Arxur 10/10 - I've been having trouble trying to visualize just what size their claws are, this helps tremendously
Zurulian 9.5/10 - The broader and elevated chest makes alot of sense, though I can't recall why. Reminds me of a more cuddly [runebear](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.OE3PGxG9JaBy9n8wupnQcgHaEK?pid=ImgDet&dpr=1.3)
Venlil 10/10 - Bro is most definitely on something
Gojid 15/10 - Literally perfect. This is **the** gojid, any other representation is a false idol
Yotul 9/10 - Head empty, no thought
Harchen 8/10 - Bro somehow manages to give a overwhelming feeling of "don't look at me, I'm naked".
Karakotl 9.5/10 - Shoebill looking mofo "[*screams of the damned*](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kDMHHw8JqLE)"
Kolshian 9/10 - How the fuck did these guys manage to do so much fucking damage
Mazic 15/10 - The unrelenting wrath of a gorilla combined with the cold, patient, malicious planning of a Elephant. This piece strikes fear into me.
Tilfish 10/10 - Smash
Sulean 10/10 - Very majestic
Iftaly 9/10 - Offended rodent camel
> Tilfish 10/10 - Smash
The funny part about this answer is the there's a lot of overlap between the xenophobic and xenophilic camps of the community in how they'd answer.
For most people if depending on weather or not the spider is fluffy or not. I mean look at Lucas the spider vs any spider themed villain
And since Tilfish are canonicaly hairless I actually lean more towards the xenophobic side lmao
When you think about it peoples dislike the tilfishs for the same exact same reason prey species dislike the humans (instincts making them repulsive to most peoples). Sad.
The translators can. Plus come on bugs look good and they're so much more varied and interesting than mammals, i dont get peoples who are repulsed of bugs. Fur is overrated keratin is the shit.
[bet](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.7lhusoeX0NIMUOYeZpoNAQAAAA?pid=ImgDet&dpr=1.3).
Though all the ones that I've seen of any real quality are r34 so like F ig
As i said, stylised. It's very humane there's not much bug parts, no pedipalps, no bug legs, no visible joints, no mandibles, just humanoid body stylised as buggish
It is human nature to see what you want, and ignore the unpleasant. Have what you don't have, and take for granted what you do. Hate in yourself what others adore.
If we were not in constant opposition with ourselves, we would have nothing to prove, nothing to desire, and nothing to strive towards.
The more you hate something the more you love it in a twisted sort of way.
So that is to say if I wanna fuck a alien spider chances are one little change is enough to change lust to disgust.
With how chaotic the Yotul seem.
I couldn't help to give them cold hellish dead eyes that just seem like they stare past you.
There are either no thoughts behind them or thoughts you don't want to know.
See, if humans had been the first meat eaters that had met the Kolshians, instead of the Krakotl, we would have known not to trust tentacled monstrosities from the stars.
H.P. Lovecraft may have been a racist fuck, but he knew that you can't trust tentacles!
Love all of these, though the Kolshian one for some reason doesnt quite sit right for me
Also where are the humans, the humans are the strangest aliens smh
Pretty good.
In my head the Zur's are more shaggy furred like certain dog species, and the Crack-birds have 'hands' (bat like graspers but more developed. My brain says a thumb and two or three fingers, all with small claws.
That was the original intent funny enough, Human "as seen by the federation".
And a page for the Dossar and Sivkit.
Though I could barely keep going after page 4.
I love the Mazic for this, I don't think I've seen it portrayed in art before and you did it perfectly, and it isn't just a pink elephant it's its own thing. Mainly I like the stuff that doesn't get portrayed a lot. the venil and gojid are good, but they have already been portrayed
Man, yotul head is looking strange, first and foremost it doesn't look big enough and also don't resembled a coconut doggie yes I do think they have a more triangular head than actual capybara but you made it 2 much, also the venlil is kinda strange idunno, but the rest? Chess kiss loved the mazic, sp15 basically confirmed that your depiction of gojid is cannon so it literally can't be more perfect than that, love your art work â¤ď¸.
