unknownfauna

[unknownfauna]

Zebra Pleco Hypancistrus zebra Source: Here

[unknownfauna]

Art Fight 2025

WOO Art Fight starts in a week!! Pretty excited and also immediate dread

Chose Team Fossil this year! :)

Here's my Art Fight profile

[unknownfauna]

More of this guy, because even if I don't have who he is figured out, I can still make him cunty

The stuff I do have figured out for him is pretty much-

He’s from either a colony world or Zornxia. His clothes are in a pretty modern (if slightly alternative) homeworld Enithian style, but the speargun is a super traditional zoronxie weapon.

Like. Spearguns became widespread on Zornxia through resistance movements fighting against Enithian colonization. They were super important in specifically capturing spacecraft because other zoronxie weaponry at the time had a habit of piercing the hulls of ships. Which made them useless and un-capture-able. Which sucked when you were trying to reverse engineer them.

So spearguns are the traditional weapon for space-faring zoronxie, and especially in cultural groups that source back to the resistance. AKA the Coalesced House.

Which means Lirck has one too! It’s just the last time I drew her with it was uhhhhh.

Well I posted it back in 2023 and it was old even then. So I’m not sure + it’s pretty bad, but here:

[unknownfauna]

I love you speculative biology. I love you worldbuilding projects. I love you creature design. I love you fantasy biology. I love you speculative evolution. I love you science fiction.

[unknownfauna]

[unknownfauna]

Dino skulls!

[unknownfauna]

Permafrost mummies! All these creatures represent a real animal found preserved in the permafrost. There's something so fragile and special about the earth and ice reuniting us with an animal our ancestors would have been so familiar with, that shit makes me cry.

[unknownfauna]

dust you are

and to dust you will return

[unknownfauna]

The final design for my Sinosauropterix acrylic keychains! Im so happy with the design i think the leaves really work. With the prototype that came back i found that the tail was long and prone to snapping so i needed a filler and it turns out that theres an absolutely incredible fossil plant from the same formation as them called Leefructus mirus! Its a prehistoric fossil BUTTERCUP! Ill be selling these at my local con but after that theyll be for same somewhere online possibly kofi?

[unknownfauna]

A bunch of random people from what's widely considered to be the most dangerous and uninhabitable area on the planet have been asked to pose for a camera.

Some rambling:

Masks and goggles are a lot more popular in the SEZ due to high likelihood of particulates in the air (while the habitable zones have been deemed, well, habitable, there’s still a chance that rust, dust, and worse can blow in over the walls.) Daily weather updates are advisories are in place to keep people updated in case there’s a bad air quality day. Kixeli are particularly affected by this due to their permeable and sensitive skin, which is why many wear more coverage in the form of “wetsuits” that both protect them and hold moisture when outside of their communities. Wetsuits are found outside the SEZ too, but don't normally do fullbody coverage. Potentially hazardous conditions are also the reason behind many SEZ resident’s fashion sense including a lot of protective suits and gloves, though that’s also because many of the people there work as dredgers (where that’s the uniform standard ). Muttreazik and Conduits are a lot more common, with many intentionally flocking to the SEZ from the neighboring DRSS to get away from isolating and negative views on them.

From the top left:

A bunch of Kixeli show off a fish they caught. Due to the encapsulated and contained nature of current Kixeli communities in the SEZ, they can only really be self-sufficient to a certain point and often need to look to the outside for certain resources. This normally puts them in a difficult position where they need to interact with the outside with money that they dont actually use within the community itself. To solve this, many try to barter as much as possible rather than giving/getting money for their goods.

A group of dredgers, two Flickers (denoted by their yellow jumpsuits with an orange diamond) and one of their agency’s mancers (dressed in red to show their propensity level.) they prolly just got back lol.

A lone Dorest just kinda staring at the camera. Probably running an errand for his unit.

