I suppose scrapped organisms technically go here. I sketch things that never get finished all the time, far too many to post, but I have a few with completed / mostly completed art too.
These ones are early versions of concepts that became submissions with different artwork later:
Fourmaw saucebacks were originally conceptualized as neotenous derivatives of the megatusk lineage. The main difference being only one terminating fang per jaw, matching juveniles of the lineage. Scrapped because I decided it wasn't very plausible, then reimagined the concept as a shrewback instead.
Originally, argusraptors were gonna just be the Terrible Argusraptor on its own rather than a species complex. I was never really satisfied with this art and I was later inspired by wolves and coyotes to broaden the scope of the submission.
Big-headed camoback wasn't exactly submitted later, but it's the same concept as the lunging camoback--slower ambush hunter more suited to its environment. Originally lost interest because it was too terran and I'd messed up the mouth anatomy and didn't want to fix it, interest regained when I realized I could give it stupidly long grasshopper hindquarters.
This one was cannibalized for a later species concept:
This is the athol. Its name was re-used as part of atholat later, but apart from the namesake lack of a dome the two species couldn't be any more different. This was meant to be a star-tongued gulper-esque insectivore native to Darwin, but I lost interest somewhere along the way. It could probably still work, but I don't feel like making it.
These ones don't really have anything like them existing at present:
The baresnout shrew was a descendant of the opportunity shrew, and one of my earliest species concepts as one can tell by the older art style. It was meant to be an aggressive scavenger of some sort, but it was designed with looks in mind over functionality. It could probably be reworked as a descendant of the stink shrew, but if I did that I'd probably completely redesign it and make new art.
Woah, a scrapped shrog! The fermi dwarfshrog was meant to be native to Fermi when it was still just a tiny unforgiving desert island. It's small and neotenous, and I had this idea that it could use a tiny descendant of bangsticks called "pistolsticks" as a sort of one-time use pistol. It actually has a fairly complete description, but I ended up losing interest in the pistolsticks (which was never drawn). Then I put off finishing or reworking it for so long that now Fermi's completely changed and it doesn't make sense anymore, lol.
(I had had an additional idea for a descendant of it that pretended to be a baby dockshrog for free food!)
Mittenlip was a stowaway harmbless descendant that became a full-time specialist of seafaring shrew food stores. Not really much to say about it, might still work but I don't feel like writing a new description.
Softback was a descendant of the glacial sauceback that was meant to be an aesthetical hollow echo of waxfaces. The teeth don't make any sense. It no longer serves any purpose.
Cephaler was meant to be a short-necked shrew that got even anatomically stupider. It has no neck, and the head and the shoulder girdle are one. Current stance: No.
Unnamed kehaida descendant. Decided it was too ugly.
Pop shrew, a weird bubbleskin that converged on more primitive shrews. Evolved too fast and rendered obsolete by the surprise return of soriparasites (which can do this more easily and more interestingly).
These ones are early versions of concepts that became submissions with different artwork later:
Fourmaw saucebacks were originally conceptualized as neotenous derivatives of the megatusk lineage. The main difference being only one terminating fang per jaw, matching juveniles of the lineage. Scrapped because I decided it wasn't very plausible, then reimagined the concept as a shrewback instead.
Originally, argusraptors were gonna just be the Terrible Argusraptor on its own rather than a species complex. I was never really satisfied with this art and I was later inspired by wolves and coyotes to broaden the scope of the submission.
Big-headed camoback wasn't exactly submitted later, but it's the same concept as the lunging camoback--slower ambush hunter more suited to its environment. Originally lost interest because it was too terran and I'd messed up the mouth anatomy and didn't want to fix it, interest regained when I realized I could give it stupidly long grasshopper hindquarters.
This one was cannibalized for a later species concept:
This is the athol. Its name was re-used as part of atholat later, but apart from the namesake lack of a dome the two species couldn't be any more different. This was meant to be a star-tongued gulper-esque insectivore native to Darwin, but I lost interest somewhere along the way. It could probably still work, but I don't feel like making it.