Thanks for the advice. The worst thing is that I'm pretty sure I shrank the Yotul's head thinking it was too big :D
I could never picture them as capybaras personally, the Yotul seem too feisty for the peace rodents. And it was mentioned that Onso was hopping around which makes me think they're closer to kangaroos or wallabys.
I had a couple different marsupials in mind to mix them together. Numbats, opossums and Tasmanian tigers.But I think in future art I would make them more like bandicoots.
It's my interpretation anyway.
It was mentioned that they have cub like ears and I assume if they looked more canine it would have said pup like.
Every Human's reaction to them is for their heart to melt, even in dire situations like with Meier, and children would without prompting hug Zurulian Doctors.
So that kinda says they resemble something every human would associate with cuteness and happiness.
In my mind's eye I picture Tilfish as black Geonosians, but with fly heads. Kolshians to me have more tentacles. Mazics with a more cylindrical body, but I like this version better.
Gojids I thought had more spines elsewhere, not just on the back? Expected the tail to be thinner.
I like how you made the Arxur look a little bit malnourished.
Thanks for the feedback :D
Hope more people will try making their own designs as well.
Maybe we'll get more info on them as the story goes along, some of them only have a line or two of description. And whenever the info is missing I try to use inference from indirect descriptions around them.
Tilfish were tricky, ant/spider hybrids but we don't have too much to go off with.
I assumed that they don't deviate too far from real spiders since their appearance can trigger arachnophobia. Their weird chairs and some descriptions of how they moved implied that they use all six limbs for walking.
But I imagine they can get into a centaur like stance for carrying and using heavy equipment.
With the Kolshians I had to flip a coin between them looking more like frogs or octopus.
Settled on frog like creatures since they have tails, I believe it was mentioned when Tarva was helping the second officer out of the craft near the beginning.
That evolved from something similar to [these guys](https://preview.redd.it/amjutlwvhii01.png?auto=webp&s=39cf7bc05d8b1dca264266565e454d46297460fb).
And taking some inspiration from Mon Calamari and Glukkons.
My idea is that they evolved boney legs to better live on terrestrial land while keeping the top tentacles for foraging, ~~striking down prey~~ and manipulating their environment.
I was tempted to use the titans from all tomorrows as inspiration for the Mazics but decided to go for prehistoric mammals instead.
Whenever the Gojid spines are mention they always talk about their backs, and since they bristle up I imagine they used them similarly to porcupines, facing away from the threat and backing into them.
Plus all animals with spines we have on Earth don't have spines on their limbs or anything except for the tails so it was a good guess to leave them off as well.
Their tails were described as ridged and couldn't do all the non verbal gestures that other species use. And they were used to slam the floor so they must be hefty enough.
Can't have the Arxur looking too healthy :D
I should have used some skin wrapped dinosaur depiction for reference. That would probably be good for someone like Kaisel.
I always imagined the Arxur as something like the Sangheili from Halo with a croc mouth. A bit like your drawing. Nice to see a visual depiction of what I expected!
It's not stated anywhere in the story, only in the wiki I believe that their front toes separated to allow grasping.
But yes I drew them with both opposable thumbs and pinkies, I figured with their size they might need extra grip with some objects.
Hello, I am currently working on improving the [NOP Fandom wiki](https://nop.fandom.com/wiki/The_Nature_of_Predators_Wiki) and wanted to get your permission to use this art for the species pages. Although we dont have canon art for the species, since SpacePaladin15 has commissioned your art before I think this would be the best choice to put on the page.
I just wanted to check whether it would be ok with you? (it would of course have a citation that leads here)
Sure, though it would be wise to up an addendum that they aren't confirmed cannon depictions.
SP commissioned two art pieces from me:
[Virnt](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureofPredators/comments/13ovu7a/earworms/)
[Jimek](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureofPredators/comments/11bwom0/jimik_having_some_fun/)
In the Jimik one there is a cannon depiction of a Venlil
In the Virnt one we have a cannon depiction of a Telfish and Yotul.
