Animals/Creatures

Drawings of real OR fantasy animals and creatures (excluding creatures which look more human than animal).

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Oekaki Rules and Information
by Simon @ Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:13 am [Reply]

All rules regarding forum conduct, child-friendly content, and art use/creation also apply to the Oekaki, but there are also some specific rules that apply only to the Oekaki forums.

    Oekaki Rules
    • Keep comments polite, helpful, and relevant to the artwork. Do not start discussions or debates. Critique is allowed if requested by the artist but insults are not welcome.

    • Make an effort to post your drawing in the correct board. Continued intentional misuse of the forum categories may result in disciplinary action. You can view descriptions of what each board is for in the forum index.

    • Don't spam the Oekaki. Your drawing should show intention and a modest amount of effort. We do not allow random scribbles, simple shapes, or empty/solid color canvases, nor should you post advertisements for trades, streams, or other threads. Covered drawings must still follow the oekaki rules and have art visible, even if they are WIPs.

    • Don't create Oekaki topics just to share art you've created elsewhere. Art drawn in another program should be posted in the appropriate board (example: non-Oekaki adoptable characters go in User-made Adoptables).

    • Don't make Oekaki drawings with just words or puzzles written on them. The Oekaki is for sharing artwork, not for displaying a written message or playing a forum game.

    • If using an editable you must follow the artist's rules. This may include leaving a signature/watermark layer on the final image, or may prevent you from selling colored-in versions as adoptables.

    • Don't post blank canvases in the contests board. Contests may be posted there only if you provide a recognizable lineart or relevant background for contestants to use in their entries. If you don't need people to edit something in particular, go to the Regular Art Competitions Board to create your topic. You can still make a rule that your contestants make their entries in the Oekaki boards if you prefer it that way. For more specific rules about contests please view this thread.

    • Specific rules apply to the the Adoptable boards on the Oekaki:

      • The Oekaki is for making and sharing art in the Oekaki program. If you’d like to use another program to create your adoptables, please post them in user-made adopts or character design shops. “Cover adoptables” are not permitted, except for “milestone” adoptables in which case the cover must still follow Oekaki rules.

      • You may sell Oekaki art/adoptables for CS pets/items/C$, allowed offsite currency, and dA points/real currency. Keep in mind that CS staff are unable to assist with transactions gone wrong involving other site currency or real currency.
        • Any real currency discussion must occur offsite; please link to where you can be contacted. Do not discuss real currency transactions on CS.
      • Post your adoptables in the correct board. If you want to create just a few adopts, use the Adoptables 1: Independent/One-Off board. If you want to create a closed species, community, and intend to make many adoptables, use the Adoptables 2: Closed Species/Communities board.

      • Follow the rules outlined by the adopt creator(s). Many species owners have their own rules that you must follow in order to successfully participate in their species, so be sure to read their rules before posting. CS staff may enforce a thread owner’s rules if necessary. Note that species rules may not circumvent our official site rules.

      • All Adoptable Oekaki submissions must be judged no later than 1 month after their end date. Staff may intervene if the user fails to select a winner after 1 month. Failure to judge a contest after being reminded may result in a board warning.

      • Users are bound to the species rules published at the time that the user receives the adopt. If a species owner adds a new rule, they cannot punish players for breaking the rule before it was added. This includes revoking or rehoming adopts. Updated adoptable rules apply only to adopts made after the rule was published.

      • Paid-entry raffles are not permitted. You may not charge users for the chance to win something.

      • Competitions with entries requiring artistic/creative effort must end with a winner. The promised prize (in this case the character design) must be awarded at the end of the contest to an entrant, so be sure you want to give the character away. You may only change your mind if there are no forms that meet the competition requirement.

      • If you want to transfer your species to another player, then you will need to notify CS staff beforehand. More information on transferring thread ownership can be found here.



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    We have 3 versions of the Oekaki program to choose from. The newest version (ChickenPaint v2.0) allows you to use extra features like layer clipping, layer groups, and layer masks.



    Help:
    If you don't know how to get started, go to the Beginner Oekaki. When you create a 'New Topic' it will load ChickenPaint for you.
    You need Java to view it, and once you create and send a picture it will feature at the top of your new topic.

