[GmT-Curwen]

Amazing work people, I specially like your siamese concept Scorge.

Unfortunately my tablet broke so I might as well end up doing everything in either pencils or acrilics, as oils would take too long to dry.

Here are some sketches, I'm going for a surreal approach into a sort of medieval earth.


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Don't really know if it's fitting with the activity rules, so if it's not allowed please tell me.

[acb]

heres what i have so far:

flyer sketches:


color tests:


land creature\flyer food creature (not sure which direction ill go)


and tommorow ill try to paint the land\food stuff

im thinking of making a sort of food chain thing: a flyer, its food and the thing that eats the flyer: a chameleon type of creature

scorge: cool concept, all sorts of questions pop in my head as i see it , looking forward to see the direction yull go with it

[Scorge]

@ACB: By all means, ask.

[khalixti]

Hi, I saw the long post, but I was on holiday so could not do anything
I would like to participate, but if the term Nose file is closed or when it ends

[Art_fiend78]

I just finished my image for my planet (Erebus Prime)...hope you guys like it

Enviroment/creature WIPs are on the way.

26 days left....

[Daitengu]

Great work So far everyone

So i think its time I finally introduced my planet.

The planet Acionna is second of 3 planets orbiting the star Andranus. Its fellow planets are Agni a small rocky planet and Ouranos a gas giant orbiting on the outer edge of the solar system. Acionna is named after a Celtic Water goddess. It gets this name because its surface is dominated by water. The land masses on Acionna consist primarily of small scattered islands sandwiched between two larger continents on its west and eastern hemispheres. Acionna Has 2 moons, Dhara a moon formed much like our own and Veles a captured asteroid. Acionna at one point had 3 moons however collison between Dhara and a smaller moon resulted an a cataclysmic impact destroying the Aciona's third moon and causing a mass extinction of life on its surface. The remnants of the impact can be seen as a series of fine rings encircling Acionna's equator.

[Didzis]

Late start; just couldn't resist the planet challenge.

[Gyork]

Great work everybody I just made this one I will probably remake it but I just donīt wanna stay out of this, it was made using mixing filters and custom brushes, in photoshop waiting for comments
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[samwilliams]

WIP: Fissure

Deep below the surface of what appears to be an inhabitable frozen wasteland something moves...

Hey guys, it's my first forum challenge here on cghub looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with!

[Didzis]

Face to face with the grasslands' stalker. Had to push flush five times; it was indeed a very scary experience for this explorer.

[Art_fiend78]

i like it @Gyork...it looks like the planet is dying or something on one side and the other side is alive and well...looking forward to seeing the end result.

[JoseVega]

ok here is my first step to create some environment to try and describe some different areas of the planet. just line work sketch.
cc welcome

[CrowCandy]

Hey everyone! So much great stuff on this thread so far i couldn't help but be hugely inspired!

Its been a while since I've been active on this site but given the degree of awesome this round is going to be I figure now is as good a time as any to get back in the game!

I'm coming into this round a little late but with luck and perseverance I think I can make the end deadline C:

So my idea for my planet is an ocean-dominated planet with constant cloud cover, but rather than being blue, the liquid and gaseous water-equivalent of this planet is orange!

I'm thinking there will be occasional land spires jutting out of the ocean but no large continents. Only tiny islands for this planet. I'm thinking it has no tectonic plates, only short-lived volcanic hotspots beneath the planet's crust, causing the occasional island to pop up for a few centuries before it is inevitably eroded by the oceans and disappears beneath the surface again.

Another idea would be to have geothermal vents that are so strong that the mineral-deposit "chimneys" would eventually break the surface of the ocean and act as towering geysers.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on my idea and image so far, guys!

[Art_fiend78]

@ Ogi and brynn -

would it be okay for me to start from scratch...im not liking my planets that i made...i was actually thinking about combining both planet designs to make a new planet design and create a world off of that...

[MikeCorriero]

Looking good guys -
Look at real world environments, photography, and flora/fauna and use it for inspiration - push the limits of your world. The rules of Earth's atmosphere, gravity, carbon based life forms and general look of terrain no matter where you go IE; Antarctic, Jungle, Plains, Deep Sea, Beach/Coast, Mountains, Caves, Underground, Cliffs, Reefs, Forests, Swamps, Lakes, Rivers, Canyons. These are all great places to start and use for inspiration but ultimately anything goes.
So take a look at books or references online and what makes life possible on Earth in a specific location such as the African forests, how species cohabitate, how they use and live within their environment, how the environment has led them to evolve to better adapt to their surroundings and ultimately shaped the anatomy and actions of such species living in that specific region. It all comes together in the end. Though what if the gravity of your planet were 1/3rd that of earth, what if your planet was 10 times the size of Earth, the oxygen levels completely different, the atmosphere, sky, sun, moons all completely changed... How would these things affect the terrain and environment and how would the environment affect the look and habits of the creatures living within?

The species on earth are so vastly different from one region to the next, from one animal class and phylum to another though each is dependent on our solar system, our sun, our moon, the temperature and atmosphere. We classify our animals based around a certain set of rules and guidelines to determine if it's a mammal, amphibian, reptile, insect etc. NONE of these need to exist in your world. The skin texture and colors of animals on Earth reflect their surroundings and how they live/hunt/hide - but your world isn't Earth, grass doesn't need to be green, the sky doesn't need to be blue. Just some food for thought.