#altuyur

[t34-mt]

not so interesting sketch dumps cause i feel guilty about not posting today, last one is mythological kyhuine dwarves ideas

maanul faces dump, trying to have ocs with difference faces lalala

sketches for a wip text about new infos around tahofahs and how theywork, concepts about "mind gates" and exchanging infos. its already figured, already yapped to some friends about it, i just need to redo my text to be clean and coherent for normal people here

shitposts

#sketch dump #ms paint #ocs #altuyur #maanul #kyhuine #speculative biology #artists on tumblr #digital art #my art #sketches #2024

[styllwaters]

Artfight revenge for @arkelyon !! Go check out their blog if you haven’t, fantastic art and worldbuilding I go bonkers over it every day

#fun fact this was my 100th attack 🎉 #artfight #artfight 2023 #altuyur #monmartre #morang #maanul #that’s a lot of m’s #art #my art #illustration #spec bio #speculative biology

[aeriona]

Artfight attack for @arkelyon! Precious boy Tëkeh!

#DUDE I lost so much time to artblock/issues i could have used for AF i’ll never not be mad about that lmao #This is VERY late in the month but I just wanted to make something nice so here you go :) #my art #artfight #art fight 2023 #altuyur #maanul #speculative zoology #xenofiction #original species #digital art #artists on tumblr

[grox-empire]

Another attack for @arkelyon that I went a BIIIIT insane on... I love the shit outta your characters and artwork so I couldn't help but draw one of your characters again!

#alien #xenobiology #maanul #altuyur #morang #spec evo #speculative evolution #xenofiction #my art #artfight #artfight 2023 #art fight

[tik-taliks]

Art fight of kaasim for @arkelyon,

I was originally gonna attack a different chatacter but this traumatized guy stole the show

#altuyur #art #digital art #art fight

[corvidist]

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.

Artfight attack against @arkelyon featuring their oc Ame (right).

#digital art #art #maanul #altuyur #xenobiology #kyhuine #spec evo #spec bio #speculative biology #speculative evolution #war #fire #based anti-war revolutionaries

[emo-catgirl]

art trade for @arkelyon !

#art #oc #maanul #altuyur #i go thru the tag when im at work #it keeps me sane

[beryluma]

oh btw @arkelyon! I doodled a kyhuine last night because I adore these guys and their big eyes lol

#Bluearts #Sketch #fanart #kyhuine #altuyur #alien

[arkelyon]

I love not giving a shit about posting my work online anymore

#keeping altuyur around a circle of friend thats it

[t34-mt]

Qua'tuli's traditional adult north-east winter clothes when he returned home, around year 217-219 of GA, before recall (timeline is in the work, numbers might change one day). Altuyur is a hot moon, but only in the far north can temperate seasons can happen.

more infos on clothes below

info chart, I'll expand on some things I've pointed out in the drawing, so make sure to read the notes before reading the text below

The family's folklore animal:

The northern, puy'ul families always have an animal associated with them, said association is from history that happened with the animal, but the event has nowadays turned into folklore. The stories only being transmitted orally, they slowly diverge and change to be more fantastical. The emblem animal can start off as a regular one but slowly shift into more strange descriptions, eventually ending up as a unique beast. Even if two families have the same emblem animal, the stories will never be the same. The emblem animal will often be a coastal one. On Qua'tuli's clothes, it is found in a bone disk that is hollowed out, then tissue is placed under and attached on the side, and the animal is embroidered in the tissue. They believe that emblem animals will be here after their burial at sea has been done, they think the creature will pick their core at sea and return them to haanu.

Repeated Eye designs:

each region have a different depiction of haanu, maanul's all-mighty mother. In the north their version of her has plenty of eyes. constantly shifting from place to place like clouds passing in the sky, they slowly reemerge from her face to disappear in the wrinkles of flesh at the end of her snout. this is what haanu's face looks like in the north ->

a while i dont have an info chart of every version available yet (ill have a separate post for the subject), this is an old sketch but still very accurate! repeated eye patterns are seen as a protection symbol in north regions

Necklace to hide neck:

Not having clothes isn't inherently seen as sexual, as context matters, although in day-to-day life adults might have certain body parts to hide depending on region. In the north east, adult of both genders will hide their neck, and will also always have their keel hidden even in interiors when wearing lighter clothes. Although they can be shown to their partner in private settings, they're hidden for cultural beliefs.