  • Gallery display:

I Am Scourge
by Larkspur1678 @ Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:12 am [Reply]

"And I have won"

Some style experimentation featuring one of my fav warrior cats ^^

Hawk WillowWatcher @ Sun Apr 28, 2024 9:48 am

Looks Good. lol the face reminds me of scar from lion King

bday soon!!
by shadow~wolf @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:29 am [Reply]

me and lucky! my bday is on sunday so i wanted to draw me and my son haha (i forgot to color my piercings ahhhh)

Rocky Road Raccoon @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:30 am

Happy early birthday C: this is adorable

Wally Darling @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:31 am

Happy (early) day of birth!

znailien @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 6:13 am

i know i already said it but
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHADOW!!!!!
Image

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A few flavours of my art style, I guess? I tried to not put too much thought into them to see how I draw
Y'know, my "style" is not really a concious choice most of the time
1) brainless doodle (bored)
2) semi-brainless doodle 2 (aka "I failed but I'll sort of commit now")
3) clean
4) brainless shapes
5) semi realism
6) cutesy
7) anime / comic (bold lines, exaggerated expressions, very pointy, usually lots of triangles)
8) "realism" (usually shows when I'm using a reference, this time I managed to pull some correct proportions from memory)
9) "when will it end" (when tired i tend to make things more monstrous / anti-aesthetic on purpose; tends to be a mash up of all above in one way or another; used mostly as cope, but I can shift into it easily if i'm feeling silly aswell)

Anyway, enough rambling. I'm just trying to make sense of how I draw things, but I doubt it's actually working???
Dang, do I even have a style???

ItsAsher0 @ Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:22 am

I think your art is absolutely gorgeous. Each one has an amazing new detail and I love how unique they all are if that makes sense! Sometimes it's difficult to find a style, I don't know mine either.. but genuinely, your art is so awesome!! :0
#7 is my favorite imo, I love the lines <33 I also love #9!!

Hawk WillowWatcher @ Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:51 am

These are my main moods lol

rye rye rye
by apricott @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 10:49 pm [Reply]

would you believe me if i said my main class in ffxiv is botanist
his second main class is barbarian

coffee.berry @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 10:57 pm

    OMG THIS IS SO COOL!!! one of your best pieces imo^^

apricott @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 11:10 pm

coffee.berry wrote:
    OMG THIS IS SO COOL!!! one of your best pieces imo^^

THANK YOU!!! 🥰 that's very kind of you, i'm trying so hard to draw again so that means a lot fsdghj 👉 👈

DevilishNightmare @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 11:13 pm

Cuteee

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Kitties UFA!!
by meisxinyi @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 1:38 pm [Reply]

It'll be turned into a ych, only the design itself is UFA. I'll close it in two days (April 28)




I'm thinking C$>art>store pets>designs>bulk wishlist pets
credit my toyhouse when you receive the character!

send a trade to bid!
BIDS
1. Strange_Atoms
2. N/A
3. N/A
...

meisxinyi @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 3:05 pm

bump!

meisxinyi @ Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:21 am

bump!

    slowly transcending into a swiftie because i just watched the whole eras tour and
    now the songs are STUCK IN MY HEAD. especially "delicate" it's so summery??!

    also hhh i'm not really angry just annoyed because. i feel like my friends don't
    like me as much as they like my other friends aa it's making me CRA.ZY.

    ANYWAYS how's everyone's evening/morning going??!
    transparent text below!!
    OK SO ON THURSDAY. Y'ALL WILL NEVER GUESS WHAT HAPPENED THURSDAY. so
    basically my crush and a bunch of our classmates were playing a game and our
    friend S (mentioned her before!) said "oh yeah [HIM!!] and vai like eachother :3"
    and his FACE BECAME SO RED GUYS
    then i said "NO WAY HES SHORT" and he was like "EXACTLY THANK YOU FOR THE
    INSULT<333" and it was so cute

strangetales @ Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:05 am

    is it chill that you're in my head?
    as a long-time swiftie, the title caught my attention heheh. make sure to listen to her new album, it's great <3
    also, cute drawing!

