More of my Triton culture; here we have a triton whalephant herder, a whalephant (amphibious elephant/whale creature) and a couple of other examples of Sunken World fauna.
More of my Triton culture; here we have a triton whalephant herder, a whalephant (amphibious elephant/whale creature) and a couple of other examples of Sunken World fauna.
Some drawings of the ogre/dugong/manatee-like creatures from my Sunken World who I call Tritons. They’re amphibious and larger and bulkier than a human. Their culture is tribal but they’ve united against the Thulhid menace.
Another page of characters from the Sunken World. These are slave guards who accompany the Gurgus (an amphibious race of fish-men bred to interact with humans; acting as merchants, ambassadors and slave traders). These creatures were inspired by blobfish (Psychrolutes Marcidus) and handfish (Brachionichthyidae ); I had previously doodled them in May 2011 with my Thulhid designs.
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The humans and other races that the Thulhids prey upon are enslaved by having horrid magically-modified crustaceans attached to their necks that allow the Thulhids to control the host telepathically. The stress from this eventually means the host dies; so periodically the Thulhids and their fish-men servants need to acquire more slaves.
A couple of concepts for characters that move from port to port in the Sunken World plying their magical trade. The sea elemental is a variety of water elemental with added seaweed and kelp!
The druidess has summoned an air elemental and is accompanied by her monkey-cat familiar.
Here are two bounty hunter or mercenary characters I’ve been drawing on an off for years and I decided they’d fit nicely into the Sunken World environment. On the left is a race I’m currently calling Raktos; spikey-headed people with a sinister reputation for sorcery which is sometimes justified. The other is an Yrdin; a troglodytic race whose cavernous dwellings were flooded when the world was inundated with water from the invading Thulhids.
You can see my thought process from my earlier page where I’m doodling these old characters. I don’t think I’ll use the armadillo men this time but I may get back to the red goblins.
Updated 2012 with names derived from Jeremy Unitt’s ideas!
Here are some ideas I’ve been working on for non-human races living in my Sunken World. (Apart from the giant manatee-like Tritons and the fish-men and Thulids.)
First we have a red gollum-like goblinoid. I’m not quite sure about these guys yet, they’ll need a bit of work before I’m happy with them. I think maybe as well as the horns on the top of their heads they could have extravagant hairstyles depending on their affiliations (scribes, messengers or technologists).
And then I have a humanoid pangolin or armadillo like race. These are based on ideas I did for a Warcraft 3 race which I animated in 3DSMax 4 many moons ago. I liked them and wanted to put them into one of my fantasy worlds.
Finally is a djinn or demonic fellow. I wanted to draw a different kind of race than your usual elves and dwarves (not that I mind them) and this guy seemed to fit. I’m not sure about his head (looks a bit too much like a Githyanki). I like the skull, very much like Zanbar Bone from Fighting Fantasy City Of Thieves (a great cover by Iain McCaig). The second version has a face based on a jade votive axe head from Mexico (a postcard of which I have from the British Museum).
A few sketches of the instigators of the floods that inundated the Sunken World – the Thulhids (a working name); tentacle-faced Cthulhoid demon beings. Their lands became uninhabitable (maybe after a demonic war) so they opened a portal into another Earth and flooded it.
Here are some more sketches of the development of my Sunken World picture. Originally this was to be a long thin picture suitable as a Firefox persona but it grew into a much more ambitious project.
Here are some designs (on the right) I had been working on a few years ago for creatures living in a world that had been flooded. These were manatee-men or Tritons as I call them; a noble race of hunters and whalephant riders.