Fantasy Animals

[onyxhawke]

I ran across this set of pictures, and wondered how many writers actually visualize some of the creatures they put into their world. Spider-bats and or spider-lizard combinations seem to be pretty common, yet none of those here.

So for those writing fantasy, or even non terrestrial SF, how detailed is your mental image of non sentient creatures?

Comments

[archangelbeth]

What, mine? I have my Seraphim and Balseraphs sketches here, with the rest of my IN sketches. (Which I do not claim to be fine art; follow links at own risk!)

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

Oh, those are neat! I like the winged bear-thing. (Tebah?)

Actually, I was thinking of the half-and-half character from a book that I inflicted on Onyxhawke a while back. (He's quite sentient, but it was the closest example I could think of.) My attempts at drawing him didn't come out that well, though.

[archangelbeth]

Tebah is a Djinn -- a character in some fanfic that I wrote a while back. (Though, for fanfic, it has an oddly publishable potential -- should the game's publisher decide that fiction would be a good addition.) I tend to describe him as a bear-wolf with a dragon's tail and ratty paws (and the obligatory bat-wings, as he is a demon), with scales scattered amidst his fur.

And, er, you can tell that I am very pleased that someone likes my Tebbikins. *grin* Thank you.

(No links to your serpent-demon? Aw!)

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

Still searching for an agent/publisher for mine. A friend made me a nice avatar of him, but for some reason all I can find is his "nametag."

[archangelbeth]

Good luck on the agent search! I should probably not make teasing remarks about this agent-fellow, has a livejournal, posts interesting links to multi-animal composites, while I have a fever of slightly over 100F, though. >_>

(And darn that the avatar's gone missing.)

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

Thanks!
I'm certainly not going to tease Onyxhawke. He's been wonderfully encouraging.
I'm sure the picture's on my computer, but for some reason when I select what I thought was the right avatar, nothing posts. Weird.
Hope you feel better soon!