#bestiary

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Helmingham herbal and bestiary.

Place oforigin/Published: Helmingham, Suffolk

Date: ca. 1500

#history #museum #archeology #16th century #bestiary #book #manuscript #Suffolk #ca. 1500

[tokyozilla]

Junjur kite - Bestiary log piece

close up shot more info on them are available on my patreon :3

#tokyozilla #art #digital art #character art #artists on tumblr #creature art #creature design #bestiary

[vcreatures]

A two for one post today.

Dragon posts for Smaugust.

The Maple Leaf Drake is a small to medium sized woodland dragon that populates temperate forests across the globe. Their unique body morphology allows them to hide, almost seamlessly, amongst vast maple forests. This physiological adaptation also extends to seasonal color changes throughout the year. They will live their lives hidden amongst the leaves, using their long proboscis bill to pierce through the bark of Maple Trees to extract the sweet sap, which makes up the majority of it’s diet. 

Incredibly skittish, the Fearful Precious Red Coral Drake lives it’s life hidden amongst Red Coral. It’s long proboscis-like mouth snatching up small unsuspecting pray. 

#concept art #creature design #fantasy art #creature concept #concept design #monster #creature #dragons #speculative evolution #sea monster #sea dragon #maple tree #forest spirit #fantasy illustration #bestiary #forest dragon #dragon concept art #smaugust #smaugust 2023

[fleshwizard]

#i gave the original to my cousin for christmas !! #i kept it b&w i was afraid that the different colors wouldnt match together #illustration #monster #bestiary #creature design #Supernatural in Scotland #Scotland #folklore #Europe

[rayetherna]

And this, my friends, is a fractal horse, which was inspired by a glitch in a 3D model of a friend’s horse OC XDD The portrait “sprouted” multiple snouts and I just had to take the idea and run off with it to “brew” more monsters.

#monster #horse #multiple eyes #multiple faces #fractals #bestiary

[chimeride]

Éphéméride des Chimères, fourth Aqva.

#Éphéméride des Chimères #chimeride #compendium #aqva 4 #bestiary #monster #chimera #creature design #ink

[the-hex-project]

#BAD455

#hex project #bestiary #digital art #character design #creature #green #bad455 #summoned AND adopted!!! by borderlineinsanity413 #certificate: loading #thank you so much for summoning this beautiful creature and giving them a home outside the project! #summoned

[staff]

tumblr tuesday: prancing ponies

We do love ourselves a good bit of equine-related fun on this here platform. (Context for the new folks—check out horse plinko or the unlikely hero Rich Strike). So it comes as absolutely no surprise, and with a barrow-load of delight, that we have our very own horse derby, courtesy of @aikaikaik. It's also #Junicorn, baby! And there's a lot of good unicorn art out there right now. 

Today, we honor the noble steeds and silly little trotters: a Tuesday for the ponies!

@artofmaquenda:

@theonlyturtleinexistence:

@swollenbabyfat:

@ferrymangraveyard:

@teacupchimera:

@nwmo:

@ormspryde:

@sketch-shepherd-art:

@spunchthegoblin:

#tumblr tuesday #prancing ponies #in case anyone was wondering #THE END OF ALL THINGS is the only correct choice for the derby #i will not be taking questions at this time #lgbtqia+ artists #june on tumblr #june is a month #junicorn #horseblr #bestiary #mythical creatures

[alexkhodja]

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate3 #bg3 screenshots #bg3 spoilers #displacer beast #kobold #hollyphant #Flumph #larian studios #panel from hell #bestiary #creature design #kuo toa

[the-fluffy-folio]

10 new critters available for your digitally crafted Foundry VTT worlds! Which one is your favourite?

You can find them (plus many more) over at my Patreon page 🔮 

#fantasy art #artists on tumblr #creature design #bestiary #dnd item #baldur's gate 3 #illustration #artist #animation #art #dnd #hand drawn #paintings #fantasy #digital art #dungeons and dragons #ciritcal role #ttrpg #worldbuilding

[cuties-in-codices]

crocodile attacking a man and devouring fishes

in the 'bodley bestiary', english, c. 1226–1250

source: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 764, fol. 24r

#13th century #medieval art #bestiary #crocodiles #bodley bestiary #medieval

[customcreatures]

I’ve been having fun sculpting creatures from medieval manuscripts

#medieval bestiary #bestiary #illuminated manuscript #medieval art #cockatrice #dragons #mythical creatures #my art

[vcreatures]

Mimicry is a common evolutionary path for many “magical fauna”, including drakes. While many of the larger more impressive dragons have evolved outside of this, smaller drakes took to mimicry in vast numbers. From mimicking plants to insects mimicry is one of the major defense mechanisms for smaller dragons.  

#concept art #creature design #fantasy art #creature concept #concept design #monster #fantasy #dragons #speculative biology #dragon #conceptart #creaturedesign #creatureconcept #fantasyart #illustration #bestiary #worldbuilding #dungeonsanddragons #artistoninstagram #digitalart #monstergram #sketch #wyvern #magicthegathering #creatuanary #insect #bug #rhinocerosbeetle #stickbug #beetle

[fox-teeth]

You may have seen me messing with creating risograph stickers yesterday...I'm going to make a set of medieval manuscript stickers, and need your not-legally-binding help to decide which ones! I've already decided on doing dragon, snail cat, basilisk, fox and scorpion stickers, and I'm planning for an 8 sticker set.

Note: these drawings are taken from my riso comic "Basilisk" and are just visual aids, and would be redrawn to fit the sticker format.

#medieval #illuminated manuscript #bestiary #stickers #polls

[filurig]

BIG LOREDUMP REGARDING BASILISKS (shapeshifting)... i have decided to change them a little...

#lore #worldbuilding #creature lore #basilisk #fantasy #speculative biology #pareidolia tag #bestiary #spec bio #ALL OF THEM R FUNNY FREAKS NOW NOT JUST ARVO!

[chimeride]

Hecatoncheir (artiodactylamorphe), the 240th Known One.

#they are BACK #i think they could work if i work more on the sketch before #but its scary af to come back to a project i failed not once but twice lol #Hecatoncheir #giant #greek mythology #ancient greece #chimera #monster #creature design #ink #bestiary #960 #octem 120 #aqva 4 #the Known Ones #Europe #Greece #homonculus