Happy Yian Kut-Ku Day!
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Day 4: Yian Kut-Ku
Despite being in quite a few games, I didn’t really know much about this relatively easy Bird Wyvern. While trying to find a good ref to draw from I came to find out that the in game models have a different amount of toes depending on the game. Also for a April Fools there was a special mission where a Yian Kut-ku would act like a Tigarex going from goofy and clumsy monster to a fast charging beast. I wish I could have fought it.
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Rathalaugust day 4: Yian Kut-Ku (catch up)
Yian Kut-Ku can come across as kind of pathetic, but I fondly rememember my first hunt of it. I found it pretty challenging at the time, and it was my first proper Flying Wyvern fight - it felt like a huge step!
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Yian Kut-Ku But how the icon looks
I noticed that some of the icons for old gen monsters looked kinda silly, So I thought that I would draw some of them like that. Here’s the original Yian Kut-Ku icon:
And here’s the redesign
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(2013) my very first digital art drawing done in deviantArt Muro
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(2022) redraw, also done in deviantArt Muro
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pink chicken, running bacon
I am ALMOST done with the MH1 roster, but added Bulldrome today, despite it being gen2, just to be done with it.
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Rathalaugust 2023 Day 4: Yian Kut-Ku
The Yian Kut-Ku is characterized by its large, fan-like ear frills that unfurl when excited and enlarged lower bill. They have a large, yellow beak with a pink stripe running central down the length of the upper beak. The lower jaw of its beak is significantly larger and bulkier than the top jaw. Yian Kut-Ku's body is covered in orange-pink plating and beige scales. Its wing membranes are deep blue and its eyes are bright yellow. These wyverns are small and relatively light, making them quick and agile. They have an extremely powerful sense of hearing, thanks to the large frills circling their ears.
The Yian Kut-Ku is capable of moving at high speeds thanks to its light weight and small stature. It is also able to produce flaming projectiles coming from its flame sac, which can be shot from the mouth at attackers. It can spew three flaming projectiles at hunters when enraged and move faster.
A somewhat temperamental, skittish, and inquisitive wyvern. Yian Kut-Ku have a tendency to want to appear bigger than they really are by spreading their wings, flaring out their ears, and squawking loudly. They are generally insectivores, preying on Konchu and other Neopterons as a main part of their diet.
Yian Kut-Ku can be seen inhabiting a wide variety of locations such as the Verdant Hills and the Old Volcano.
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Fun lil Monthter Hunter drawings, day 2 Yian Kut-Ku and day 5 Vaal Hazak
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Rathalaugust Day 4! Today's quest is the cuckoo Yian Kut-Ku! They're skittish creatures, but they're very territorial and will attack anything smaller than them, which includes hunters!
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Minoto will help us to make Kut-Ku-Day an international holiday on which there won't be any school!
You can help too by drawing a Yian Kut-Ku today!
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Rathalaugust 2023 #4
A Kut-ku for day 4!
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Day 2 is Yian Kut-Ku! I love this monster so much and it's really fun to draw.
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Monster Hunter concepts Pt. 3: Chickens!
What is next on our list? Of course, the very first winged menace we face in the original Monster Hunter: Yian Kut-Ku.
The Yian Kut-Ku is the basic definition of a Bird Wyvern: a small-sized wyvern with bird-like traits, namely its massive yellow beak, as for a technically limited era feathers were very much out of the question. However, despite the lack of feathers, this monster feels very much bird-like thanks to its thin frame and, most importantly, to its quick movements, and with that pink shell it is very reminiscent of a featherless chicken! The numerous shells and scales that cover its body reflect quite well the design phylosophy of the first generation, where monsters were covered in ridges and plates from head to toes. However, the design still feels very natural indeed, no scale feels out of place. The Yian Kut-Ku also sports the peculiarity of having large fan-shaped ears that make it look like a parabolic antenna, providing them a very acute sense of hearing to detect bugs underground, this also makes them vulnerable to sonic bombs and monster roars.
This defining trait is also present in its etymology: the name Yian Kut-Ku (Iyankukku in Japanese) comes from "Ear" (Iyan) and "Cock" (Kukku) as in rooster (what else were you thinking?), this was then romanized differently into the English name we know today.
We can't forget about the more infamous relative of Kut-Ku: the Yian Garuga. This monster first appeared in Monster Hunter Freedom. Unlike its pink cousin, the Garuga has a dark purple shell, a sharper beak, spikier ears, a silvery mane and a venomous tail, it can also throw fireballs like a Rathian. Its whole design is screaming "I'm the meaner, edgier cousin of Kut-Ku", and it truly is, as it is much more dangerous, as well as cunning enough to avoid traps. The Yian Garuga is designed after the motifs of a "Lonely wolf" and a raven/crow, specially considering its dark appearance and remarkable intelligence. Its etymology is quite simple: Yian Garuga (Iyangaruruga in Japanese) shares the Yian part with Yian Kut-Ku to indicate their close relation, while the Garuga part comes from Garuda, the bird demigod from Hinduism.
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