning. It has put a target on my back.

Over the course of this year, one period in particular has been a wellspring of hate. Homophobia, transphobia, racism and sexism. Not all of it directed at me personally, but a barrage of students showing over and over again that they are hateful and that they want me to know it.

Administration has gotten involved. Multiple students have been transferred out, but it feels like playing Bigot Whack-a-Mole. And now that the students know that they're under scrutiny, they've gotten subtler. Today someone left me a message. Subtle enough that it has plausible deniability, targeted enough that I know that someone intended for me to find it, and to know that they think of me as a man. I have my suspicions, but I don't know who did it. I feel gaslit, emotionally abused. I don't feel safe.

Someone else is going to be teaching that period for the rest of the year. They succeeded in chasing me out. I am exhausted and relieved.

And would like to know that I am loved.

Please, reblog and comment on monsters you like. Leave nice things in the tags. Send a friendly ask. If you want to make a material contribution, go to the support page. I want to feel like I'm valued and supported right now, because I have spent the last six months feeling like the wrong kind of monster.

Thank you

[doomboy911]

Theme D&D Monster (Beholder)

Prompt List Creature Codex Art Challenge

Commentary

First off god bless CC for giving me the beholder in pathfinder both as a dm and as an artist because this beauty is a treat to make. I drew this nightmare creature while watching the Bluey special. I knew I wanted red and grays and the bath palette worked great. Teeth are good and the eye is stupendous. Happy artist happy piece.

Here's a version without text.

Palette Picked

[fitiusvol]

Sometimes a death can bring birth to a new life, from the debris and remnants of a completed life the birth from its flesh will always be stronger, more intense, and more dangerous than what preceded it.

In the center of the remains of the star "REX.AUX" lies a cocoon of the result of the struggles and deaths of countless soldiers with the goal of eliminating the star. A combination that disgusts life itself, a forbidden fusion between god and mortal defying all physical and divine law, an amalgam of divine blood and man's flesh feeding and eating away at what is left of the blind star.

The union of several civilizations made possible the sealing of the cocoon with the aim of delaying its birth by making use of the "Recarno" spear embedded in the sheath, a constant monitoring of the vital signs and development of the entity is maintained in order to predict its birth and prepare for whatever comes out of it.

[vintagerpg]

From the top of Scotland to the lowest point of Cornwall aligns roughly with the distance from Detroit to Atlanta — about 800 miles, or an 11-hour drive. At its widest, a bit north of London and Cardiff, Britain is 300 across — my grueling bus journey home from GenCon in Indianapolis to Newark last year was 700 miles, 2.3 times the width of the UK. There is nowhere in the country where you can stand and be more than 75 miles from the ocean. We have an excess of space in America, true, but to me, the density of stuff in the UK, relative to the amount of undeveloped land seems mind-bogglingly high.

Oh, by stuff, I mean the sort of things that might be collected in Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain (originally 1973, this is the 1977 revised edition), a landmark, 550-page book from Reader’s Digest, of all places. I don’t even know what to call it. An encyclopedia? Guide book? Codex? It’s all those and more, really, and contains a density of information that is maybe impossible to fully parse — I have trouble just counting up the number of contributing authors. I’ve been reading it for three years now and I feel like I’ve barely made a dent.

There are detailed within: holy wells, strange creatures (Black Shuck is in here, though they missed the nuckelavee, alas), seemingly every guiser imaginable, notable trees, witches, assassins, stone circles (of course), haunted houses, tragic tales, plenty of Arthurian hangovers. There are maps with intriguing icons, detailing every corner of the countries. There’s so much art, many historical pieces, but a number of strange new illustrations as well. It’s a treasure trove.

The story behind cover illustration, I think, neatly encapsulates the many strange wonders inside. That’s a stylized drawing of the Dorset Ooser. The book claims it might represent a remnant of worship of the Horned God (unlikely) and that every village in Dorset might have had a similar mask, which was used in parade during the Christmas season and possibly to shame adulterers. But even that isn’t a certainty. There are only two photographs of the mask (it’s hollow inside and could be worn, the jaw hinged, but no eye-holes, so the wearer would have needed to be lead around and wouldn’t know who they were mocking) and sometime around 1900 the thing just went missing. Imagine having that thing laying around and A. Not really knowing what it was for and B. Eventually misplacing it!