The #sillyBestiary is now as complete as it had been for the last... uh... 6 years.
What now ?
It was a project who lasted 4 years and that I eventually stopped, mainly because I was getting disgusted with the running art theft at the time, especially with the unicorn, the qilin and Quetzacoatl.
Digital vector art of an antlered bunny with pheasant wings. This is a jackalope or a wolpertinger. He has a big smile showing his teeth, very very big eyes, probably bigger than his brain his, et deer horns on his head. His fur is yellowish with stripe on his neck and a spot of black on the tip of his ear. The wing is brown, with a row of blue feather and another of red, like a pheasant.
WAIT STOP EVERYTHING! I forgot someone for the #SillyBestiary !
I don't get HOW I coudl forget one of my baby, escpecially this one because it is BONKERS!
The Jackalope, Ladies, Gentlemen and Every One Else !
#digitalart #vectorart #jackalope #wolpertinger #crazybunny 1/4
Digital vector art of the head of a kelpie. It is depicted as a grey pony with darker spot on his neck, fin instead of ears, coral and kelp instead of a mane, gills on his neck and a very big and very pointy smile. Ponies shouldn't have that many pointy teeth, even in a goofy smile. You can't see his eyes because they are hidden by his kelp mane. The background is a grey sanded beach with mossy rocks and fogs.
4 digital sketch for the Kelpie. Top left is a thicker version of the pony, with fin instead of leg. To right is the same head, but with webbed hooves legs (look, I was trying things) bottom left is the sketch of the end product and bottom right is the same head, but again with webbed hooves
5 different color scheme for the kelpie, top left is blue green, top right is green, bottom left is white, bottom center is dark grey with a green tint and bottom right was the grey and spotted final version. I did a poll on Twitter to decide, guys !
The final version of the kelpie, but on the left, with a digital sketch of the beach and on the right, a loch with a castle in ruine and even more fog. Look, I couldn't decide either, that was the second poll.
And for the 29th creature of the #SillyBestiary, please, welcome the murderous pony, the slimy Kelpie!
Also the only one I documented the creation.
And it is the last one. I stopped doing those after nearly 4 years doing them. 1/4
#digitalart #vectorart #kelpie #pony #scottishfolklore #murderpony
digital vector art of a Carcolh, a giant carnivorous snail from french folklore especially Hastingues in the Landes. It is shown here as a giant purple snail, with a forked tail, four tiny tentacles on its front two under his globulous eyes and a giant drolly mouth, wide opened on its many many teeth. It also has a spiral shell with spines on top, teal and stripes with purple. It is oozing in a dark purple and black cavern,inside the tuc of Hastingues.
The 28th creature of the #SillyBestiary is a really obscure one. Even I, a big fan of mythozoology didn't knew about the Carcolh.
Yes, this is a giant carnivorous snail.
I told you french folklore can get WEIRD. 1/3
#digitalart #vectorart #snail #carcohl #frenchfolklore #letsgetweird
Digital vector art of a maneki neko, the beckoning cat, a creature from Japanese folklore. It is a white cat with black and orange-red marking (a calico or tortoise shell cat). He is sitting on a red cushion with pompom on every corner, holding a square coin (a koban) between his leg with his right paw and rising the left paw to the sky. He is smiling widely, looking at the spectator with mirth full eyes (or hungry? maybe hungry). He has yellow eyes, a little blakc mustaches and red dot as eye brow., the same red than the inside of his ears. He is wearing a green apron around his neck, with a red collard and a big golden bell. There is a golden circle with a japanese pattern behind him and a scroll with blue border as a background.
The 27th creature of the #SillyBestiary came from Japan's folklore, in the form of the cuddly Maneki Neko, the beckoning cat!
Who may or may not have been in the catnip again. 1/5
#digitalart #vectorart #manekineko #beckoningcat #goodluckcat
I could do an entire Bestiary with only French creatures some are so WEIRD, even for the #SillyBestiary. You will see in a few day.
