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Description During another one of my attempts at redesigning the Andalites I basically went crazy and did a bunch of proto-lites. I love creature concept ahh
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Sirpurple04 [2018-09-07 19:45:26 +0000 UTC]

The one in the top-left is adorable, i want one as a pet! Lol

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TheDevilReborn [2017-10-25 01:09:58 +0000 UTC]

These are so cute, Tree must of been one of theses.

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ph34rmaster04 [2017-07-19 14:46:29 +0000 UTC]

I love the way you drew the hooves Ā I always imagined them having some kind of crushing and chewing mechanism. However, it never made sense to me that nutrients would be absorbed through the legs. Does each leg have an esophagus? Are they simply absorbing it directly into their bloodstream? If they accidentally absorb toxins, can they somehow emit them through vomiting? It actually wouldn't be that strange if they couldn't vomit, considering many Earth animals lack the ability, including horses and rodents.Ā 

So many questions... The world may never know.

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lackofa In reply to ph34rmaster04 [2017-07-30 06:44:26 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! But yeah Andalite physiology makes me so mad lol. I would love for a team of biologists to logic out how andalites might work because man they just make my head hurt when I think about them too hard rule of cool I guess

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ph34rmaster04 In reply to lackofa [2017-08-02 05:35:10 +0000 UTC]

I know what you mean! I love them, but they make no sense to our human minds.

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Dogman15 In reply to ph34rmaster04 [2018-02-04 09:23:23 +0000 UTC]

They're so wonderfully complex because K.A. Applegate (I think, my memory on the details of this story are fuzzy, so I might get some details wrong) was originally going to have the Andalites be generic "grey" aliens, but Scholastic didn't want that, so to make it difficult for any possible TV show to depict Andalites (and other aliens), she made them as unique and bizarre as she could.

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Cloud-Breaker [2017-06-25 02:51:26 +0000 UTC]

Very nice!

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JoeMerl [2017-05-11 06:19:57 +0000 UTC]

Interesting!

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Jessthenotsohotmess [2017-05-08 16:14:55 +0000 UTC]

These are pretty great ^^

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srmeyers97 [2016-07-28 19:58:19 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful

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Dogman15 [2016-04-19 09:40:40 +0000 UTC]

These are really good.

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paperstarlight [2015-02-21 14:08:28 +0000 UTC]

Axxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <3

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Weatherfac [2015-01-31 01:45:19 +0000 UTC]

Love it! I did something similar for my dragons ages back... doing it with Andalites is really spiffy.

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SpellboundFox [2015-01-07 05:04:59 +0000 UTC]

You're so smart!

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CrystalStar202 [2014-12-14 05:05:10 +0000 UTC]

The animorph series is part of my childhood and so has been studying evolution. So i love your ideas and think that they are very cool and amazing.

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mistakenolive [2014-08-14 10:53:26 +0000 UTC]

YUSS I had the idea of the hands having mouthparts too! I also imagined something a bit arboreal very early on, to explain the shoulders. The humanesque features are hardest to explain, especially the neck and "jaw" line.

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inkybee [2014-08-10 05:53:22 +0000 UTC]

omg these are so great I HAVE ALSO WONDERED HOW A CREATURE COULD HAVE EVOLVED INTO AN ANDALITE. BLESS YOU I HAVE HAD THIS QUESTION FOR OVER FIFTEEN YEARS.

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EWilloughby [2014-06-04 20:37:24 +0000 UTC]

This is really awesome.Ā 

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Hawkheart29 [2014-04-09 01:15:31 +0000 UTC]

Cooool.

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SoldierToger [2014-02-05 05:28:19 +0000 UTC]

Oh my goodness these are awesome XD

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Kiriska [2014-01-15 06:57:37 +0000 UTC]

THESE ARE SO COOL. Definitely interesting to play around with the fact that Andalites make no damn sense. XD

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lackofa In reply to Kiriska [2014-01-17 05:36:39 +0000 UTC]

The Andalites' total lack of sense make me so mad hahaha but it keeps me drawing them. SOMEDAY I MIGHT BE ABLE TO BS SOME SENSE INTO THEM. MAYBE. I'll keep honing my bullshit skills til then XD

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mintSMASH [2014-01-04 09:10:50 +0000 UTC]

I just LOVE your animorphs fanart so much... I love the colors on these creatures, the fur patterns you do... everything!Ā  gosh, I would pay for a whole book of your animorphs illustrations.Ā  These are so fun and cute.