SP also mentioned that my Gojid designs are how he envisioned them.
(Though it's possible things had changed đ)
This set of artwork has colored my perceptions of the species for so long and I have to protest nub-eared Mazic.
From this point forward I reject that detail and will hence be imagining them to have like Indian Elephant sized ears. They are meant to somewhat resemble elephants, they evolved in freakin deserts where being beige was an advantage and in story Noah says Cupo has big ears. It looks very nice but my sense of logic will not allow smaller than cow ears
Zebras, i'm pretty sure, have their pattern to ward off bugs, does this mean that the Suleans had to fend off a bunch of bugs, therefore have some kind of bug-phobia, and therefore might have had a similar reaction to us when Tilfish?
Our innate fear of spiders (and snakes) probably comes from two things.
The fact that we evolved from climbing creatures, that later evolved to creatures that use our hands for grabbing. Which meant putting your hands in places were creatures with fatal venom could be hiding.
The other reason is that we lack fur which leaves us completely defenseless if we accidentally grab something like a spider.
Fear is the only way to defend against that.
So I don't think Sulean would really care about spider like creatures, at least not as much as Humans. Striped patterns seem to be there to ward of flying bugs that would bite them because they get confused.
Another reason for stripes is that they mess with senses, makes it harder to determine their size and distance which makes a predator less eager to choose them for a hunt.
When I was drawing the Sulean and staring at them for long enough it started messing with my vision funny enough.
Hello, I would like to mske a request about using this art, if possible.
Explanation: basically I am trying to put together a cover for my fanfic in preparation of eventually possibly putting it on RoyalRoad, and my plan is to have Jade Novikhan and Zeleveya on it. The angles would be very tricky meshing the 3d model of Jade that i have with a 2d drawing, and it seems like your venlil picture might be the most viable angle of a high quality design to use as a base.
Are you alright with me using this as part of my design, with me crediting you for the base venlil appearance/model?
At the times when I made this the only description we had was a mix or an arachnid and ant.
(We knew that they had antenna's, that they had compound eyes like ants and six legs from their seats. I believe also the colour but I can't be sure.)
Wow, as always, I love your art!
Thanks as always. Great work with recent chapters btw, hope you keep up the good work. I really appreciate the coins btw :D
Arxur 10/10 - I've been having trouble trying to visualize just what size their claws are, this helps tremendously Zurulian 9.5/10 - The broader and elevated chest makes alot of sense, though I can't recall why. Reminds me of a more cuddly [runebear](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.OE3PGxG9JaBy9n8wupnQcgHaEK?pid=ImgDet&dpr=1.3) Venlil 10/10 - Bro is most definitely on something Gojid 15/10 - Literally perfect. This is **the** gojid, any other representation is a false idol Yotul 9/10 - Head empty, no thought Harchen 8/10 - Bro somehow manages to give a overwhelming feeling of "don't look at me, I'm naked". Karakotl 9.5/10 - Shoebill looking mofo "[*screams of the damned*](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kDMHHw8JqLE)" Kolshian 9/10 - How the fuck did these guys manage to do so much fucking damage Mazic 15/10 - The unrelenting wrath of a gorilla combined with the cold, patient, malicious planning of a Elephant. This piece strikes fear into me. Tilfish 10/10 - Smash Sulean 10/10 - Very majestic Iftaly 9/10 - Offended rodent camel
> Tilfish 10/10 - Smash The funny part about this answer is the there's a lot of overlap between the xenophobic and xenophilic camps of the community in how they'd answer.
For most people if depending on weather or not the spider is fluffy or not. I mean look at Lucas the spider vs any spider themed villain And since Tilfish are canonicaly hairless I actually lean more towards the xenophobic side lmao
When you think about it peoples dislike the tilfishs for the same exact same reason prey species dislike the humans (instincts making them repulsive to most peoples). Sad.
Its not like I can learn to understand pheromone messages
You can probably get an air detector translator thing
The translators can. Plus come on bugs look good and they're so much more varied and interesting than mammals, i dont get peoples who are repulsed of bugs. Fur is overrated keratin is the shit.
