... ty to zack 4 space

She walked into her room and sat on her bed with a sigh and started to draw. Suddenly, she heard static. Instinct told her to look towards the TV... but nothing was there, not even a snowy screen. She began to panic, because the static kept getting louder and louder until it was too loud to bear. And just when she thought she would break down and scream and cry...

...it all stopped.

She lay in her bed, curled up on her side while taking deep breaths. What was that all about? Where did the noise come from? And as she was about to dismiss it as imagination...

"Hi."

She instantly looked up at the sound of the sweet, child-like voice. Her eyes landed upon the television in the corner, and she screamed...

(Sorry for the long description... and yes, this WAS my nightmare.)

I dreamed about this guy maybe three times, then blessedly stopped... in the dreams I'd be walking along this boardwalk, through a forest. I knew where I was going, I knew he was there, he scared me to death but I went anyways. I could never see him clearly. I always seemed to be looking at him out of the corner of my eye. He was this fat old rich man-- he had a Mad Pierrot vibe, I'm sure that was an influence-- who had an enormous estate in the middle of the woods. He always wanted me to come visit him. Everything felt so sinister. I don't know why I kept going back. Usually in the dreams my dog would be with me. For protection, maybe? In one dream I somehow got separated from her and left alone with him, and I panicked and started screaming for her.

I feel I need to give this tutorial its props for helping me with the boards, even though in the end I basically did it a different way and just sort of took influences from the tutorial. Ah well.

Phoebus Hupza and Sheila, Sludick.

(Hey a creature is anything that's created, right?)
Sludick is the plural form. Phoebus' main job is to catch fish for feeding his wife and himself. His tail functions as a rudder, and his powerful hairy lower legs are used in running and jumping around(An excercise he performs often when he plays with the bunnies) and engineered much like those of a kangaroo to help him to avoid mines. His large toes are webbed helping him to swim faster to avoid the alligator. His head of heavy hair helps to protect him from flying coconuts. His wife, a female sludick has fairy-like wings. she has no trouble avoiding mines at all, as she never sets down on a spot which Phoebus has not already scouted. She loves to cradle the bunnies and coo to them in a singing sort of voice. Both are highly energetic... more if I get more time... I've got to move quick I hope to finish before 10.

He gets animals to come close to the water so the alligator can eat them.
He is a meat eater and He lives off scraps that the alligator leaves behind.
He has big sharp teeth and he is very fast.

I shall call it... the Macack!
This carnivorous creature navigates by gliding with large, expandable membrane protuding from it's sides. It's body sturcture is slim and light allowing it to glide at high speeds for significant distances on a strong current of wind. It's large pair of primary eyes has excellent vision, the second pair of anntena are highly sensitive organs used to judge wind speeds, altitude and scent.
The Macack feeds exclusively on small ground dewlling animals, which it can swallow whole with it's large, vertically aligned mouth.

Lets see thoughs fucking crack monkeys beat this >:P~~~

-jello-e underbody enables it not to activate the mines
-food source, MONKEYS! :)
-any thing that get in his way will be blasted into hell <:)

Just a sketch Idea for one of the creatures living in this forest clearing. The tiptoe mimics the carnivorous stemmed vase plant, and can also change color to match its enviroment. This creature actually follows the groups of monkeys because when they throw the coconuts down they hit areas where there are no mines making it safe to move around. plus their long legs keep their main body away from blasts. Their favorite food is rabbits. Although they will eat anything when hungry.
The long beaks are used to cut open and eat from the carcass, using it's long tubular tongue. They also have phospherous extensions on their heads to repel light sensitive plants, and attract small animals drawn by light. patient hunters yet fast moving when attacking or retreating to safety.
It also carries the marking of the poisonous raithpiller to deter attacks from birds and plants. O.K. I'm done. Again sorry it is only a sketch , but I really wanted it that way anyway. Just throwing an idea out there. :}

I don't draw monkeys often.

Hee hee. My favorite part is the prissy little tail. "Plants can't eat me cause I can wave my prissy little tail in their face!" ^^

Anways, these cats live in trees. Born in trees, die in trees, rarely leave the trees aside from getting water. They brace themselves against the trunks and latch on with retractable claws during particularly hard gusts of wind.

-snicker- The pansy-tail.

Edit: I forgot to mention how awesome this contest idea was. There's not many things I enjoy more than thinking up odd critters.

Well. First things first. The writing on the prompt was amazing, as was the idea as a whole--thanks so much, DinoFlorist!
This was the second entry I did; the first one I worked on for four and a half hours, only to have the applet go crazy on me (look at the front leg!), killing everything I had done. Here's the link.
This little guy has eight skinny, double-jointed legs. The first pair have an extra joint, and are usually carried folded over on its back. All of them are tipped with the claws you can see, made of three claws that close into points. When the winds come around, it can stick all of the claws into the ground, and extend them to give it more leverage. These also come in useful when catching rabbits and fish, and to jab at the alligator. The many legs distribute its weight over many small points of ground and so help to avoid the mines. It is camouflaged, and so is invisible from the creature-eating plants. As for the monkeys and their coconuts, well, lucky for them, these thingies taste pretty good. Can't be helped with that big body and skinny legs.
I'm really happy with the expression on the fish.
Edit: Compression killed this. And, eew, there are ugly lines on the left side that I didn't notice before.