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"Muck Birds, a sickening animal from Nira" by Rafael Crazy Gonzalez

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As the name suggests, the Muck Bird is a really ugly species of large flightless bird, standing roughly 15 feet high and 24 feet long, that dwell in many swamps and marshes around the monster filled world of Nira. An oily, awkward cross of feathers and hair covers its body and long seaweed like strands hang from the top of their heads. The heads themselves are a light gray and with large shiny black eyes that never blink, but instead exudes a green liquid that keeps them moist, making the Muck Bird look as if its constantly crying mucus. The sharp, pointy beak has long, horizontal nostrils, blunt triangular teeth that stick out in a slight overbite with a quivering black serpent’s tongue. The Muck Birds’ tails are long and made only of feathers that clumsily drags against the ground. Collecting clumps of mud as it does so. Muck Bird males are brownish in color, while the females are a dull golden tan. Apart from load and nauseating roars, the Muck Birds’ only other defenses include brutal kicks from their talons and spike-covered legs and the ability to spit gooey globs of black saliva from their mouths, which is quite hazardous to the naked eye upon contact. Muck Birds are unpredictable by nature and can be very dangerous when threatened or when searching for food. But it is the fact that Muck Birds will mark anything and anyone with their slimy hot urine that’s the most dreaded of all! NOTES FROM ME, THE CREATOR: Originally, I wanted to have the Bunyip from Austrian myth to be the common creature one would find within Nira’s swamps. But when reading just how demonic and horrifying they truly were, I realized that I just wanted a disgusting, comical animal and with the Binyip and Dr. Suess as starting points, created the Muck Bird, my unofficial black sheep in the Bunyip family. And yes, just about everyone in Nira, including the likes of the evil Queen Vodus and Jakins, have had personal Muck Bird ‘encounters’ at some point in their lives


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11 Oct 2003:-) Alexandre S. Laguna
I'm pleasantlly disgusted. Not only this is a great drawing, with good details and lots of expression, the picture description adds up and completes this wonderful work. good job.

:-) Rafael Crazy Gonzalez replies: "Thanks you very much Alexandre, that was very well said and I appreciated that a lot."
4 Aug 200445 Veahan (the Wolf King/Ultra Warrier)
Not a monster you'd want to be down wind of is it? I like your art and the muck bird itself is very original, well drawn and thought threw as a monster arc type. Keep up the coolness that is your art work! 9
1 Oct 200445 Cam Eleon
Man, looks like George Romero decided to cross an undead buzzard and a Jurrasic Park Raptor.Totally creepy looking.This has got to be one of your best monster designs yet. A very vicious looking beast.
11 Jul 200545 The Blue Devil
Hm...is it me, or is it's face a bit skull like? Wonderfully horrid.
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'Muck Birds, a sickening animal from Nira':
 • Created by: :-) Rafael Crazy Gonzalez
 • Copyright: ©Rafael Crazy Gonzalez. All rights reserved!

 • Keywords: Animal, Awkward, Beak, Beast, Big, Birds, Black, Bunyip, Clumsily, Comical, Creature, Crying, Disgusting, Dr, Drags, Exudes, Feathers, Females, Flightless, Folklore, Giant, Globs, Gooey, Gross, Hazardous, Hideous, Hot, Large, Liquid, Load, Males, Marshes, Monster, Muck, Mucus, Mud, Myth, Mythology, Nature, Nauseating, Nostrils, Oily, Overbite, Piss, Quivering, Saliva, Seaweed, Serpent's, Sickening, Slimy, Spike-covered, Spit, Suess, Swamp, Swamps, Talons, Tongue, Ugly, Unpredictable, Urine, Yuck
 • Categories: Anime / Manga, Body Study, Head or Facial Study, Humourous or Cute Things, Mythical Creatures & Assorted Monsters
 • Techniques: Pencil/Graphite Pen, Computer-coloured Picture, Other Computer Paint Program
 • Inspirations: Other Author, Other Movie, TV-Show, Other Artist
 • Submitted: 2004-10-02 06:12:35
 • Views: 952
 • Resolution: 528x254

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