Onironus

Hello all,

Recently I have gotten a surge of watchers, and as such, I felt it would be proper to inform everybody of what they can expect in the near to not-so-distant future.

Firstly though, I want to thank everyone again for their favorites, comments, and watches.  They are a lot more than I expected for the small number of devations that I've posted.


Since almost all of my posted artwork is Erytheia-oriented, I think a brief overview of the project would be appropriate as well.

Erytheia is a small moon, orbiting a super-earth in a triple star system.
Erytheia contains an atmosphere slightly thicker than Earth's and low gravity.  It has very little surface water, with its oceans reduced to three major seas that are devoid (as far as xenobiologists can tell) of complex life beyond simple phyla due to high salinity.  Since much of Erytheia's water is in the atmosphere, the greenhouse effect makes its global temperature high, and only in rare instances does a meager ice pack form at the poles.
The known groups of life on Erytheia are the akaryotes (analogous to prokaryotes), dikaryotes (analogous to plants), and thalmokaryotes (analogous to animals and fungi).
The euphytes, or true plants, are colored golden brown, burnt-yellow, to orange, giving the landscapes a dryish, savannah-type look.  Most common and diverse are the trichophytes, which are actually colonies, with individuals specialized for specific tasks (see Erytheian Plant Studies for a little more information) beneficial to the whole group, much like hydrozoan colonies.  Tall or spread out colonies are supported by proteinaceous exoskeletal walls, which are actually  the agglomerated bodies of dead phytids, supplemented with minerals.
The major groups of animals are the Loricates (see Wingfish) and Ctenopods (see Prawnshark), as well as Phyllocephalans and Mollifistulans (see More Erytheian Lifeforms).  Bladderbugs (see Aerocystid) are by far the most prevalent and diverse visible group among the simulafungi; with the subterranean eumycetes being comaparable in diversity to earth's fungi.

I think that's brief enough for an overview.  Please ask a question for more information.  I do not want to reveal absolutely every detail, but I can answer basics.

So for what is to come, you can expect a land-crawling, air-breathing xenoamphibian soon.  I have it drawn, but I want it colored first before I put it up.  Hopefully some ctenopod "amphibians" will follow.  I definitely want to put a more detailed picture of another aerocystid up, as well as maybe a tentative cladogram to show their diversity.  I also have a bunch of notes on trichophytes, and plans for a drawing.  In the planning stages is a conceptual picture of an Erytheian environment, but that will probably not come until I am more comfortable with my tablet coloring skills (in the doodling stages at the moment).

In what deviations follow, feel free to criticize and question.  It will challenge my own perceptions and make the science stronger if it can survive scrutiny.


So that is all I wanted to say for now.  Again, thank you for watching.  There are many great specbio projects on deviantart, and I appreciate that you want to follow along with this one.


Many thanks,

Dylan Tracey

So I just got a graphics tablet, and now a whole new world of art has been opened up to me.  I am experimenting with color!  Since I usually do pencil sketches, I'm always nervous adding color since I have not had a whole lot of practise, and if I mess it up, then I mess up the whole picture.  Now, mistakes can be clicked away, and all kinds of experiments can be done on a piece either scanned in, or drawn from scratch.  Definitely something I'll be doing more of.

So I'm not too sure how much art will be posted in the next while.  I had hoped to pay a lot of attention to my novel, but this tablet has become a new distraction.


Thanks for reading, and for watching.

I had said that Erytheia would not go up for a while, but honestly I could not help myself.  So I took a small break from writing and did up a bunch of Erytheia sketches.  A bit more shading and outlining and they'll all be up.


Thank you for watching and thank you for visiting.

So I had wanted for the longest time there to post some pictures from my worldbuilding project, Erytheia.  However, I have no real pictures, and just notes, so I have to draw something first.  But I have recently been in a writing mood, and my novel prject is at the forefront of my mind right now, so drawing is not happening for a while.  Since it is unlikely that I will be submitting anything for a some time, I figured I would post one of my old short stories, just so I can get something else on here.  I have improved quite a bit since writing it, so I would say it is a fairly old piece, even though it is less than a year old.  I'm not saying that it isn't my best though.  I'm not into posting things that are not my best.  I happen to like it, and I enjoyed writing it.  Hopefully others will enjoy reading it.

Well, that's all for now.  Maybe when I get tired of writing (hopefully not for a while) I'll get back to drawing and put something else up.



Thanks for watching.

So I finally got some time to put something up.

University is slowing down now, so I will probably have quite a bit more time to devote to posting some more.  Erytheia will feature mostly, but some pieces from other projects may surface now and then.

It feels good to finally have something up here.  It was very irritating knowing that I had a deviantart account, but there was nothing in it.  And for so long.

Hopefully more will come soon.



Thanks for taking the time to visit.