I mean the realistic hk is sexy af
It's not realy realistic, it's just stylized not very bug-y in itself. If you find some that is actually realistic i'd like a link
[bet](https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.7lhusoeX0NIMUOYeZpoNAQAAAA?pid=ImgDet&dpr=1.3). Though all the ones that I've seen of any real quality are r34 so like F ig
As i said, stylised. It's very humane there's not much bug parts, no pedipalps, no bug legs, no visible joints, no mandibles, just humanoid body stylised as buggish
For me it's not Xenophobic, it's just plain arachnophobic!
I thought you were the one who did the Tilfish anti-fear program? Bit ironic, I'd say.
It is human nature to see what you want, and ignore the unpleasant. Have what you don't have, and take for granted what you do. Hate in yourself what others adore. If we were not in constant opposition with ourselves, we would have nothing to prove, nothing to desire, and nothing to strive towards. The more you hate something the more you love it in a twisted sort of way. So that is to say if I wanna fuck a alien spider chances are one little change is enough to change lust to disgust.
Damn. The amount philosophical thought you put in to fucking the bugs is impressive. Admirable, even.
The closer you get to the truth the more applicable it become to any topic you could ever possibly conceive
"Head empty, no thought" is honestly just like me, yet another reason to adore the Yotul
With how chaotic the Yotul seem. I couldn't help to give them cold hellish dead eyes that just seem like they stare past you. There are either no thoughts behind them or thoughts you don't want to know.
I wanna carry one around on my back
See, if humans had been the first meat eaters that had met the Kolshians, instead of the Krakotl, we would have known not to trust tentacled monstrosities from the stars. H.P. Lovecraft may have been a racist fuck, but he knew that you can't trust tentacles!
Are Harchen warm or cold blooded they might need a cuddle buddy.
Probably cold blooded like the life draining bastards they are (octopus is cold blooded)
No cuddles for the Kolshians, one century
Amen đ
Now this is some quality merchandise!
Very nice! Great work Artsmith!
:D
Zootopia all up in here.
Krakotl on da phone What he lookin at
Human death tolls... and memes.
The Kolshian is the only one I don't think is cute. Well done.
Canât wait to see Arxur in full combat gear of Human make, with a human made rifle.
And, hopefully, a grenade with a tendency for spontaneously exploding
This is Amazing! I must now reference a Zebra Deer! Now we just need a size chart.
Tillfish are upright.
Yeah the ant mimick spider picture was more accurate
This is honestly fantastic! Very well done!
Awesome! I love the tilfishâs little pedipalps.
Lemme yoink this for me models
Have mercy, please don't milk the aliens again :D
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Nah ill probably make them fight each other at a Burger King or sum idk
I couldnât even fight the Zurulians, theyâre too cute.
Love all of these, though the Kolshian one for some reason doesnt quite sit right for me Also where are the humans, the humans are the strangest aliens smh
Damn dude these look great!
I am willing to accept this uncritically.
Wonderful stuff, these are great but my head canon except for the Zurulians who will always be capybaras too me
I physically cannot imagine them as anything other than tiny fluffy balls of fur with tiny little eyes. I DONT CARE IF IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE
Pretty good. In my head the Zur's are more shaggy furred like certain dog species, and the Crack-birds have 'hands' (bat like graspers but more developed. My brain says a thumb and two or three fingers, all with small claws.
Now you must draw your take on the Humans
That was the original intent funny enough, Human "as seen by the federation". And a page for the Dossar and Sivkit. Though I could barely keep going after page 4.
Why is the Tilfish so adorable?
Big eyes, big head and fuzzy :D
I love the Mazic for this, I don't think I've seen it portrayed in art before and you did it perfectly, and it isn't just a pink elephant it's its own thing. Mainly I like the stuff that doesn't get portrayed a lot. the venil and gojid are good, but they have already been portrayed
Great job!