So, for more information about the Vouivre, the English wiki page is less throughout than the French, but there is still the basis 4/4
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guivre
Digital vector art of the Vouivre a french "dragon". She (yes, SHE) is a bipedal dragon with a long serpentine body, a forked tail dragon wings and pigs legs. (look, french folklore is WEIRD). She is also wearing a golden crown and her eye is a red ruby. She has a big happy smile with a lot of spaces fangs and her long pink tongue is also forked. Her skin is green, except and legs, still pigs colored (pink, those are pink). She is standing on a lily pad, on dark green marshy water and surrounded by pink and purple lily flowers.
The 26th creature of the #SillyBestiary is the Vouivre. I mean Guivre. Or Wyvern.
This is going to be complicated.
#digitalart #vectorart #vouivre #guivre #wyvern #dragon #frenchfolklore 1/4
Digital vector art of a fox woman in a yellow kimono with a red obi and under kimono. She is kneeling, her tail flaming behind her. She is laughing, a hand her her breast and the other elegantly flapping. She has a big dopey grin, showing a few fangs and her tongue. She has thin eyes, in the tradition shape for kitsune. Behing her is a round with a square pattern of a japanese garden background.
Return to Japan folklore with the 25th creature of the #SillyBestiary ! And after the tanuki, here is the kitsune !
And again, one of my favorites but, well... All the creatures from the bestiary are, more or less...
#Digitalart #vectorart #kitsune #foxspirit #japanesefolklore
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Digital vector art of a werewol hplwing to the moon, mid transformation. He his shown as a man with a shredded red flanel, nearly entierrly covered in brown fur, except on his neck and his face.He is flexing his clawed arms, head thrown back in a holw with his lips comically pursed. There is a night sky behind him, with a big full moon.
The 24th creature of the #SillyBestiary is an icon of horror movie, the shredded Werewolf !
This picture is heavily inspired by the movie The Wolf Man because...
Well, just because. 1/5
#digitalart #vectorart #werewolf #lycanthrope
Digital vector art of a Tanuki, the japanese folklore version of the racoon dog. He is shown in sideview, as an humanoide with a racoon dog's head and tail, wearing a priest kimono and scarf, holding a red lantern in one hand and a giant alcohol filled gourd in the other. His eyes are yellow with a tiny brown iris, curved in a smile, like in Japanese manga. He has what may be the biggest smile of all the bestiary, and look visibly inebriated. There is a circle of leaves behind him and the background is a bamboo grooves, all in shade of greens.
For the... wait... *count* 23rd creature of the #SillyBestiary, welcome the mischievous Tanuki !
(shown here without his bollocks because I'm still trying to stay PG13 here)
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#digitalart #vectorart #tanuki #racoondog #japanesefolklore #creature
Digital vector art of a shishi with his head in a sideview. He is a leonid creature, with a round yellow head and a orangey red mane curling on his nech. He has a pompom and a bell hanging from his collar and his is holding a yellow ball with pink and red pattern. He has a big dopey smile, showing his IMPRESSIVE fangs and square cartoony teeth. He also has an adorable brown nose and big kind eyes with bushy eyebrown. The background is light violet with chinese style cloud and a symbol that I sadly don't remember the meaning.
Digital vector art of a shishi with her head in a sideview. She is a leonid creature, with a round green head and a orangey red mane curling on her neck. Se has a pompom and a bell hanging from his collar and she is holding her cub, a tiny orange one. She has a big dopey smile, showing her slightly less impressive fangs and square cartoony teeth and a long tongue. Se also has an adorable brown nose and big kind eyes with bushy eyebrow. She is looking at her cub, who look like just as happy and dopey as she is. The background is light purple with chinese style clouds and a symbol that I sadly don't remember the meaning.
Today, there is no 1 or 2 but 3 creatures for the #sillyBestiary, with a whole family of Shishi, chinese Guardian lion ! Daddy, mommy and Baby ! 1/4
#creature #chineseculture #chineseguardianlion #fudog #foodog #digitalart #vectorart
Digital vector art of Nessie, the Loch Ness mosnter. She is shown as a plesiosaur shaped blue creature with a big round body, a long neck and tail, a round, flippers on front and a round head. She has big eyes with the lower eyes lid rounding up and a big mouth with two rows of pointy teeth imbricated. She also has a black, blue, grey and red tartan pattern on spot on her back and tails ! The background is dark blue with a circle of water and sky in the middle.
