Use only ONE piece of art to convince folks to follow you. 🐛

#sworm #kumans #tardigrade #creaturedesign

Natalie is available for work! Here's some of the awesome characters she designed for #kumans!

Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book!

"The passage from womb to tomb is but a migration."

#kumans

Kumans book poster with concept art by Alex Ries, Manny Edeko, Ville Sinkonnen, and Christian ochoa

Sworm Concept art v13.2

Old sworm concepts art showing retractable beak tendon coming out from claw

Croal 2.1 concept showing an alien seastar crab creature. Work in progress.

Thank you, Emily, and congrats! I'm working on #kumans and I love to cook up projects for comicalfoods and design creatures!

Kuman bovine humanoid design by Natalie pellmann

Wish I could share more of Natalie's awesome designs, but all are under NDA until we finish the book! Here's one that we can share! A Bovine kuman by @foxcrusade.bsky.social

#kumans #characterdesign #conceptart

Kumans concept art and book art board. Art by Jess Lackey, Ville Sinkkonen, Lance Lopez, Alex Ries, Christian Ochoa.

Kraken and Dreggon concept art Art by Alex Ries and Ryan McCowan

💥🗣🎼🎵🎼🎶🎼🎵
Seas of Dreggon
Seas of Kraken
Seas full of
Espice and plankton
Seas that roar
And flow into oceans
Oceans that glow
And push us home
We will swim home
We will swim home
We will some home
Across the ocean!

#kumans #Bluepit #W #YA #F #SF

To escape a dying planet, refugee families must migrate on the espice belt, a wild interplanetary network of ocean storms & portals full of sea predators & espice cartels.
"Fish don't choose to migrate. They are forced to, for they are slaves to the ocean currents."
#kumans #Bluepit #W #YA #F #SF 💥

Kumans poster showing alien sea creatures, fish, and ocean divers. Art by Alex Ries, Manny Edeko, Ville Sinkkonen, and Christian Ochoa.

Now Cooking Up #KUMANS
An illustrated novel 💥by Christian Ochoa, Jason Piperberg, and Haolun Huang.
"I am kuman and nothing kuman can be alien to me!"
"May the espice flow."
🛸 submarines
🧪 Biotech
🌊 Ocean divers
🌌 Espice Cartels
🦑 Sea Creatures
🐛 #Sworm

#Bluepit #W #YA #F #SF
Original Art poster

Sworm Concept art with updated teeth design and chest pouches

Sworm! Latest design update.
This mouth/teeth design is my favorite so far. Also added some details to the pouches on the chest.
🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🪱

#sworm #kumans #specbio #specevo #creaturedesign #conceptart

Croal 2.3 concepts showing different seastar arm shapes and the defenses they use ranging from toxic slime to explosive sacs and electrical spikes

Coral 2.3
Designed some croals with different types of defenses. My favorite designs are the explosive and electrical arms.

#croals #kumans #seastar #specbio #specevo #creaturedesign #conceptart

Coral 2.2 concept showing number of arms a croal has during their life cycle. They go from a larva to a young croal and then enter a chrysalis stage where they grow their top shell.

Coral 2.2
# of arms and Life cycle concept. Young croals enter a chrysalis stage where they grow their top shell.

#croal #kumans #seastar #starfish #specbio #specevo #creaturedesign #conceptart

Croal 2.1 alien sea star concept design focusing on its defenses it uses against its main enemy the sworm.

Croal 2.1
Concept sketches for the croal's defenses against the sworm. Mix of spikes, slime, and explosive arms.

#croal #kumans #seastar #starfish #specbio #specevo #conceptart #creaturedesign

Old Sworm Concept featuring beaks inside claws

Sworm Concept with tentacled head slit mouth

Old sworm concepts inspired by caterpillars

Croal concept inspired by sea stars coral and crabs

Thank you for the share! I'm a concept artist working on some creatures for my kumans book project! #sworm #kumans

Croal 1.0 by Christian A giant starfish with a coral reef growing on its back

Croal 2.0 by Christian Added some Crab elements to the body and a mouth on top of the starfish

Croal Design by Jason Piperberg

New creature for kumans! I'll be working on the croal for the month of Jan. It's a large starfish & coral organism. Need to update its design to fit into its new habitat. Added some crab elements into the 2.0 vers.
#croal #kumans #starfish #coralreef #creaturedesign #creatureart #specbio #conceptart

Sworm 2024 design notes

Sworm 2024 design sketch

Sworm 2025 3d model by David Puffet

Latest sworm 2025 design

Sworm 2024 meet sworm 2025
🐛🐛🎉 its 95% there. Just a few more tweaks.