Man, yotul head is looking strange, first and foremost it doesn't look big enough and also don't resembled a coconut doggie yes I do think they have a more triangular head than actual capybara but you made it 2 much, also the venlil is kinda strange idunno, but the rest? Chess kiss loved the mazic, sp15 basically confirmed that your depiction of gojid is cannon so it literally can't be more perfect than that, love your art work â¤ď¸.
Thanks for the advice. The worst thing is that I'm pretty sure I shrank the Yotul's head thinking it was too big :D I could never picture them as capybaras personally, the Yotul seem too feisty for the peace rodents. And it was mentioned that Onso was hopping around which makes me think they're closer to kangaroos or wallabys. I had a couple different marsupials in mind to mix them together. Numbats, opossums and Tasmanian tigers.But I think in future art I would make them more like bandicoots.
Wait zurulians are teddy bears, i always thought they were labrador looking.
It's my interpretation anyway. It was mentioned that they have cub like ears and I assume if they looked more canine it would have said pup like. Every Human's reaction to them is for their heart to melt, even in dire situations like with Meier, and children would without prompting hug Zurulian Doctors. So that kinda says they resemble something every human would associate with cuteness and happiness.
My eyes have been blessed
The venlil kinda look like somethint out of Franbow or little misfortune
Yooooo I love it It reminds me a bit of the versions I made
Your versions are great btw :D
Iâve got the feeling these are going to become /official/âŚ
Looks amazing but I think the krakotl was drawn with forward eyes, looks really good.
Thanks, my bad. Should have done the angle better.
In my mind's eye I picture Tilfish as black Geonosians, but with fly heads. Kolshians to me have more tentacles. Mazics with a more cylindrical body, but I like this version better. Gojids I thought had more spines elsewhere, not just on the back? Expected the tail to be thinner. I like how you made the Arxur look a little bit malnourished.
Thanks for the feedback :D Hope more people will try making their own designs as well. Maybe we'll get more info on them as the story goes along, some of them only have a line or two of description. And whenever the info is missing I try to use inference from indirect descriptions around them. Tilfish were tricky, ant/spider hybrids but we don't have too much to go off with. I assumed that they don't deviate too far from real spiders since their appearance can trigger arachnophobia. Their weird chairs and some descriptions of how they moved implied that they use all six limbs for walking. But I imagine they can get into a centaur like stance for carrying and using heavy equipment. With the Kolshians I had to flip a coin between them looking more like frogs or octopus. Settled on frog like creatures since they have tails, I believe it was mentioned when Tarva was helping the second officer out of the craft near the beginning. That evolved from something similar to [these guys](https://preview.redd.it/amjutlwvhii01.png?auto=webp&s=39cf7bc05d8b1dca264266565e454d46297460fb). And taking some inspiration from Mon Calamari and Glukkons. My idea is that they evolved boney legs to better live on terrestrial land while keeping the top tentacles for foraging, ~~striking down prey~~ and manipulating their environment. I was tempted to use the titans from all tomorrows as inspiration for the Mazics but decided to go for prehistoric mammals instead. Whenever the Gojid spines are mention they always talk about their backs, and since they bristle up I imagine they used them similarly to porcupines, facing away from the threat and backing into them. Plus all animals with spines we have on Earth don't have spines on their limbs or anything except for the tails so it was a good guess to leave them off as well. Their tails were described as ridged and couldn't do all the non verbal gestures that other species use. And they were used to slam the floor so they must be hefty enough. Can't have the Arxur looking too healthy :D I should have used some skin wrapped dinosaur depiction for reference. That would probably be good for someone like Kaisel.
Idk why but I always pictured the yotul more as koalas than kangaroos or other larger marsupials. I guess this makes more sense though.
They're like if kangaroos could walk normally and had a capybara head.
I always imagined the Arxur as something like the Sangheili from Halo with a croc mouth. A bit like your drawing. Nice to see a visual depiction of what I expected!
Theyâre all so goddamn cute!!!
Do the Mazic have opposable thumbs \*and\* pinkies?!?