Back to cryptozoology with the 19th creature of the #SillyBestiary, with the beloved Nessie !
Fun fact! The tartan pattern on her is actually the Loch Ness's tartan ! 1/4
#lochnessmonster #Nessie #cryptozoology #creature #digitalart #vectorart
Digital vector art of a young women, show in a bust in a sideview. She is a very pale, dark haired woman, with hair in a bejeweled updo, red lipstick in a grin, purple eye shadow and pointy ear. She is looking at you from the corner of her eyes, a fang visible in her cruel (but doppy) smile. She is wearing a red dress with paned sleeves in brown and red and a rigid collard, red with a black spider web. She is holding a glass of blood in her hand. Behind her, on a dark red background, there is a shadow of her true self A VAMPIRE (DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUN)
The 18th creature of the #sillyBestiary is the Vampire !
But the sexiest undead is actually quite recent, comapred to others creatures of the night !
More info in comments 1/5
#digitalart #vectorart #vampire #undead
Digital vector art of a gorgon head, maybe Medusa. She is shown as a woman with a slightly tan skin in a front view. She has big entierly yellow eyes with tiny pupil, a mouth open in a wide smile with a long of long fangs and she is sticking her tongue out. she also has reb curly hair, most of them hidden under a scarf and six snakes, three red and three green are coming from behind, all with a silly derpy expression. Behind her, there is a brown mosaic in greek style
17th (already?!) creature of the #SillyBestiary and we're back to Greece with the Gorgon ! Also, the 1st one to be in a front view because it's easier to draw her that way (also, an homage to Etruscan art )
#digitalart #vectorart #medusa #gorgon #greekmythology #monster #etruscanmythology
Digital vector art of Krampus, the Christmas Devil and Santa/ Saint Nicholas' assistant. He is shown as a red skinned and black furred devil, with long curving horns in a sideview. He has a very happy smile, although it is bordered with lots of fangs and a long pointy red tongue. He as big eyes, round with a tiny red pupil, goat ear with a golden ring and is carrying a pannier on his back. He is holding a chain on his shoulder and birch rods in his left hand. The background is a snow plains in gradients of greyish blue, buth there is a christmas wreath behind Krampus, made of dark wood and a red ribbon, with branches pointing on the top, covered in snow.
And as promised yesterday, here is the 16th creature of the #SillyBestiary and second Christmas card of the pack, with the infamous Krampus !
To say my family was confused is a bit of an understatement.
#digitalart #vectorart #Krampus #Krampusnacht #Christmasfolklore
Digital vector art of a reindeer head in a side view. He has big antlers, decked with Christmas bauble and a multicolored fairy lights and wear a red collar with bells. He is smiling wide, showing his square teeth and he is looking at his own nose, bright red. There is a Christmas wreath decorated with red berries and holy around him and the background show a snow field by nighttime.
The 15th creature of the #SillyBestiary is especially silly, because it was Christmas, I needed a card and I was full on the Bestiary.
So: Rudolph, the red nosed reindeer.
... Look Christmas mythos is still mythos!
#digitalart #vectorart #rudolph #reindeer
Digital vector art of Horus, the god of Sun, Sky, Kingship and a truck load of others things. He is depicted as a bust of a human man with darker reddish skin, the head of a falcon with a blue headdress and the double pharaoh crown, the pschent. His eye is wide open, his beak too is a big smile with a tiny red tongue and he look delighted to be here. The background is sandy yellow in differents shade, with a big blue and golden checkered ring and a blue circle in the middle.
14th critter of the #SillyBestiary!
And our very first God with the almighty Horus!
(I'm so going to get divine thundered one day)
#vectorart #digitalart #egyptianmyth #egyptiandeity #horus #god
Digital vector art of a pumpkin headed character, wearing a dark riding coat. The bright orange pumpkin is engraved with a big dopey smile and its eyes look at the spectator. There is small Will-o'-the-wisp getting out of its mouth and greenish spirits are coming out of the hole on the top of the pumpkin: a bat, a skull, cats, ghosts. The back ground is a dark night with stylized fog
And for the 13th creature of the #SillyBestiary, I call the Pumpkin King!
