Thursday, 11 October 2012

Beaked lizards and such...

So, it's 10pm, I've just returned from work and I'm KNACKERED. So, for that reason, this may be quite a short blog post...
Now, you may or may not know by now that I've been working on something which I've neglected to reveal information about, and yes, I'm going to show you it for the third time...


I am now going to reveal more information... These are the main protagonist characters for a comic I am hoping to begin creating. Of course, due to limited resources and time, I will be uploading this comic (page by page) on a separate blog (accessible from here via the bar at the top). The main purpose of this blog post today, is to show you a few concepts I've done for this...
First of all, I have the main, indigenous, race of whatever I'm going to call this planet (which is oh so similar to our own). This race is called the 'Draezyl' and they are homo-reptilian. No, that doesn't mean they're homosexual lizards. It means they are humanoid and reptilian. They wear clothes like a human, but have a tail to account for and their feet are rough and solid, meaning they have no requirement of shoes and they were never invented. Also, the things which appear to be hairs on their head are actually thick fingernail-like spines. You may have also noticed, that quite unlike reptiles or humans, they have beaks on their faces. This idea was taken from dinosaurs. Unlike a regular beaked creature, these reptiles also have a set of canine teeth, no molars and no incisors, just canines, although, almost like a dog's, the canines to the bag of the mouth curve around a little to enable chewing where required.
I have a concept image of the creature here:

The next creature I made came from the desire for the character 'Razer' to have a dog. Obviously, I didnt want to just give him a dog... So I started playing around with a few ideas and came up with a kind of... iguana-dog concept... This creature was named by @LiviaTheirin on Twitter, 'Lacariza'. 
These creatures are docile and friendly. they act and behave how a dog would, but have the skin of a reptile, they have several thin spines along their back and on the end of the tail and are much faster and more agile than a regular old dog. The concept image for this is here:


I think its very cute. 
The next creature I designed came from the fact that, since this comic will have an old-west theme and feel to it, there would definately need to be horses... Or would there? Sure, I'd need a mount, but who said they had to be horses?... So I started looking at other kinds of indigenous creatures of desert/canyon areas and decided I wanted to base this on a coyote... So I took the basic shape of a coyote, but made it bigger and bulkier. I also added a few spikes and an extra couple of eyes and it was looking awesome already! This creature is much faster than a coyote and even faster than a horse, its huge powerful stature and muscles make it a force to be recconed with! Despite it's immense power, however, it is, much like a horse, quite a docile creature, It likes the company of a Draezyl and would do anything to defend it's owner. This, too, was named by @LiviaTheirin and has the very cool name of Canverien!


I also thought I'd put them together in an image to help you get an idea of the size of these creatures, if you imagine that the Draezyl are the regular size of humans, this image should give you some idea:

One other thing which I've done so far is to map out the main town which the story will be based around, it's not a very good or very detailed map, but it was just for my reference. I also made a few signs for certain locations and stores within the town. Both these images are here:


That's all I've got for you this week, sorry that, once again, I turned a short paragraph into a short novel, but thank you so much for reading! And a very big thank you to @LiviaTheirin of twitter for the great names!



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