These ones don't really have anything like them existing at present:
The baresnout shrew was a descendant of the opportunity shrew, and one of my earliest species concepts as one can tell by the older art style. It was meant to be an aggressive scavenger of some sort, but it was designed with looks in mind over functionality. It could probably be reworked as a descendant of the stink shrew, but if I did that I'd probably completely redesign it and make new art.
Woah, a scrapped shrog! The fermi dwarfshrog was meant to be native to Fermi when it was still just a tiny unforgiving desert island. It's small and neotenous, and I had this idea that it could use a tiny descendant of bangsticks called "pistolsticks" as a sort of one-time use pistol. It actually has a fairly complete description, but I ended up losing interest in the pistolsticks (which was never drawn). Then I put off finishing or reworking it for so long that now Fermi's completely changed and it doesn't make sense anymore, lol.
(I had had an additional idea for a descendant of it that pretended to be a baby dockshrog for free food!)
Mittenlip was a stowaway harmbless descendant that became a full-time specialist of seafaring shrew food stores. Not really much to say about it, might still work but I don't feel like writing a new description.
Softback was a descendant of the glacial sauceback that was meant to be an aesthetical hollow echo of waxfaces. The teeth don't make any sense. It no longer serves any purpose.
Cephaler was meant to be a short-necked shrew that got even anatomically stupider. It has no neck, and the head and the shoulder girdle are one. Current stance: No.
Unnamed kehaida descendant. Decided it was too ugly.
Pop shrew, a weird bubbleskin that converged on more primitive shrews. Evolved too fast and rendered obsolete by the surprise return of soriparasites (which can do this more easily and more interestingly).
some other, less finished scraps from my scrapped species folder, why not?
Two different passes on the "arboreal quail". Decided it wasn't very plausible at this stage (and quadrupedal saucebacks, if I ever make them, will probably never look like this). Concept later became the ferry quail.
"Chicken-looking kakonat" intended for the driftwood islands. Decided it was too ugly.
Early version of the dockshrog.
Tejdaw evo called a fraydaw. When Hydro submitted the mothhead I decided it would be in bad taste to try submitting it, because it would result in the mothhead's immediate extinction due to its vastly superior senses.
A descendant of the gryphler. Some of its characteristics were later integrated into the mouse gryphler.
Early version of the twigfisher shrog.
Early version of little manjack. I was originally very focused on just the "biped" thing with barely any idea for its ecology, which is why the species was in development hell for so long.
Some kind of weird derived swarmer built more for looks and combinimal stuff than being an actual creature. I think it was supposed to resemble a roufo from Beta.
Early version of sausophrey.
Sexually dimorphic wolvershrog evo intended for Ramul. The list of reasons I scrapped this has no right to be as large as it is. I may reuse some of the concept for the Soma archipelago replacement for wolvershrog, though.
Another scrapped shrog intended for Ramul, this one a hybrid of multiple species. Mnidjm said no.
Scrapped hybrid of seashrog and burrowing tamjack. The sudden resurrection of several tamjack species against my strong objections basically killed it, along with several other concepts I had.
Arctic fox-like maineiac rivershrog evo. The concept will be redone as a kitshrox eventually.
What in goddamn??
Thornkruggs were just a ripoff of metters from OurFoodChain. I have no idea why I ever thought that was a good idea.
Another ferry quail prototype.
Gryphler-derived waterfowl. May revisit with better, more canon-compliant anatomy.
I do not remember drawing this ketter. I think the smelling eyes get more efficient.
A sormlicker descendant with a full 360 degree whisker sense.
Some kind of weird derived grubby loafshell?
According to the work file name, this is an argusraptor that goes fishing, probably inspired by piscivorous wolves. May rework into a real submission.
Centaur-looking thing. Drawn before the spondylozoan hip thing came to light. Could probably be reworked into a real submission.
Two different passes on the "arboreal quail". Decided it wasn't very plausible at this stage (and quadrupedal saucebacks, if I ever make them, will probably never look like this). Concept later became the ferry quail.
