This assignment really challenged me. Creature creation is not something I've really explored, but I found that I really enjoyed wracking my brain to think of an interesting way to combine animals. I went easy on myself and chose only two, pangolin and a basset hound.

A Bear, Snake and Fox

A rough sketch of a baby duck, porcupine, and bunny. Added a cute flower for a hate to my sketch.

Here is my odd looking creature.

Combined a flacon, Rhino, and goat, the wings were pointless either way with how his body is built, so they're just decoration.

Lo and behold my Jerbeevil shrew (a elephant shrew + a weevil + a jerboa

A Falco-octophant or Falco-elepus

Armadillo + Addax + Ring-tailed lemur. Don't usually draw animals but was a good challenge.

I actually made two attempts. My first one was trying to be a mashup of a lamprey, puffin and a planarian (a planarian is a flatworm which you can cut up into dozens of pieces and each piece can grow into a new worm. Notably, their mouth is tentacle in the middle of their body). I was uh, disappointed with that one, so I tried again today! My new attempt is a porpoise + Glaucus atlanticus and I feel like it turned out kind of cool! I really wanted to give it countershading, so I gave it some color. :)

This is my bio mashup, Gorilla, Tiger with deer. This was super fun.

Here is my bio mashup. I had so much fun doing it ! I am so glad there are imagination exercises as well, I really do need some. I tried and mixed a long maned wolf, a jerboa and a porcupine. I ended up using colors as well because I had ideas about the fur pattern, so I wanted to put it down on "paper"

I was lucky enough to get 3 pretty cool looking quadrupeds as random animals and this is what I came up with. I did give it a little bit of a background and a simple value system for fun, though of course these are subject to change if we color this sketch later on in the course. Once again, excited for week two!

I did a mix of a snowshoe hare, stoat, badger and flying squirrel! This was super fun.

I combined a horse, a cheetah, and a hawk to make this fierce creature.

Here is my creature. It has a bear’s head, the body of an owl, bandit snakes for a tail and tiny rat hands.

Tried to do something between a dog and an owl.

Here's my imaginative bonus assignment, a Bio-Mashup of a Red Panda, Labrador Retriever and Zebra. I know the assignment only asked for a drawing, but I wanted to see how it would look in color so I went ahead and finished it in color, using Clip Studio Paint.

A mix of animals and a strange fish!

Wolf, bear and beaver.