The following trio of images were created in Adobe Illustrator about three years ago, while I was attempting to learn how to use the program better through experimenting. None of these are intended to represent any actual living species, but they all draw from things that do exist in nature.
This first image was my first non-job-related creation; it's just an improbably stylized wasp:
Not particularly aerodynamic, but if bumblebees can manage, why not this monstrosity?
After that, I started to think more about function (while illustrating a dragonfly for a project for work), and came up with the following:
In the case of this 'anglerfly,' I was envisioning a nocturnal odonate (damselfly/dragonfly order) with an anglerfish-like bioluminescent lure at the end of its abdomen. Added in some long, grasping front legs, which seem almost unfair considering that odonates also have extendable lower jaws (not very well pictured here).
Finally, here is a subterranean beetle-y thing loosely inspired by an ant lion larva mixed with a mole (and possibly influenced by 'Tremors,' as so much of my life is):
I pictured this beastie burrowing into loose sand and lying wait for prey passing above, which it then jabs with its prominent jabby-legs (the technical term- can be tucked against either side of the body when actively burrowing). The fuzz at the joints and body segments is fairly typical for digging insects.
After all of these ridiculous, vicious-looking spiky things, I do believe I owe you a pygmy seahorse sometime soon.
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