#sworm #kumans #creaturedesign #specbio #specevo #creatureart #conceptart

2024 sworm design

Last sworm update of 2024. 🐛 It's getting closer to the final design. 2025 is gonna be finalizing a bunch of concepts and writing more! Happy New Year to all!🎉

#sworm #kumans #specbio #creaturedesign #creatureart #conceptart #specevo

Sworm Concept art showing a tardigrade like creature oozing slime from its claws

Sworm 3d model by David puffet. https://www.artstation.com/davidpuffet

Swooooooooorm 🐛

Love seeing my designs turn into 3d models. 3d model By David Puffet.

#sworm #kumans #creaturedesign #3dmodel #specbio

If you see this, post something monochromatic. 🌑

My lovely sworm

#kumans #sworm #creaturedesign #conceptart

Sworm Concept with design notes

When you're both the concept artist and the art director at the same time. I realized I don't really share my design notes, but I love it when other people share theirs, so I'll try sharing mine more often. #sworm design is getting there!

#creaturedesign #conceptart #specbio #kumans #Dnotes

Day 3. Live bait 🪱

#alienfishing #fishmas #kumans #doodles

Alien fish concepts for the world of kumans

Day 2.

#alienfishing #conceptart #fishmas #creaturedesign #fishing #fish #kumans #doodles

Golden sworm concept

The rare golden sworm. Legends say it hoards sunken gold in its nest.

#sworm #kumans #creaturedesign

Sworm head design update

Sworm inner mouth tentacle design options

Sworm design sketches for the head and mouth. Tentacles and teeth designs to be worked on next.

Wasn't liking how the current head/mouth design attached to the sworm's body so I'm redesigning it. Referring back to its main diet of alien seaweed helped me stick to a concept that made sense for how it eats. More updates and notes to follow

#creaturedesign #specbio #sworm #kumans #conceptart

Alien fish concept designs for the world of kumans.

Day 1. Inspired by #Fishmas, here is my #alienfishing catch of the day. I need to catch up.

👽.....🐟 #kumans #alienfish #fish #alienfishmas #creaturedesign #conceptart

Sworm creature designs for how the mouth can extend out from its tentacled neck piece

Sworm mouth designs featuring a tentacled star shaped mouth with different types of teeth/beak configurations. Also showing surface teeth designs on the throat area

Sworm creature throat design options showing its extandable throat with openings containing teeth or just more tentacles.

No fishing today, but here's some more sworm concept art that didn't make the cut. But I still want to see if I can make the extendable alien tongue/mouth design work. I have some ideas 💡

#sworm #kumans #specbio #oc #specevo #creaturedesign #conceptart #digitalart #scifiart #worldbuilding

Some old alien designs for kumans

Neck deep in work, so I fished some old art from last year. Added a few new fishes. Went deep sea fishing this time! 🌌🐟

#kumans #fish #alienfish #fishart #conceptart #doodles #lineart #specevo #specbio #creatureart #creaturedesign #fishing

Sketches of alien fish for kumans by Christian ochoa. Fish are gathering as they inspect some fishing bait.

Alien fishing day 3. Caught some weird ones today.

#kumans #fish #alienfish #fishart #conceptart #doodles #worldbuilding #specevo #specbio #creatureart #creaturedesign #fishing

Alien fishes #2. Alien fish concept doodles for kumans by Christian Ochoa.

Time for some alien fishing and then back to work!

#kumans #fish #alienfish #fishart #conceptart #doodles #worldbuilding #specevo #specbio #creatureart #creaturedesign

If you see this, post a monster. I think Adam's monster would eat my monster if it can see in the dark

#kumans #fish #creatureart

Alien fish doodles

Alien fish doodles after work
👽🐟🐠🐟🐠🐟🐠🐟🐠🐟🐠🐡
Work's crazy busy so I'm gonna just be doodling fish when I can

#kumans #fish #alienfish #fishart #conceptart #doodles #lineart #specevo #specbio #creatureart #creaturedesign