"Chicken-looking kakonat" intended for the driftwood islands. Decided it was too ugly.
Early version of the dockshrog.
Tejdaw evo called a fraydaw. When Hydro submitted the mothhead I decided it would be in bad taste to try submitting it, because it would result in the mothhead's immediate extinction due to its vastly superior senses.
A descendant of the gryphler. Some of its characteristics were later integrated into the mouse gryphler.
Early version of the twigfisher shrog.
Early version of little manjack. I was originally very focused on just the "biped" thing with barely any idea for its ecology, which is why the species was in development hell for so long.
Some kind of weird derived swarmer built more for looks and combinimal stuff than being an actual creature. I think it was supposed to resemble a roufo from Beta.
Early version of sausophrey.
Sexually dimorphic wolvershrog evo intended for Ramul. The list of reasons I scrapped this has no right to be as large as it is. I may reuse some of the concept for the Soma archipelago replacement for wolvershrog, though.
Another scrapped shrog intended for Ramul, this one a hybrid of multiple species. Mnidjm said no.
Scrapped hybrid of seashrog and burrowing tamjack. The sudden resurrection of several tamjack species against my strong objections basically killed it, along with several other concepts I had.
Arctic fox-like maineiac rivershrog evo. The concept will be redone as a kitshrox eventually.
What in goddamn??
Thornkruggs were just a ripoff of metters from OurFoodChain. I have no idea why I ever thought that was a good idea.
Another ferry quail prototype.
Gryphler-derived waterfowl. May revisit with better, more canon-compliant anatomy.
I do not remember drawing this ketter. I think the smelling eyes get more efficient.
A sormlicker descendant with a full 360 degree whisker sense.
Some kind of weird derived grubby loafshell?
According to the work file name, this is an argusraptor that goes fishing, probably inspired by piscivorous wolves. May rework into a real submission.
Centaur-looking thing. Drawn before the spondylozoan hip thing came to light. Could probably be reworked into a real submission.
I think I could salvage, or help you salvage, a lot of your scrapped ideas. After all, I am very good at making descriptions. To avoid stretching out the topic, I'll send you the particulars over a private message.
Voynichshrog (Sophonofictus cacataurus)
Creator: Jarlaxle
Ancestor: Twineshrog
Size: 2m long
Habitat: Darwin Cloud Rainforest
Diet: Carnivore
Support: Endoskeleton (bone)
Respiration: Active (lungs)
Thermoregulation: Endotherm (fur)
Reproduction: Sexual (Male and Female, Live Birth, Milk)
The Voynichshrog has split from its ancestor and became a specialized carnivore. Taking advantage of its ancestral sophont aesthetics, advanced tool crafting abilities and communication skills, the Voynichshrog routinely generate large theatric displays in which they will pretend to create and understand art, generate the illusion that they can recite poetry and sophisticated dialogue with deep philosophical quandaries, act as if they have a ritualistic and organized religion and pretend to have political debates, all with a completely fake vocalization sequences which have the vague appearance of language. No longer cutting trees to build nests, their tails have evolved into Chekov guns, selling the premise of the twist to come.
These displays generate the telltale signs of a budding civilization, fooling the most advance planetary scanners, they lure in unsuspecting observers from across the multiverse, pulling them into traps. With a wide range of biological make ups composing their diverse targets, they are able to gain all their nutritional needs while feeding exclusively on spacefaring explorers.
Building on their abilities to pretend to understand alien technology, they are able to reclaim their prey's space faring vessels and use them as part of their nests, pretending to know how to activate communication systems in order to advertise the false premise of their sophoncy to more unsuspecting observers.
They are otherwise the same as their ancestors, reproducing by pretending to be pfp's on dating apps
This is the most beautiful Sagan 4 species to exist yet, it truly brings a tear to my eye to think about it, this deserves to win prime specimen, hands down.
This is a brilliant addition
eh
it ain't no Peter Gryphlyer
it ain't no Peter Gryphlyer
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