As i said context matters so showing keel and neck in north east while bathing (they bathe in groups) will not be seen as a lack of decency, as the setting is them simply washing themselves

lucky charm

a tooth (of an unidentified animal) qua'tuli has found as a little child in the snow, while throwing himself in the powdered snow he just stumbled upon it and has kept it as his lucky charm. He actually has it with him as a recruit (inside a pocket), and when he came home after acquiring his iron talons he kept it on his foot glove.

#maanul #north east maanul #ms paint #digital art #my art #oc #artists on tumblr #worldbuilding #speculative zoology #altuyur #xenofiction #additional text #2023 #qua'tuli #clothes #character designs #haanu #lore

[t34-mt]

kyhuine southern (dry valley group) crop farmers in a field of "siesu". Which are basically mold balls that can be used like cotton.

The post will be updated with additional text later about domesticated siesu and its usages.

drawing started months ago on krita but it wasn't going well, finished and painted on rebelled 7

#2024 #digital art #my art #artists on tumblr #speculative zoology #altuyur #kyhuine #worldbuilding #no txt yet #xenobiology #speculative biology #painting

[t34-mt]

for an oc pmv/amv i'll prob never finish. Mri scans of maanul, with severed tahofahs / "olfactory lobe" in the second pic

#mri #ms paint #maanul #digital art #my art #oc #artists on tumblr #worldbuilding #speculative zoology #altuyur #black white #xenobiology #wip #anatomy

[t34-mt]

a redraw of a piece from september 2022. trying to balance stylization and them feeling real, but also testing to have their faces be different. i hope the skin parts are now obvious

also bonus sketch their younger sibling, from another litter of 1, bantam ( or tamtam depend context)

unrelated but i still want to add it in, since the thing that looks like "ears" on kyhuines heads are just a bunch of feathers then i only now recently thought about how they could move around for expressions. ill see how far i can push them for the expression sheet

#digital art #my art #ms paint #artists on tumblr #speculative zoology #altuyur #redraw #worldbuilding #kyhuine #dry valley kyhuines #soithern #speculative biology #xenobiology #kapone #oto #satmuh #oc #tamtam

[t34-mt]

Laptop might of died (I'm still upset) but I at least took a screenshot of a doodle I did a few days ago. Have this wip unti I figure out if my dusty beast will be saved

Snarling juvenile male,from Salt desert regions. Notice kyhuine's snout tip and around the eyes being pinkish, it's where they have proto feathers or almost nothing at all. And it lets their skin show throught. The snout tip is used in face to face contact like maanuls, but their nose don't have that extreme structure like their bigger cousins do. The white of the eyes in kyhuines should not show up unless they're stressed/scared, but it can also show up if they're just doing side eye or concentrating on a spot in front of them

#digital art #my art #artists on tumblr #speculative zoology #sketch #altuyur #wip #krita #kyhuine #xenobiology #2023 #alien #speculative biology

[t34-mt]

tepueh pu, the domesticated que'arsaeb animals of maanuls that act as a "sheperd dog" for them, but for the ocean obviously. more info and images below ->

tepueh pu are a tiny aquatic animal of the que'arsaeb reign meaning it has 6 limbs and its body is segmented in distinct parts, It also means they have a sort of "bone" exo-skeleton with rough skin on top. their front limbs who serve no purpose but to do courting dance and occasionally help themselves to crawl around.

The fur-like things around the eyes and front limbs are purely for courtship, they are not made out of modified feathers as feathers are exclusive to the silieus reign, instead its sort of bristles that are quite rough to the human touch. maanuls do find it entertaining to see them court and as a result of that, they get excited during the part of the year when they court. Creating safe temporary spaces on the beach usually being circle-shaped, all maanuls do is watch them perform and fall over, if they cant get up they come and assist them to put them on their feet again. Tepueh courting consists of them desperately trying to get on their feet (usually being pushing themselves onto a rock to balance on their feet, but more commonly maanuls help them to), then the bright ones will shake their arms. Extending them and vigorously shaking the bits that have the bristles, that when rubbing against each other rapidly, create a sound that can be compared to sand being shaken in a jar. the brighter the bristles, the better the sound, and the bigger the moves is what will attract a partner. Said partners are the dull ones.

