LOL!

Girantis,brilliant.Not only is the concept incredably funny,it's drawn incredably well.

Once again, thanks for the feedback guys. To answer the questions:

@mikey: The wings are a mixture of Mantis wings and Angler fish fins. A mantis can actually fly. In fact it's very good at it, though usually the wings are tucked away on it's abdomen and are mainly used for escape. Given that the Girantis is partially composed of a mammal, it would most likely be too heavy to fly. The angler fish I chose can make a faint light in some of it's fins (hence the bright colour), so the wings are mostly there as decoration. They can be used as a speed boost in full galop as well as rudders when changing direction (much like the tail of a cheetah).

@jalonso: The background in the icon was really just to make the icon more interesting. The picture was made so I could post it on various background colours, which is why there's some sellout on it. The sky in the icon was to compliment the description really. If I am to put in a background, I'd have to do quite a few changes to the original.

@spunos: It's about the size of a small elephant. It's main body is roughly close to a rhino.

@milkjon: The font was just doodled with the middle circle paintbrush in msPaint. Thought it looked spiffy.

@Flyguy: I can't say the colour choice in this piece is one of my best, but I made it so it would stand out against most types of background so using less sadurated colours wouldn't work as well for my purposes. In general though, I try to apply pretty standard colour theory. You choose your palette based on what  impression or message you want people to get. In this case, I used bright sadurated colours to take away the the feeling that this was some sort of freak. Then I can use hot-cold contrasts. The more sadurated a colour is, the hotter it is (in most cases). There's also red/yellow-blue contrasts to add to that. Lastly it's considering shadows and where the light is hitting it to define what hue it should have (sadurated, unsadurated, hot, cold, neutral). There's hardly any hot-cold effects applied here as there is no background, so the warm and cold colours could be better used to unify the whole thing in terms of colour and composition.

@CuteBunny: I wouldn't be so sure about that...

I'm really digging the color choices man..coming from someone who can never seem to pick the right colors, how do you do manage to pick the right ones? Obviously from an artistic standpoint there are colors that blend well with each other but i've never taken an art class so I dont know all the rules..

So please how do you pick such amazing color combinations?

Again, awsome work 6/6

The thing I like about this creature is that it looks like it could actually have existed. Theres something aboutthe wings tho that are a tad cartoony feeling compaired to the rest. And at first glance at the prewiew I could have swore that id seen that font (reminds me of smarties). I usually go for things that are well animated or cartoony and stylised, but credit has to be given on exeptional work like this. well done.

insane.

im

nothing to say but 2 words..

Absofuckinglutey awsome

5/5 and fav'ed

Hey snake, you made a very freaky animal and I've no transparancy issues on IE7.

why cant I be as good as you.