Fiddling with Osborne’s beast form design. Since he has human hands and long talons on his fingers, I figured the most natural way for him to walk quadrupedally would be on his knuckles. It will be interesting to see what these proportions will look like when he stands up.
Here’s a fun story: the ghost island of 1831! It was given various names by the many men who claimed it – “Julia,” “Ferdinandea,” “Graham Island.” When it disappeared, those men mostly forgot about it.
But Charles Lyell, a good friend and colleague of Charles Darwin, was really excited about the island. He saw this underwater volcano as evidence of this theory of geologic uniformitarianism (the idea that the forces we see at work in the world today have always been shaping the world) and wrote about it the second volume of his major work. It was called Principles of Geology: being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth’s surface, by reference to causes now in operation.
You can learn more about lava (and see this story fully animated) in Skunk Bear’s latest video: THE LAVA AFFAIR.
“Obviously I gotta point out the height, and just his size in general. The fact he’s so much taller than me doesn’t actually bother me, but it’s funnier to make out like it does. I guess I’ll count that as the thing that makes me happy. Weirdly. The face markings are interesting, too, but they’re something I’ve never quite mustered the stones to ask about. Anyway I’m gonna draw him since I’ve done it for everybody else. Here’s your doodle, you massive git.”
