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"Alien portrait: Jirwick" by Henk Brouwer

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An alien fungus-like creature  I made for a custom mod for the game Space Empires V.

 

Drawn from scratch on the computer using my mouse and Gimp.




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19 Nov 2007:-) Chris D Kuhlmann
Love the mood, feels like deep undergrowth and smells like sickly sweet compost. A great vision of an alien world!

:-) Henk Brouwer replies: "The drawing was originally made for a sci-fi setting but it would fit into a fantasy setting as well, A humid dungeon, or a moldy cavern would suit them just as well 1."
19 Nov 2007:-) Azreal Montez
Congrats on mod's choice! Very deserving. Keep up the good work!
=]
19 Nov 2007:-) Andreas Rabenstein
Marvelous creature! Your work is very inspiring. Nothing against fairies and dragons, but it is really refreshing to see something new and wonderfully strange. Congratulation to the Mods Choice.

:-) Henk Brouwer replies: "Thanks 1The chances that aliens would look anything like us are very remote. I tried to make it look alien, with as few as possible recognizable limbs. It's most likely quite an unpractical build for a creature, but hey, it was fun to draw 1"
19 Nov 2007:-) Jani "Kuhitsu" Kuha
It remind me of something.. cant say what.. but anyhow. I LIKE IT!
19 Nov 2007:-) Anne Wipf
That's fun, I like it.
19 Nov 2007:-) Maarten Geuskens
Cool creatures! I like all of them in this picture and this picture has a lot of atmosphere.
19 Nov 2007:-) Michelle Tolo
Wow, great picture! And you used a mouse?! That is very well done; I could never have done that. Lovely design too, it truly looks like an lien 2
-Michelle

:-) Henk Brouwer replies: "I used a mouse, but I really should get myself a wacom. Actually the reason why I haven't done so yet is that I almost never use the computer for drawing. The reason for that is probably the fact that I haven't got a wacom... So there's a vicious circle there.. which could be broken by buying a wacom.. I'll try and get myself one 1 "
19 Nov 2007:-) Raoul Meuldijk
"Hmm, let's upload something to Elfwood. It's been a while..." DING! Mod's Choice!
Good for the rest of the people here you don't do that every day or they wouldn't get any, hehe.
Is this the sort of stuff you find under your microscope these days?
I'm impressed again by your ability to make a personality show from even the weirdest of creature shapes.

:-) Henk Brouwer replies: "Sadly the stuff I find under my microscope is a little bit more mundane. It's still good for inspiration though 1"
20 Nov 200745 Anonymous
Kind of reminiscent of a triffid.

:-) Henk Brouwer replies: "Well, even when drawing aliens, a lot of recognizable characteristics keep popping up. Like in this case a head, and tentacles. I tried to avoid having them look like things I'm familiar with, but that's almost impossible. "
26 Nov 2007:-) Carl H. Woolley
This is awesome, the colouring is so well done n adds quite a good atmosphere to the picture, im not too good at giving comments
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'Alien portrait: Jirwick':
 • Created by: :-) Henk Brouwer
 • Copyright: ©Henk Brouwer. All rights reserved!

 • Keywords: Jirwick, Creature, Alien, Fungus
 • Categories: Extrateresstial, Alien Life Forms
 • Techniques: Computer Painted from Scratch
Modpick •  Mod Pick at: 2007-11-19 10:00:02
 • Submitted: 2007-11-17 18:41:18
 • Views: 2912
 • Resolution: 512x512

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