I just had to do it my way. Ships at sea. That was unquestionably the spiritual underpinning of this piece. Writing and illustrating a book about alien animals can be a tight-rope act. Spending the greater part of their lives dormant, these enormous creatures rise from the loamy soil to wander ponderously from one breeding ground to the next.
Like many huge animals on Darwin, the Grovebacks are dependent upon a protein-rich food-source composed of tiny aerophytes, micro-flyers that sometimes darken the sky with their numbers. Physical motifs, like the broad curves on the Groveback, were used repeatedly throughout the book to convey a sense of shared evolution the planet. Equipped with a hyper-developed set of halteres for balance, the flexible-bodied animal can turn on a dime eluding most predators with ease.
As one of the last ones executed, this is pretty much where I was heading from the beginning, but the journey had taken on a life of its own.
If I had one thing to change about the physical rendering of the paintings in the book, it is that I would probably not have worked on stretched canvas. With that said, I think this is the most successful of the canvas pieces, a painting where, for me, the composition and technical application of paint seemed most satisfying. Sac-backs roam these featureless wastes, walking with their awkward, three-legged gait from one group of buried females to the next.
At each harem they will stop to either share their sack-stored food with their inert mates through their extended proboscises or mate with them in one of the more bizarre procreation rituals on the planet. The weird region around the Amoebic Sea seemed to me to be the perfect place to push the envelope in terms of designing stranger creatures. Also, when I began to conceive the Sac-back, I was nearing the end of my personal design odyssey and wanted to make sure that I had enough really odd creatures in the book.
All artwork copyright Wayne Barlowe or its respective copyright holder. Not that I was aware of the project, as such, at the time; I had simply set out to do an alien wildlife painting. Aided by the benevolent and technologically superior alien race, the Yma, humanity begins to repair their ravaged world while simultaneously learning more expeditin the universe around them. They made first contact with Humans in the early 23rd century, finding an Earth devastated by pollution and ecological decay.
No question that I was thinking about elk here. This program was faithful to the book in its presentation of the lifeforms found on Darwin IV. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Any use of any of the materials on this site other than for private, noncommercial viewing purposes is strictly prohibited.
This expeditiom about a s science fiction novel is a stub. Writing and illustrating a book about alien animals can be a tight-rope act. Faster and more agile, the Rayback can out sprint the Arrowtongue and, as a result, bralowe tackle prey such as low-feeding expeidtion, young herd animals or ambushed Gyrosprinters. As one of the last ones executed, this is pretty much where I was heading from the beginning, but the journey had taken on a life of its own.
Barlowe Designed by Wayne D. Do not use without permission. Their fingers are much more thinner and lack fingernails or claws. During mating season the chill air is rent with the sounds of their bugling, an eerie call created by the inflation an deflation of their antler-bladders.
The weird region around the Amoebic Sea seemed to me to be the perfect place to push the envelope in terms of designing stranger creatures. Spending the greater part of their lives dormant, these enormous creatures rise from the loamy soil to wander ponderously from one breeding ground expeditiln the next.
Sac-backs roam these featureless wastes, walking with their awkward, three-legged gait from one group of buried females to the next. Nothing like a bit of comic-relief in an otherwise savage eco-system.
There was to be no hair, no eyes or external ears. I really wanted this creature to be big and threatening, my version of what might have evolved along T-rex lines on another planet. Also, when I began to conceive the Sac-back, I was nearing the end of my personal design odyssey and wanted to make sure that I had enough really odd creatures in abrlowe book.
Aided by the benevolent and technologically superior alien race, the Yma, humanity begins to repair their ravaged world while simultaneously learning more about the universe around them. Science fiction, speculative evolution. Like many huge animals on Darwin, the Grovebacks are dependent upon a protein-rich food-source composed of tiny aerophytes, micro-flyers that sometimes darken the sky with their numbers. It was an early idea to do an aerial painting — a tip of my hat to all the aviation art I enjoy so much.
Bearing a huge, curved nasal-lance, they are almost playful in their methods of dispatching prey tossing their victims expeditioh mid-air from one expeditiin another until it is completely drained of fluids. Most of the expediton fauna, save humans, have suffered horrible mutation. All artwork copyright Wayne Barlowe or its respective copyright holder. At each harem they will stop to either share their sack-stored food with their inert mates through their extended proboscises or mate with them in one of the narlowe bizarre procreation rituals on the planet.
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