Spec evolution

The Megasquid is a large, omnivorous terasquid from the Northern Forest of 200 million AD in the documentary The Future is Wild. It is the biggest of the Terasquids, as well as the biggest land animal of the time. Larger and more massive than any Human-era land animal at 16.375 feet (5 meters) high and 8.8125 tons (8 tonnes) in weight, a Megasquid can be seen pushing its way through the soaking vegetation, splintering conifer trunks and pulping the branches of lichen trees as it goes. Air…

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The Age of the Metamorph Bird Clade Metamorphaves ~~~ The world of the Ultimocene is dominated by strange and wild creatures, many of them utterly alien compared to their introduced ancestors, but of all the planet's abundant life possibly no creatures are more derived than the changelings, or

Sea dragon spec evolution

Over the past five million years an animal has been evolving down a novel path, setting in motion a series of events that would change the world... if just for a while.

In late 2017 I was commissioned by North Star Games to do a series of drawings in the style of field sketches for the digital version of their board game, "Evolution". Prior to that I'd done creature avatars for the game, but this prompt was unique. Each drawing was based on a combination of three traits the player could choose for their creature, and the resulting images would appear as unlockable rewards when certain conditions were met. Traits include terms ranging from morphological…