SF&F Picture 2 out of 76 by Tiina 'Aarnia' Aumala.

SciFi and Fantasy Art: Aquatic Alien

This is the latest incarnation of an aquatic alien life form I first sketched years and years ago. The species, as yet unnamed, is a large predator found in shallow water habitats. Although it is generally found standing or walking on the bottom, it's limbs also function as efficient flippers that allow it to swim freely when covering longer distances. Fully aquatic, this creature gets its oxygen from the water using the twin gill apparatus found in the hind quarters of the animal. Due to hemocyanin instead of hemoglobin in its blood, the translucent gills are bluish or cyan in color.

Categories Extrateresstial, Alien Life Forms

Techniques Mixed Media

Date	Name	Comment
9 Dec 2005	Connie Lynne Hastings	Loading... this is awesome, a totally believable life form. you did a great job with the coloring and I love the feet.
27 Jan 2006	Cadellin	Loading... This is a beatifully thought out alien.I love it.Come on in ,the waters fine...Hey wait a minute...its got me by the leg..... glug!
2 Feb 2006	Kristen Nicole Vincent	Loading... Wow. Good color and detail. I've created an entire planet and ecosystem in my head...now I just have to draw it! It looks like a weird aquatic insect...how big is it? Tiina 'Aarnia' Aumala replies: "Well, it's akin to certain other aquatic species in that it grows throughout its life, so old individuals can be bigger than humans, but normally they are roughly dog-sized."
6 Nov 2006	Anonymous	Loading... I love how your creatures are so structurally sound, the musculature is very believable and they look very well adapted to their environment!
20 Dec 2006	Dan	Loading... That look very good if we find alien life somewhere in our galaxy one-day. one of them would look like that.
15 Jan 2007	Kent Christian Jensen	Loading... If i were allowed to, I would love to make a screensaver with this creature hunting around after prey sleeping in its burrow and minding its own buisness, fending off predators or hiding from them, having offspring and such But if not then thats okay too, still cool thinking about it roaming around in its natural enviroment (Astrobiology would be the thing for me for sure ) anyway great stuff love it
22 Sep 2007	Anonymous	Loading... The scales, gills, and jaws remind me of the scalestork. Are they related?
21 Feb 2008	Xipe Totec	Loading... It’s cool you thought it’s biochemistry through so much that you decided it has hemocyanin instead of hemoglobin.
12 Aug 2008	Syd baker	Loading... You’ve taken the "monster" concept far into the realm of the biologic, complete with research, THEN captured it’s essence with a first class illustration. Quite exceptional! I will now study the rest of your works...

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SciFi and Fantasy Art: Aquatic Alien