Hey guys, I’m coming at you with some new art celebrating the third anniversary of Third Life (can’t believe it’s been that long!) This drawing is of the lovely desert duo, Grian and Scar! Enjoy! :)
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Cletho kissies!
Both Life Series and Hermitcraft designs just because I wanted to draw hermit!Etho's silly big fox ears getting kisses too :]
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Another little batch of scifi au doodles
Featuring a couple redesigns! The species itself got a redesign but also I changed Scar’s species
If you’re confused about why Scar’s all red here’s a little worldbuilding dump for you:
This species (Sunseekers) is kind of like a reverse carnivorous plant. Carnivorous plants started as phototrophs and evolved to be carnivorous later. Sunseekers were carnivorous first, then evolved phototropism to supplement their energy intake.
However, camouflage was very important for their hunting methods (originally they were pretty much pure white with occasional light grey markings, it’s only since their lifestyle changed due to technological advancement that their skin/scale colors diversified), so being covered in bright red chloroplasts is not ideal. So - and take this with a grain of salt because I haven’t figured out the exact mechanism yet - their chloroplasts are underneath the pigment layer, which makes them invisible. The pigments move out of the way to reveal the chloroplasts when photosynthesizing, hence why the skin appears red! This is called “blooming” - at least for now. I may find a better word to describe it, but I do like the term “bloom” currently.
I made an animation of this process a while back, if you want to see it in motion:
I made it 6 months ago though so it’s pretty out of date lol. Here are the corrections I’d make now:
The wing and scale designs are completely outdated.
The red bloom should go all the way to the edge of the scales, but probably wouldn’t cover the entire wing at once.
It would happen MUCH slower than this. A single scale wouldn’t fully bloom this fast, let alone the whole wing.
I do like how it’s stylized though! The spots are more realistic than the sorta scratchy texture in the drawing I did of Scar (tbh I was just being lazy when I rendered it because I completely forgot to add the blooming until the end).
In modern times blooming isn’t as common of a behavior because food is easier to come by, and migration is very rare (other similar lifestyles where energy expenditure is consistently rather high do exist, but aren’t as common anyway). So, it’s just not as useful to be doing it all the time. Modern Sunseekers pretty much only bloom as a response to high exposure to sunlight, or when dealing with persistent physical and/or mental stress.
So basically when the body is like: put this bitch back in survival mode we need the ENERGY NOW
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~Sketches from the charity stream, the hermits' hike, and the real life smp.~
Refrence photos were taken from Gem's twitter(X)/Instagram, screenshots from the charity stream from tumblr/Twitter and moments from the RL smp.
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my gemcyt AU I started almost 2 years ago! I’m thinking about maybe doing some more designs if people like these ones
I wish I participated in gemcyt AUs on tumblr, because my own AU had already existed by that time and I enjoyed the stuff so many other wonderful artists have made, but sadly I had some personal issues and couldn’t join. Recently I’ve finished some of the designs so I could finally show them off along with other sketches :D You can actually see how my art style changes slightly from one design to another
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Yeah idk he turned out so girly pop so he gets his own post
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