I'm not sure if they're a unisex species, they might just be random individuals who get a certain boost of hormones that gives them bright bristles and they have to perform for the others who are dull, or if they're just bright males and dull females.

Like i said they're very pathetic on land, meaning maanuls carry them when they need to be transported on land for a reason. Central north maanuls who need to migrate once a year due to temperature drops in the far north have to carry their Tepueh pu on long distances, thus they use these attire, where they attach 2 tupueh pu per side, transporting 4 in total. While I'm talking about north maanuls, every other maanuls would also use this attire to transport multiple tupueh pu. Although said attire has regional variants in terms of designs, a rough look at what a northern one would look like here ->

as seen in the example, tupueh pu can have different color variations per region, While this is not the final look of northern tupeuh pu there would be light coloration from mutations. Tupueh pu are purely bred to be working species not a pet, so while color mutations are seen as a fun thing its not their priority or what they're searching for. While not a family pet it doesn't mean children do not play with them from time to time in the water. However, tupueh pu can be used as a service "pet" in the water for maanuls with blindness or other disabilities affecting vision that would require a service pet to navigate in waters. tupueh pu are never bred to be fancy but to be useful to maanuls, they're very grateful to have them and treat them with great respect.

While they are not house pets it doesn't mean they cannot be pampered outside of working hours by maanuls, being given treats, groomed daily by owners, and being treated with care for the smallest illness they could catch.

the breathing holes of tupueh pu are on each side of their back, due to being aquatic for quite a while their opperculums had the time to shift to a more convenient place for quick gasp of air at the surface. Their maanul owners however do not, maanuls when wanting to breathe before swimming again need to get on their back once reaching the surface, as their opperculums are placed here. While technically they could push air to enter their vocal vents and redirect it to the lungs its not something they do as they do not inhale enough air using this method to feel comfortable.

ocean shepherd as a concept (final version will be posted separately)

warning The cattle shown here is not the final design, they will not look like this once ocean sheperd as a concept are done and fleshed out in the future. this is just an example

ocean shepherd, or just called shepherd among maanuls, originally i thought of them guarding a group of smaller animals (small fish) tho the idea of one or three large slow domesticated cattle sounds more cool in my opinion and also easier to contain for maanuls overall. their cattle would need maanul assistance to live comfortably, maanul coming near them by canoe or even swimming if they're not so far. usually always have at least one maanul by their side who shifts their guarding job with other fishermen after a period of time. I imagine said cattle to be kept in a shallow kelp forest where it has all the food it needs, and little to no predators around to worry around. Maanuls might even sit on their backs during their shift duty because the cattle is docile and doesn't bother them doing it, plus they also need to get on them when they pamper them (by cleaning them)

this is my rough vision of it for now, while i have tupueh pu (tho its quite bare bones on this post) , i just need to design the cattle now, then write a whole long post about how maanul sheperds works.

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the vague shapes i did to figure out tupueh pu (in chronological order)

heres some fun stuff, i wanted them to be awkward looking, those penguins from subnautica were on the back of my mind while doing them, creature design is just doing vague shapes for me

#ms paint #ocean sheperd #digital art #my art #artists on tumblr #worldbuilding #speculative zoology #altuyur #2023 #maanul #tepueh pu #alien #xenofiction #concept art #sketches

[t34-mt]

part two of all the shit i did for artfight ref i cant do it anymore (need that morang necklace aarghhhh i need to but im so lazy now)

you can see part 1 here, and morang's ref for AF here too which is the first i did

yarey'lu chanter clothes! AND you can fianlly see regular eastern hat, hat post part 2 coming soon! monmartre note info, then Tekeh (third child of monmartre, this is his after GA version where he's normal) whos named after a bug that does similar sound too leaf bugs ("tekeh tekeh tekeh"), then kaasim ref. not a very joyful spy

#ms paint #digital art #my art #oc #artists on tumblr #worldbuilding #speculative zoology #maanul #sketch #kyhuine #yarey'lu #tekeh #monmartre #kaasim #alien #altuyur