Happy Year That Is New! Happy 24th Year Yeaaa! Happy Year! Marry Years!

Happy year that is new! Happy 24th year yeaaa! Happy year! Marry years!

First time I have ever done a year art summary. Until 2023 I just never had the mental strength, drive, medication or time to draw the way I do now. Not that I have many of these today but getting into worldbuilding and spec bio really helped me because I can draw whatever I want.

I can draw character art, thematic art, story art, biology art, explanation art, creature concept art, culture art.............

And all in the little neat package of one universe I get to care for.

Thank you for all the positive attention and happy moments. I also thank you a lot for 1500 followers. Sorry I didn't have time to celebrate the number yet. I'm so grateful.

I hope 2024 can be like this again. Love yall.

An elder master performing one of many forms of a silent wing dance. The goal of this show is to appeal to the eyes alone, using movement and colors - making too much sound is seen as a failure in this specific style.

Some of the silent dances might try to confuse the watcher with fabric appearing as other body parts or wing flags that cover most of the performer. With uniiman arts, there are really too many variants to cover as their whole deal is to compete and innovate (but most often can still be categorized).

To some, the silent dance is more artistic than the loud one while others find it lazy not to play music with the body. It really is a question of taste.

Based on the crest drawings of this uniima it seems their show's purpose is to find 3 partners and create three lives. This however isn't because their dance or outfit is sexual, it is simply a show of skill with an additional message.

This is such an amazing design + the amazing illustration and commentary. *chef kiss*

Finally something to tear another beast to shreds with style too.

I do not know when I design my own star predator but it will be hard to ever top this.

A piece of fanart for @yellosnacc's spec project. Behold, THE GNASHING SHARKLAMANDER, GNASHER OF MOLE-STARS!!

(sorry u have to see them undressed)

This is not a final look but let's say there are some small changes to uniima. (There's very little practical change because these were already a thing, it just wasn't visually clear.) The hair has been like this forever but I never drew the bamboo feathers themselves so here they are.

So yeah, different plates/parts of the unii-skin have slightly different functions or store other things. The back of the neck contains many hard roots from which the node hair grows. The skin itself is leathery but flexible. Its biggest strength comes from the roots that function like osteoderms. Hard pieces like this are easier to see in older individuals whose skin is less fatty and more wrapped so they might look somewhat spiky at times.

The neck is another strong armor piece because it needs to protect multiple organs - primarily lungs/part of lungs. But in most individuals, the "roots" inside don't grow outside of the skin.

You can see here that compared to "islanders" (or coastal etc), "centrals" are pretty small and less bulky. One thing is that centrals are more arboreal than many other groups and being heavy makes climbing liiittle harder. Other ethnicities are also not the biggest fans of powered flight but it's getting around. I will talk in more detail and more informatively another time. I still need to do some sloman things. For now, enjoy the plate designing wip.

Have this snack while you consume information. Harvested in the morning.

Sorry I'm late even tho it's just a repost. Happy valentine!

the blorbos

This took a while because I wasn't sure about some visuals but I love my blorbos and how they ended up.

For anyone new to my characters, on the left is Neal, the professor of acoustics, sound manipulation, and other physical stuff that people of this time period can't differentiate very well. He lives a simple normal sloman life.

On the right is "bio man" (I still need to come up with names for 80% of my characters even though I have had them for ages). He teaches everything biology-related in a small school in a completely different country. But he would rather travel and discover the nature of the world (which he does with Neal in the story).

If it's not clear, they enjoy each others company (or at least will). This picture is for me to feel warm and to show the different ways they look at the world. It's abstractly set in the future where Neal gets to have a basic fasion sense and more open feelings.

ive been going through your blog and i love love you characters and i want to consume it all and congrats on the creation so cool so cool!!

thank you so so so much ❤️

Hopefully, with time the creations become even more consumable

(have a little guy)