Yeah, I know, not a real creature, but it was also my Halloween card this year.
#vectorart #digitalart #pumpkinhead #ghost #halloween
Digital vector art of Cthulhu or whatever is the spelling, from H. P. Lovecraft's novels. He is shown in bust, as a green skinned humanoid, with his skull curling into a spiral, two rows of red horns a pointy nose and a mustach of longs tentacles. He is smiling dorkily, showing two rounded fangs and a red tentacle like tongues. He also has a bat wing, as green as his skin, and is covered with mussle incrusted on his skin. The background is a muddy kelp forest, and there is a stone ring with a unknown alphabet (hint : Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn )
And for the 12th creature of the #SillyBestiary, here is my first foray in pop culture with the terrifying abomination from beneath the waves: Cthulhu.
... well. Usually terrifying. It's about there I realized my super power was being able to cutify anything.
#vectorart #digitalart #cthulhu
Here is the 11th creature of the #sillyBestiary, the very intoxicated faun ! Or satyr. Wait, fauns are roman, satyrs are greek, both are goat boys.
#satyr #faun #goatmen #romanmyth #greekmyth #mythology #creature
Digital vector art of a yeti head and hands, floating against de blue background of high mountains and blue sky. The yeti is humanoid, covered in white fur, except the nose, cheek, lips and hands, pinker. His big mop of hair hide his eyes, but he has a big grinning mouth, showing square spaced teeth in his gum. He is holding an ice cream cornet with three flavors, mint, strawberry and vanilla, his favorites.
The #SillyBestiary 10th creature is the first #cryptozoology! Behold, the Yeti and his triple scoop ice-cream (courtesy of a reader, back then, who requested a silly yeti with his favorite snack! )
#creature #yeti #abominablesnowman #digitalart #vectorart
Greek sphinx (a sphynge actually) in a side view. She has a tan lion body with her tail curled into a square spiral, only one white bluish wing is visible and her head is a human one with big fluffy curly blond hair gathered into a bun hold by a white ribbon. She as a silly expression with a grin and a fang pointing out and hold one of her paw up. A phylactere is next to her, with the roman number (yes sorry) "IV, II, III ?" iykyk the back ground is in shade of brown, reproducing greek pottery pattern.
The 9th creature of the #sillyBestiary is also a full body one, because like the mermaid, I couldn't figure out how to make a simple bust of the Sphinx recognizable.
Yeah, I already post it last month, but I'm trying to get a nice strike with the bestiary !
#digitalart #vectorart #sphinx #greekmyth
Digital vector art of a mermaid, for once in full body, not just a floating head ! She is a blue skinned woman, with a fish tail instead of her legs and long dark blue flowly hair. She is holding her hands together and her mouth is wide open on her pointy teeth, as if she was singing. She has no nose, but just nostrils on her face and fins instead on ears. Her eye is half closed, giving her a seductive look, if she wasn't doing such a dopey face. The background is undersea, with yellow sands and blue water with a few ray of light shining down. There is always a big anchor behind the mermaid.
For the 8th Creature of the #SillyBestiary, here is the glamorous mermaid ! As in fish woman, not bird woman.
Fun fact! She nearly was drawn as a blond and pink skinned pin-up, but in the end, I went with the more fishy color palette.
#creature #mermaid #digitalart #vectorart #fantasy #folklore
Digital vector art of a phoenix, shown as a red bird. He has a long neck, with red comb and wattle and orange feathers around his beak and eyes. His wing is opened behind him in an elegant show, with a gradient of red to yellow feathers. His beak is pointy with the tip orange and opened in a wide smile with a dark pink tongue and he is looking to the top, his eye curved anime style with his red iris on the top. He has a flame coming out his mouth and other from the tip of his comb and wing feathers. He is in a vaguely square blue bubble showing blue cloud behind him, but the back ground has a dark blue sky and golden cloud.