helo chat i am back from the dead (but only a little bit)
i bring with me
one art :thumbup:

Sealipup @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 9:54 am

    Wahhhh so cute!!!! Srsly love your pony oc he looks so cool :3

owmyeverything @ Sun Apr 28, 2024 5:01 am

Sealipup wrote:
    Wahhhh so cute!!!! Srsly love your pony oc he looks so cool :3

thank you :3!!!!!!! ✰

a2lsbA==
by bin @ Sun Apr 28, 2024 4:54 am [Reply]

hi chiikensoothie

a bit more accurate to the films, i didnt really like how it turned out at first, but adding some lighting really helped bring out the details that the other one was missing, and its very hard to tell what color burning's eyes are, because some photos show him having brown eyewhites with orange glowing irises, but some photos show him having orange eyewhites, with yellow glowing irises

anyways, i love how this turned out

bristly mandible of a nauplius!

♥ mizu @ Sun Apr 21, 2024 12:43 pm

this is amazing and SO creative. it's incredible how you can capture so much detail in your art, i adore this!!!! heck now i wanna get my own microscope xD

invertebrea @ Sun Apr 21, 2024 3:06 pm

♥ mizu wrote:this is amazing and SO creative. it's incredible how you can capture so much detail in your art, i adore this!!!! heck now i wanna get my own microscope xD


Thank you! I highly recommend getting a microscope! there is so much too see in water and soil!

♥ mizu @ Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:42 pm

invertebrea wrote:
♥ mizu wrote:this is amazing and SO creative. it's incredible how you can capture so much detail in your art, i adore this!!!! heck now i wanna get my own microscope xD


Thank you! I highly recommend getting a microscope! there is so much too see in water and soil!

gah i totally have to!! i'm stuck using the school ones for now, but they're pretty neat x) i've always wanted to look at stuff up close. i wonder how many organisms are crawling around on my skin rn.

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Trouble
by Rocky Road Raccoon @ Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:09 am [Reply]

What are they in trouble for? Theft, probably LOL

coffee.berry @ Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:11 am

    CUTIESSSS

Rocky Road Raccoon @ Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:12 am

coffee.berry wrote:
    CUTIESSSS

Thank youuu!!

ClarkG23 @ Sun Apr 28, 2024 1:58 am

Thickest thieves lol

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commision for Cade_ion
by berketexspet @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 2:50 pm Attachment(s) [Reply]

Hello chicken smoothie. today i have another commision. today is a commision for Cade_ion's smooth! it's an OMG so rare horse dragon fish looking think. eh, it's ok, i like butterfly wolves but it's pretty good for a not a butterfly wolf. this was a commison for 50 chicken dollars. I did a really long time on this and it turned out pretty good "this is bad and ai generated" i hear you guys (not my fans but my stupid haters) saying. "why do you say that" i ask. "because he has 5 legs! that is a sign it is ai generated* -my haters say. well i do indeed have an explination for that. When i was drawing this i figured that since it was mostly green, i would use green as the base color. i added 4 (four) legs to it and only later did i realize that the back 2 legs are blue! silly me! so, i proceeded to color over the one leg with blue (the leg closest to the tail you can see a little bit of green under the blue.) and i added the other blue leg. i know i could've removed it but since this commision was only worth 50 chicken dollars and not 58 chicken dollars. so it wasn't worth my time to remove the leg. (sorry if i sound mean don't be poor next time and i might remove the leg). I'm also commisioning anywhere between 3-58 chicken smoothie dollars for art because my mom spends all her money on cigarettes and lottery tickets instead of buying me chicken dollars so i need to do commisions for art, remember! the more chicken dollars, the more good the art! (Cade_ion learned the hard way)
(the attached image is Cade_ion's smooth)

have a smooth-tastic day!

picklediron @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:42 pm

hi berketexspet i really like your drawing and i knew which smooth it was immediately! also i think it's better with more legs!!! honestly i would have paid you more to draw more legs because it just makes the smooth so much better. superbly smooth-tastic work as always!!!!