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lackofa In reply to mintSMASH [2014-01-17 05:34:01 +0000 UTC]

Aw, thanks! That's really flattering ahaha. I really enjoy drawing them, probably too much XDĀ 

I haven't been uploading all of them to deviantart due to the really fast sketchy nature of some of the drawings, though. If you wanna keep up on my animorphs sketching I post the majority of it on my tumblr (same name as this account). I'll update my devart to match as soon as possible though. Iiii'm just behind on keeping up on my art accounts haha.

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mintSMASH In reply to lackofa [2014-02-01 22:02:07 +0000 UTC]

I absolutely want to keep up with all your animorphs sketching.Ā  I followed you instantly (I'm pretty-rage-machine).Ā  Gosh, this series was such a huge part of my childhood, and now finding your fanart as an adult it's like the fandom has kind of grown up and people are doing things like racebending, which I love now... +_+

I love your designs for the aliens and everything... the Leerans look fantastic, the Hork-bajir you draw are so great, especially when you put them in the trees and play with the light and how they look there... WOW.Ā  It's just like candy for me.Ā  I've been keeping an eye on your fanart I think since you posted some of it on the Animorphs livejournal comm, and I'm so happy you're still keeping up with it!

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lackofa In reply to mintSMASH [2014-02-02 07:13:07 +0000 UTC]

Oh man, all your comments mean so much to me haha, wow, that's so nice to hear, it's amazing to know that someone's so into the stuff I do. Thanks for following me! And yeah I love the racebending too, whenever I get around to drawing the actual Animorphs again I'm gonna try and flesh out my Tobias, Jake and Rachel XD I don't see myself stopping with the creature designs anytime soon though so yeah um I hope you continue to enjoy the random spams of Animorph fanart XD Cheers

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CharReed [2014-01-02 18:52:00 +0000 UTC]

Haha, so cute! Now I have to try my take on ancient Andalites!

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lackofa In reply to CharReed [2014-01-17 05:23:33 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, haha. Looking forward to see what you come up with! XD

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theSmartestArtist [2013-12-31 02:40:35 +0000 UTC]

These are really awesome! Are they pre-Elimist Chronicles???

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lackofa In reply to theSmartestArtist [2014-01-17 05:24:54 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! And um I suppose they would be? I think they were mostly developed as centaur-like beings by the tim the Ellimist came along... Really this bunch of doodles was mostly just me taking the basic concepts of Andalites and trying to figure out how they evolved the way they did.Ā 

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theSmartestArtist In reply to lackofa [2014-01-19 23:02:01 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, i think you're right. In retrospect, the Ellimist did come upon them when they had basic language and societal structures already established and not so primitive. These are still really amazing, though.

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harukoyamada [2013-12-29 01:25:06 +0000 UTC]

I love all of them! Such great concepts~

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lackofa In reply to harukoyamada [2013-12-30 07:40:01 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Concepts are like my favourite thing to do haha

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xPanu [2013-12-28 21:42:03 +0000 UTC]

Oh gosh. I just randomly found this page, and all those memories from waaaaay back just hit me. Last time i read Animorphs I couldn't have been more than 12 years old. And now I'm 18. Amazing art, I must say. c:


All them feels. <3

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lackofa In reply to xPanu [2013-12-30 07:38:01 +0000 UTC]

Aw, thanks XD Glad it hit a chord with you. If you're interested in more Animorphs stuff there's a group right here under the name 'animorphs', then there's 'animorphsect' on tumblr, if you use that site. It's a small fandom but there's some pretty cool stuff floating around

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xPanu In reply to lackofa [2013-12-30 13:19:56 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. I was a huge fan as a little girl. I may check it out later. ^^

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Cerasum92 [2013-12-28 19:15:26 +0000 UTC]

I like the one that's sitting down the most C:
So adorable...

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lackofa In reply to Cerasum92 [2013-12-30 07:30:12 +0000 UTC]

haha thanks!Ā 

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Tomoshibi [2013-12-28 07:57:47 +0000 UTC]

Best be careful. Looks like your hand slipped again XD


These are cool though... god those hoofmouth concepts are gross euuugh XD Love the guy to the right of those. So cute =3

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lackofa In reply to Tomoshibi [2013-12-30 07:29:52 +0000 UTC]

hoof mouthssss like fly mouthpartss spit dissolve and suck XD eww

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