It's not stated anywhere in the story, only in the wiki I believe that their front toes separated to allow grasping. But yes I drew them with both opposable thumbs and pinkies, I figured with their size they might need extra grip with some objects.
that is amazing
Opposable pinkies are great
awww i love the Gojid!
Turns out your venlil were correct... As SPY from TF2 would say... *Très bon!*
Okay, tilfish extermination continues. They look like spiders.
But fuzzy tho... Honestly I don't think my depiction is all that accurate after more chapters.
In my mind its canon now. Gotta get Hans and the flammenwerffer now.
Oh, great job on the art, keep up at it.
Hello, I am currently working on improving the [NOP Fandom wiki](https://nop.fandom.com/wiki/The_Nature_of_Predators_Wiki) and wanted to get your permission to use this art for the species pages. Although we dont have canon art for the species, since SpacePaladin15 has commissioned your art before I think this would be the best choice to put on the page. I just wanted to check whether it would be ok with you? (it would of course have a citation that leads here)
Sure, though it would be wise to up an addendum that they aren't confirmed cannon depictions. SP commissioned two art pieces from me: [Virnt](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureofPredators/comments/13ovu7a/earworms/) [Jimek](https://www.reddit.com/r/NatureofPredators/comments/11bwom0/jimik_having_some_fun/) In the Jimik one there is a cannon depiction of a Venlil In the Virnt one we have a cannon depiction of a Telfish and Yotul. SP also mentioned that my Gojid designs are how he envisioned them. (Though it's possible things had changed đ)
Thank you very much.
Why are they all naked? Pervert.
Oh this is for scientific research.
This set of artwork has colored my perceptions of the species for so long and I have to protest nub-eared Mazic. From this point forward I reject that detail and will hence be imagining them to have like Indian Elephant sized ears. They are meant to somewhat resemble elephants, they evolved in freakin deserts where being beige was an advantage and in story Noah says Cupo has big ears. It looks very nice but my sense of logic will not allow smaller than cow ears
Zebras, i'm pretty sure, have their pattern to ward off bugs, does this mean that the Suleans had to fend off a bunch of bugs, therefore have some kind of bug-phobia, and therefore might have had a similar reaction to us when Tilfish?
Our innate fear of spiders (and snakes) probably comes from two things. The fact that we evolved from climbing creatures, that later evolved to creatures that use our hands for grabbing. Which meant putting your hands in places were creatures with fatal venom could be hiding. The other reason is that we lack fur which leaves us completely defenseless if we accidentally grab something like a spider. Fear is the only way to defend against that. So I don't think Sulean would really care about spider like creatures, at least not as much as Humans. Striped patterns seem to be there to ward of flying bugs that would bite them because they get confused. Another reason for stripes is that they mess with senses, makes it harder to determine their size and distance which makes a predator less eager to choose them for a hunt. When I was drawing the Sulean and staring at them for long enough it started messing with my vision funny enough.
Gonna save this one for prosperity.
Hello, I would like to mske a request about using this art, if possible. Explanation: basically I am trying to put together a cover for my fanfic in preparation of eventually possibly putting it on RoyalRoad, and my plan is to have Jade Novikhan and Zeleveya on it. The angles would be very tricky meshing the 3d model of Jade that i have with a 2d drawing, and it seems like your venlil picture might be the most viable angle of a high quality design to use as a base. Are you alright with me using this as part of my design, with me crediting you for the base venlil appearance/model?
You just want to use the Venlil design as a base for the model? Yeah I have no problem with that.
thanks.
Does the background colour of the aliens represent the colour of their blood? Or am I overthinking this and it's just a wacky coincidence?
For a few like the Venlil but I most just went with the colour that differed from the others.
Til fish stand tall, and I'm sure have a shell/exoskeleton. I never pictured them as spiders.
At the times when I made this the only description we had was a mix or an arachnid and ant. (We knew that they had antenna's, that they had compound eyes like ants and six legs from their seats. I believe also the colour but I can't be sure.)
always envisioned the Arxur as just Velicoraptors (the Jurassic park ones, not the feathered ones) standing on 2 legs and that's it, nothing else