The Cerest-host muttreazik who’s next is a spear fisher. Cerest-host muttreazik are a rarity to see anywhere, both due to the small population of Cerest outside of the Empire and also their high host- rejection rate (aka they’re often kicked to the street or taken out as eggs). There is relative cultural freedom found in the SEZ resulting from the sheer amount of weird stuff going on in there, you just have to accept it at some point. As a result, you can find all sorts of muttreazik there who would not be around elsewhere, as well as a lot more non-congruent muttreazik whove ended up there as a refuge. Side note, ,weapon laws are veryyyy strict in the DRSS for anyone that isn’t law enforcement/military. The strongest thing the average civilian is allowed to have is a taser (and a weak one at that.) this spills over into the SEZ, but due to high crime rates and the general dangers of going out into the Wreck, many people in the SEZ are allowed to carry weapons that someone in the DRSS would not be allowed to have (such as a knife or bow, real gins are still a no no). That speargun is considered a tool, tho.

Another dredger, this one older. She’s a type 3, which her agency shows with her green uniform color and patch. Scarring, loss of limb, etc is a common trait for many Conduits (in general and in the SEZ, due to the nature of their affliction and many of their more dangerous jobs) but her arm has been like that from birth.

On a related note, next is a Rossetian who’s somehow lost most of his tail. It’s also worth noting that everyone has just gotten out of a period of warfare, which is another reason behind injury aftermath being a common sight worldwide.

This next guy is an alius-class with a human host, on their way to class. In the DRSS, the Tank system (where muttreazik are removed from hosts and grown artificially) usually limits traits that would make a muttreazik alius (such as the significant changes to the human body plan shown here) so they’re pretty rare. When they do happen, they have a very hard time living in their host society (which is why they might come to the SEZ instead).

Another muttreazik up next, this one doing a fun trick with a bunch of silverware he has for some reason. Reds like him can’t really do a lot more than that, but the control exhibited here may mean he’s trying to progress to orange.

Lastly, a Prectikar and his son (or just some other middling from his family, as Prectikar households are pretty much exclusively multigenerational). Luckily he’s more or less capable of hauling whatever that is by himself, since getting a personal vehicle is very hard and they don’t make many in kar size anyway. The piercing in his speaking nostril is for aesthetics and to help him speak human languages better (often known as a tongue or tooth piercing depending on the shape.) the speaking nostril only really has the “lips” and a bump at the middle to control airflow for speaking, and their mouth’s layout also isn’t super good for mimicking humans (the tongue/lips are very long and relatively clumsy, and they can only do short bursts of very low, hard to control sound from the air sac. ) this works just fine for their own languages, but greatly affects their communication if they’re trying to switch away from one of the ‘bridge’ dialects everyone uses to talk to each other) With the piercing, the muscular upper wall of the nose channel can be trained to press the piercing against the sides or bottom to produce more humanish noises. To avoid compromising or blocking the airway, these are normally minimal in size etc (which also makes them different than a cybernetic vocal implant, also since there’s no electricity involved lol. )

[unknownfauna]

Decided to redesign some aliens I drew a while ago that I never did anything with

The name most commonly used for them by humans is "brillik", sometimes spelled "brllyk" by humans trying to more authentically represent the proper pronunciation. They inhabit a planet slightly smaller than Earth, with milder seasons and less geologic activity.

On average, brllyk are slightly taller than a human.

[unknownfauna]

Got bored, Made a guy in Spore. Might make them an actual species because I like them so much.

[unknownfauna]

Fossil horse paintings by Alexei Nikanorovich Komarov

[unknownfauna]

Two evolutionary branches from a small animal called Alla-Tir. :D I am going to slowly eventually draw every single branch of this lineage. Colored species mean they are still extant during the current age of Morweav!

[unknownfauna]

fairies :3

[unknownfauna]

Dragon ?

[unknownfauna]

Osocran lore art post time! :) They received a bit of a design „upgrade“ to look less dinosaur and more alien. Woo

Their eyes are also special. More about that will be available on our website as a lore post.

And a bonus sketch because I love ya‘ll. <3