Tag: animal
#15 Emperor Penguin Guard
Who guards the Emperor Penguins? – They’re very important penguins! (VIP’s)
Day 10: Buffy the Fluffy Sheep
(A sheep in wolfs clothing!) Streamed this one on my iPad using the app “SketchClub” and got some great help from the great members on there. This is what resulted from those 2 hours of streaming! 🙂 Enjoy~
#1 – The Duke of Cats
It is something of an embarrassment to various World Security Organisations that various “10 Most Wanted” Lists contain the Duke of Cats, to the point where “Officially” no one knows the identity of this criminal mastermind, and he just has a blank space where his portrait should be. Governments don’t like to have a single domestic cat sitting alongside Warlords, Despots, Terrorists and Other-worldly threats. They feel doing so takes the seriousness out of the thing.
That being said, The Duke of Cats surely deserves his place on those lists – a criminal mastermind with enormous resources, both financial and political, who has come close to world domination on three separate occasions in the past twenty years, and would have succeeded in any of them if hadn’t been for a certain Gnome and Guinea Pug duo. Ă‚Â He has armies of minions, both human and feline, and access to enormous funds. Ă‚Â He is rumored to have numerous powerful figures on his payroll.
No one is really sure of his origins, as surely a hyper-intelligent talking cat should have some fairly obvious origin story, but as people can work out, he just has some aura to him that makes people take him seriously despite appearances.
#11 Head Ape
Experimented on and left super intelligent. Head Ape now advises on government policy!
#23 Lady
Lady is a pink & red tigress – she lives in the Cimian Jungle. Ă‚Â She likes to go adventures and hunt for meat in the jungle and she thinks she does PE lessons!
#22 Sky Hedturtle
Sky Hedturtle can fly even with the infection he has on his wings. He can fly really high, seeing all the land looking for lettuce to eat!
Part of Kiara’s takeover!
#21 Humungsor
Humungsor comes from a forest called The Cimian Forest. He eats snakes, lizards and spiders! He looks giant, but he’s really only small.
Part of Kiara’s takeover of my #30character challenge!
#20 Jelly Worm
Over the next few days, my #30character account has been taken over by my daughter Kiara.
This is Jelly Worm – He has the ability to see animals all over the world. He can see them by touching the end of his tail to his head.
#18 Escher Cat
Escher Cat
Escher Cat’s only explanation for herself is that she’s “Just like a cheshire cat, only more confusing.” She’s actually from the Holloworld, a closed underground society that makes fantastic machinery near the earth’s core. She’s a discarded genetic prototype, a mix of tiger, wolf, cheetah and who knows what else, too weird for mass production, but too rare to be killed. Underboss, the leader of Holloworld, tried to keep her trapped within a special prison, where certain laws of physics didn’t apply. However, she was able to navigate it with ease. Part of her construction included a number of unusual navigation abilities, such that she’s never off-balance or spatially confused. Ă‚Â As she explored the prison, she discovered a device (now on her right hand) that allowed her to focus her powers to open little gates into a pocket dimension called sub-space.
So she took the device, used the portals to escape Holloworld, and now she’s on the run from Underboss. When she meets Gunsmoke Jones, she at first tries and fails to take the book,then arbitrarily decides that he needs her protection. Given how crazy she is, he’s not sure about that but honestly, he’s a little scared to tell her that he can take care of himself. It’s easier to just let her tag along. And jumping into subspace occasionally has its benefits, even if it makes him sick sometimes. Also, a lot of the bones, feathers, cloth and stuff she has on her outfit are things that are extremely rare on the surface, things Gunsmoke has only read about on screens.
She has dim memories as a kitten-cub of being given some kind of chemical, so there was a doctor who hid the secret of subspace inside her. She wants to learn some of the Liber Magnum disciplines to hunt down errant memories and find out what happened to her, and why the doctor singled her out to know this.
#14 Cutey Scorpio
Cutey Scorpio
It was after the ninth frog she stung to death on her way across the river Ă‚Â that she realized she’d hit rock bottom. Jeremiah was, after all, a good friend of hers. So she started attending the meetings – Stingers Anonymous. She had to face all the rationalizations she used for stinging:
“Freud says that stinging is a natural reaction to the narcissistic cathexis…”
“Lemuel the Assassin God gave us Stingers for a reason, right?”
“It’s other animals — it’s their fault their blood is so weak. IT IS SICKENING THE WEAKNESS”
Finally, with the help of her rattlesnake sponsor, Cutey makes it through 30 Days of Stinglessness and gets her chip. She merrily sings as she walks through the forest, cluctching her precious and well-earned chip.
Then she gets to the river again. How will she get across? Immolette says “You’re a cute little scorpion. You can ride on my back, but DON’T YOU STING ME.” Cutey Scorpio proudly brandishes her 30-Day Chip. “Of course not! I’m sober!” But in heart she knows that once you sting, you can always sting again if you’re not vigilant. They begin their journey. Cutey feels the heat of Immolette’s skin, reminding her of her old/ancestral desert home, and the stars, and the ticklish feel of the hairs on her mother’s claw, and all the things that make a scorpion a scorpion. Her tail tenses, stinger at the ready. She stares at the chip for a long, long time.
(note: recently my wife said, “You have to make a cute scorpion.” I wasn’t planning to do it as part of 30 Characters, but then I realized that the scorpion was trying to stay sober.)
#11 Dink The Decoy
Dink is a decoy squirrel, who takes all the damage while the others steel the nuts. Don’t get on his bad side though….
A Squeeb, from my Novel “Mentor”
The Squeeb are a large (about two feet long not counting the tail) rodent-type creature that proliferates in the UnderCity. They are intelligent, loyal and best of all, tameable as pets and hunters.
Note: I might post more about these creatures later. I’ve run out of time for today. Sorry.
#7 Senorita Jessie El Gato
Smooth, refined and always able to land on her feet! Senorita Jessie El Gato was inspired by my daughter who wanted a Spanish feline person! She also named her Jessie!
Note: This was my first go at digital colouring (in GIMP!) and I’m pretty pleased with it!
#2 Bullseye
Bulseye is a WWII dog with the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain. His stories are always told in flashbacks by a group of dogs in a old timers gentlemens club/retirement home for dogs!
Adopted by the squadron. He became part of the crew – distinctive for his ‘bullseye’ fur on his back.
He was dropped behind enemy lines and fought his Nazi counterpart!
Scope for some cheesy ‘Biggles’ style adventures!
#01 Madame Cluck
Of course, she’s “sitting on” something she may or may not want to tell you about. It’s a question of whether she’s “hatching” anything of note.Ă‚Â Notably there for commentary about ongoings, still a good supporting character to the main plot – like a character actor to add ambiance to the ongoing story. Motherly, matronly – it’s all there.
#20 – Chicken Monkey
This banana-eating, egg-laying, cock-a-doodle-dooing beast is entertaining to have in the farmyard, but his silly antics generally end up costing Old MacDonald expensive equipment and important crops.
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