tsu-bear @ Sun Apr 28, 2024 1:49 am

beautiful artwork, what a wonderful smooth

another cutie
by Mortveil @ Thu Apr 25, 2024 2:28 am [Reply]

yes

~bad_cat~ @ Thu Apr 25, 2024 2:30 am

so cute but be looking like this wings of fire rainwing lol
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=htt ... AdAAAAABAT

Nyarlathotep|Nathan @ Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:23 am

Mmm lineless art is always so scrumpdillyicious, you're making me want to draw more aha

Mortveil @ Sun Apr 28, 2024 12:01 am

~bad_cat~ wrote:so cute but be looking like this wings of fire rainwing lol
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=htt ... AdAAAAABAT


Thanks, yeah it's pretty common to use complimentary colours like this!

Nyarlathotep|Nathan wrote:Mmm lineless art is always so scrumpdillyicious, you're making me want to draw more aha


Thank youu, you totally should always fun!

parasaurolophus wip
by Cuervo @ Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:00 pm [Reply]

🎺

.henloimmabirb. @ Sat Apr 20, 2024 1:51 am

These look so good so far!! Parasaursolophuses are so cool :3

wanda. @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 9:07 pm

      am late to see this but omg,
      am in love with this sketch so far? its absolutely stunning .

Revamp To add the boys based on this drawing by AdamJ
by AdamJ @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 8:18 pm [Reply]

Cheza: 2 yr Sibe Husky
Addie: Dobe Pinscher
Molly: Goldendoodle
Dermen (Denny): Dalmation
Kian: 11 mo Belgian malinois.

turtleduck
by coffee.berry @ Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:37 am [Reply]

♥ mizu @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 7:09 pm

sooo flippin' cute <3 ><

coffee.berry @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 7:14 pm

♥ mizu wrote:sooo flippin' cute <3 ><

    thank youu<3

well its been awhile
by AdamJ @ Thu Aug 17, 2023 6:36 pm [Reply]

hopefuully itll one day be finished, no promises

coffee.berry @ Thu Aug 17, 2023 6:46 pm

    Looks amazing ^^

BlueEyedKite @ Fri Aug 18, 2023 12:30 am

Huskies?? By chance? I am only obsessed with huskies OuO

AdamJ @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 6:46 pm

BlueEyedKite wrote:Huskies?? By chance? I am only obsessed with huskies OuO

super late reply but yes!
Right one is mine, left was a work dog (i no longer where there)

Addie.
by AdamJ @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 6:42 pm [Reply]

been in my drafts for ages. finally finished it to the best of my ability lol.

I now have 5 dogs, no car, a mom with cancer etc so my life as just been a mess.
just trying to finish this year of school.

blue guy
by Draconica2014 @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 6:09 pm [Reply]

been a while

Leaf Sheep Hangin' with a Sea Bunny
by Emmyd1007 @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:49 pm [Reply]

Its just a leaf sheep hangin' with a sea bunny! (ignore the other stuff :lol:)

I put references to some of my favorate movies/shows! Can you spot them all?

rare cook
by rabbit.tears @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:03 pm [Reply]

kinda started as a sketch that would never leave the drafts but then i went back in today and finished it
that timer is indeed accurate, i left this open and took forever to actually finish it

referenced this pic from cs ^^

dualtail flag animal
by craig? @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 2:40 pm [Reply]

messing w traits id like to introduce this upcoming pride month...

LittleMaple @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 3:17 pm

I'd love to see this :3c

Cat practice
by rae sanders @ Sat Apr 27, 2024 2:46 pm [Reply]

Just trying to get use to this program again

Fwog And Friends!!
by Mimble @ Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:31 am [Reply]

Received this little friend from a very kind gifter and wanted to sketch him! That kinda escalated and now it’s a fully finished piece hehehehe
Image
Also one of my friends is currently frog obsessed so this drawing is also for her 🥺
Happy Spring!!

Hawk WillowWatcher @ Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:46 am

Love it!

Aizaka @ Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:48 am

:3 That's beautiful and adorable! <3

Mimble @ Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:47 am

Hawk WillowWatcher wrote:Love it!

Aizaka wrote::3 That's beautiful and adorable! <3


Thank you both so much!!! 🥹🥹🥹

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