The 7th creature of the #SillyBestiary is the flamboyant phoenix, the immortal fire chicken from Greek mythology.
And I have to say: I'm rather proud of his dumb stare. I can almost hear him go KWAK!
#digitalart #vectorart #phoenix #phenix #greekmyth #creature #firebird
Digital art of an asian dragon, with only its long neck head and one arm(?) visible. The dragon is blue, with paler square scales on its throat and a mane the same color. It has a long face, a bit like a horse or deer, with floppy ears, deer horns and a very big mouths in a toothy smile. His eye is very big with a very tiny irise. The back ground is a chinese style watercolor of moutains in dark on a yellowish paper, with dark blue silk border on top and bottom.
Here is our 6th guest from the #SillyBestiary, with the asian dragon, aka Long, Jiao-Long, Yong, Ryu, Rồng and plenty others names. One of my favorite critters, but here is a tip: I love everything dragons 🐲
#dragon #asiandragon #myth #creature #digitalart #vectorart
Digital vector art of a pegasus, a winged horse. As usual, you can only see his head and neck as well as a wing, attached next to his neck. He is a white cream horse, with feathers instead of a mane and a big globulous eye, lined in brown because maybelline (also, the eyes wasn't readable on white on cream). He has a tiny mouth smiling, full of square teeth and look like he forgot his brain in his manger. There is a pale blue circle with a border of Greek square spirals behind him and on the background, a gradient of dark blue with lighter cloud with Greek spirals.
The 5th creature of the #sillyBestiary is the noble steed of heroes... ok, look. Look I can't take him seriously. never will, never can, thanks Saint Seiya and it's french opening.
So Pegasus. Head of a horse, brain of a bird.
#Creature #mythology #pegasus #greekmyth #digitalart #vectorart #PONY
Digital art of the mesoamerican serpent deity Quetzalcoatl. It show him as a feathered snake, floating over the background as all the silly Beasties are. He has a green body with a yellow belly and a red crest all along. His head is green with a blue nose, eyes brow and curling horns, his lips are yellow and he has a mane of red feathers. He is grinning wide with lots of fangs and two tongues who are curling in different directions. A wings is behind him with rows of green, cyan, blue, mauve and purple feather. The background behind him look like a forest and blue sky, except the pattern of clouds and trees look like traditional weaving pattern from Mesoamerica
Fourth creature of the #SillyBestiary: The Noble and multicolored Quetzalcoatl !
And The third of the most stolen art trio with the unicorn and the Kirin.
I had the MOST fun with the feathers !
#Creature #mythology #featheredserpent #mesoamericanmyth #digitalart #vectorart
Digital vector art of a Kirin or asian unicorn from the Silly Bestiary. The pciture show the head and neck of a draconic looking pony, with deep green scales and a row of red scale on its front head and belly and golden hair on its neck, chin and eyebrow. You can see one of its leg prancing, with cloven hoove, green scales and a line a red square scales in front of her legs. Next to its shoulder is a red stylized flaming ball. The background is a yellow sky gradient with a series of chinese style clouds. Like every other Silly Bestiary's creature, they have a big doppy grin with one rounded fang poking out and her eye is smiling in a curved line, manga style
Here is the third creature from the #SillyBestiary, one of the three more stolen of the lot, the colorful Kirin ! (or Qilin, K'ilin and much other spelling).
#digitalart #vectorart #kirin #creature #asianunicorn #mythology
Digital vector art of the head of a green dragon floating against a background of flames. He has green bat wing,horns, and a forked tongue. He also, like yesterday's unicorn, had globulous eyes and a loopy smile.
Second critter of the #SillyBestiary !The spicy Chameleon known as the (european) DRAGON !
Yeah, because the asian dragon will have his spot light too. Not sure if he is happy about it...
#creature #dragon #vectorart #digitalart
And so, the Silly Bestiary Project was born (Le Bestiaire Ahuri en français).
Don't worry, no one is safe, here be dragons, quetzacoatl, kirin, carcohl, tanuki, even Chtulhu isn't spared.
So buckle up and follow the tag #SillyBestiary for more empty headed creatures, I have 29 in stock !
