Once Again A Creature From The Continent Of Slomen. A Very Primitive But Also Very Specilised Critter.

Once again a creature from the continent of Slomen. A very primitive but also very specilised critter. 6 to 30 cm long, wet roots up to 45cm.

They live in many aquatic environments but most often you will find them in forest rivers and lakes. Some species have even adapted for life in the sea and could be considered fully aquatic while still air breathing.

Majority of the clade feeds on small animals like invertebrates sometimes parts of plants they can digest. Their hunting strategy is either burst swimming, jumping or just sliding on top of some slow prey.

There were two important species that started life on land, with the leaf ancestor being a smaller, less land specilised of the two. Leafs are one of their earliest evolutionary branches as land vertebrates and have retained many acient features like paw suckers and teeth instead of claws. In bigger vertebrates most of these little teeth were lost and became true claws or fingers (even present on the other land climber ancestor).

They can actually eat with their feet that are still closely connected to their stomach. But it applies only to very small food particles.

The wets are not very culturally significant but some regions do eat them. But the thick mantle isn't very tasty. In some places they symbolise good harvest season.

These little guys are also related to the 'birds' of Elve and I'm sure you can see why.

if you could redesign a pokemon or digimon to your own style what would it be and why?

I'm not really sure if you mean redesigning them in a way I would like them more or which Pokemon would fit my pre-existing style of drawing/world?

I feel pretty visually connected to a bunch of the ultra-beasts. Some creepy mons and some very cute ones like Clobbopus, Reuniclus, and Joltik, Tarountula... while Blaziken is my starter.

so here's a clobbopus who isn't an octopus and has only one fist

I redesigned him just because I love this little guy! I have a plush of him.

And here's a redesign of a Pokemon I was very disappointed with. He deserves his long butt!!! - Spidops

This is not probably what you meant with your ask but these were fun!

What does a sloman skull look like? I don't know! But you can take all versions as canon for now.

The version with the most detail assumes sloman eye stalks need more external muscles while both versions on the right assume the internal stalk muscles do the job for them. Versions on right would have fewer muscle facial expressions so some expressions would be assisted with feather movement but would still be human-like.

(4 "teeth","bone" brow and 5 neck vertebrae are decided canon)

ALSO HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Sketch dump

Another Uniima ll try. The body is meh but I like the head and neck much more than last time. Also, just them having bigger heads than slomen is right. However extra humanoid ones would still exist in a place. Ignore the random bones.

Just a little amphibian.

Snailke

More of this fuccin guy

I don't like planets this will end bad

Picture for @styllwaters! The raffle winner.

I really like the design of the character and they were very fun to draw.

This is a bit of an experimental style for me but something painterly seemed more appropriate for a 1k raffle heh.

I hope it's liked! (Styll, if there is something to fix you can tell me and I will edit it!)

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I hope to do this some other time soon to draw other people's creturas.

Unrelated to this part of the raffle, the silhouette competition is still going until the 9th. Rules are in my main -raffle post- and you can see some of the submissions on my secondary account @yellos2. As a confirmation, I will be drawing the winning creature and something smaller of the winner's choosing.

Have the uniima or slomen made any mythical creatures? What are they like?

While there are definitely many different mythological beings in the cultures of both, I really felt like showing the sloman equivalent of a dragon.

These beasts go far in sloman history. They can be even found in their cave paintings, often as 'hunting' targets of prehistoric slomen.

Because of how many cultures have named their own beings and how different they are among these cultures, I will not name them here.

You can encounter them in hundreds of legends/folktales with some regional quarks to each. Sometimes they fly, sometimes they lift mountains and shape the world, sometimes they suck people inside their bodies, teleporting them to strange locations (...), and other times they are simple monsters fought by sloman heroes.

Other places these beings are common in are regional flags, blazons of houses or families, house decor, weaponry, some religious imagery, and naturalist books (many groups believe they are real, same with thousands of other mythical beasts), etc.

Their form is not consistent. The number of "limbs" and "fingers" is an exception. Few cultures even depict them with full vertebrate bodies with the whole 4-limb piece being the creature's head.