#1 insect

Idmonarachne is a small carboniferous arachnid, closely related to spiders. In this image it drinks water from a pool, with ferns and sphenophyllum plants.

New specimen: Frederick (greater tufted slurper)

Part of the slurper class, this little fella is a lot more docile compared to its typical vicious cousins. It lives in groups near the northern poles of the planet, which are still only a semi crisp 50-30 degrees. Eschvéu does not get particularly cold. This fluffy fella possesses a down that is unusually deeply rooted, and while very nice, is hell to try and harvest. Unfortunately though, in modern Neodani society, these aliens are endangered, from mass poaching for their skins. An unusual feature about both the greater and lesser tufted slurpers are their feelers, which are uniquely bare. Most cool climate vertebrates have a velvety covering over their feelers, but not Frederick. Instead, the feelers blood vessels work similarly to that of a penguins feet, to help better control heat loss.

in the cosmosdex universe, there are stellar drakes, which are reaaally large star-eating wyrms. so i thought “huh, what if those guys had hematophagic parasites” and before i knew it i had these not-arthropods in front of me. i’ll have to wait until the next fauna section opening to submit them, but i’m pretty happy with their design. calling them ichnesips. also, the sexual dimorphism shown here doesn’t apply to the whole species, just this particular population on one particular stellar drake host, each population is visually different even if in a subtle way

I don’t think a Deep Sea Nami necessarily has to be monstrous and terrifying (there are quite pretty things in the deep dark), but it should at least be more interesting than just “sexy cleavage mermaid but the fins are a little weird.”

Creature Pack by Alexander Trufanov

BEHOLDE, a pair of commissions!

Love to draw some twisty slime bods...and add rubber grippies to metal hands

don’t know how to feel about you

First one of the LBX sketch commissions, a bit of a goofy one, for @Cybercoyote on Twitter!