More Research
Hello guys,
Today I am going to show you further research for my major creature art project this term. I have been finding it hard to enjoy drawing at this moment since I am not feeling inspired and happy while I am doing it as before. I will have to push myself a bit just to get over this block since I have to finish this project and work on my personal ones.
Red Pandas and Caracals
Red Pandas are usually found in the Asian side of the world and their favourite place to set in are the trees in temperature forests. They are are acrobatic and energetic animals and they use their furry long hair for balance and to cover themselves in winter to be warm. 50% of Red pandas habitat is in the Eastern Himalayas although there is only 10,000 of them in the world. The reason I chose red pandas for inspiration is because of their furry body hair and unique black fur that is covering its lower body.
As you can see here, the orange coloured area covered on the map shows were red pandas are scattered around Asia.
The name Caracal cat came from a Turkish word ''Karakulak'' meaning ''black ears''. They were once trained by Iranians and Indians to hunt pray such as: birds. People used to put them in arenas with a number of birds where wagers were made on how many they could take down. Furthermore, the Caracal cat is wild and it can knock down 10-12 birds while in the air at one time. They live in dry Savannah and woodland parts of sub-Saharan Africa. You can find them distributed around Central, South and West Africa, Southwest Asia and the Middle East. I mostly chose Caracal Cats because of their long ears with the bushy hair on each corner of their ears.
I have chosen these 2 animals as inspiration for my Cat-like creature were I mixed a couple of traits and appearance of these 2 unique animals and added some of my ideas into the creature to make it more vicious and dangerous!
Mushrooms
For my mushroom creature, I have looked at a number of mushrooms such as: Portobello, king oyster, button and chestnut, shiitake mushrooms and Toadstools. The reason I picked two different types of mushrooms (edible, poisonous) is because I wanted to have variety in the game where the edible mushroom is helpful for the player since he or she can jump on it and get to the location faster or jump to a mountain while the poisonous can harm the player if he or she jumps on it.
Edit: I decided to make the mushroom creature a poisonous creature since I thought the idea of players jumping on them will be quite useless for the players so I made them creatures that will actually poison the players if the players annoy them or get near them although they can be clumsy.
Plants
For my tree creature, I have looked at different kinds of flowers including: Fuchsias, Orchids, Angiosperm and Bromeliads since they looked the most scary for me especially the monkey faced orchid because I would not want approach them although they are not poisonous. Another reason I chose these flowers is because some of them do not look like your ordinary flowers that you can look at daily which makes them unique.
Here, I found Opium flowers which can cause death since it has chemicals that suppress the nervous system. It does not look dangerous which makes the human more likely to touch it or get near it.
Calla Lilly is another poisonous flower that looks beautiful yet dangerous which can make the human to approach it if not experienced with flowers. This flowers can be useful to the design I am making since I can add them to the tree creature as a weapon. This flower will cause skin irritation and a rash if a human comes into contact with it.
Deep sea creatures
For my sea creature, I have looked up the scariest deep sea creatures in the world such as: the Fangtooth fish, Goblin shark, frilled shark and Barreleye since they look intimidating and wild except for the Barreleye. These are all dangerous creatures that fortunately do not come to the surface of the sea people swim in. The reason I chose to make a water creature is because I do not like to swim in the sea because of the living things in it (I am scared of them) which drove me to create it.
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