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Kika Lexová ✨is available for work ✨

7 months

With my portfolio freshly updated, it's offical: I'M LOOKING FOR WORK!✨ I'm Kika, a concept artist specializing in creature design. Prev: Volta (Guild Wars 2), Rare (Everwild), Procreate, 3DTotal ✉️k.lexova @hotmail .com

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Kika Lexová ✨is available for work ✨

@yumkrill

1 year

Thoroughly enjoying Dredge so far

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@yumkrill

6 months

not to give this guy any more attention but this attitude is so widespread and honestly the bane of my existence as a creature designer the amount of times I've had to throw out interesting, awesome designs because anything not mammal = "unrelatable"

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@HariSel57511397

6 months

THIS is not a face I can relate to, sympathize for, or even have a dialogue with. This screams at me to kill it with fire. Even IF I didn't want to kill this thing, I want to be in orbit, far away from this creature. It's horrific, and only a contrarian can argue against that.

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@yumkrill

6 months

do you ever think about how our industry's dismissal of creature design as a legitimate discipline directly mirrors our general attitude towards animals/nature I think about it a lot

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@arvalis

6 months

When a concept artist is asked to design a monster but they don't know much animal anatomy:

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@yumkrill

9 months

Carnivore/herbivore anatomy for Jon Kuo's creature course 🥩🌱 Orca was definitely a challenge, there aren't many cetacean anatomy resources out there!

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@yumkrill

2 years

Why didn't anyone tell me that crocodilians have weird clawless sausage digits was I just supposed to find this horrifying information on my own

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@yumkrill

6 years

Gharials (or gavials) are ancient, fish-eating crocodilians native to India. They are sadly critically endangered, with only about 200 gharials remaining in the wild. The Prague Zoo runs one of the breeding programs fighting for the survival of these beautifully unique animals.

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@yumkrill

8 months

Do you ever look at an animal and just lose touch w/ reality a bit

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@yumkrill

9 months

SUPER excited to post this little guy! A few years back, I was asked to design a sidekick creature for the main characters of an animation pitch. We ended up deciding on this adorable little bioluminescent salamander with a hidden third eye 👁️

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@yumkrill

2 years

Lisowicia does a Sit.

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@yumkrill

8 months

Current ungulate obsession: the Jafarabadi, a cross between a Cape and water buffalo. They look like weird hairless droopy muskoxen and I adore them.

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@yumkrill

9 months

Color options for Kritter, the six-legged alien salamander! 🎨🖌️ More below ⬇️

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@yumkrill

6 months

And not to go too deep on this, but this attitude is just...repugnant and dangerous. It has measurable and severe impacts on biodiversity and which species get protection. Imagine discounting like 90% of all life on earth because "not relatable"

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@yumkrill

6 months

And don't even get me started on "cute"! Unless it's mammalian and has a human baby face, apparently it can't be cute. Just boring as hell.

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@yumkrill

7 months

Amidst the never-ending horrors of this industry, there is joy to be found in the act of making A Funny Little Guy

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@yumkrill

6 months

In practice, this can mean making conscious decisions to include non-mammalian creatures in your design options. Clients may not pick them, but if you really believe and show that all animal groups are equal in your work, it can have an impact on how those around you think.

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@yumkrill

9 months

Some herbivore anatomy homework for Jon Kuo's creature course 🌿🐗 It's been neat getting to refresh my knowledge and doodle some critters for a change!

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@yumkrill

6 months

I firmly believe that creature artists have a duty to push less charismatic animals into the spotlight and perhaps slowly change public perception of what's cute/likeable & worth protecting. It's not just instinct, a huge chunk of it is cultural and it *can* be influenced!

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@yumkrill

2 years

Seeing as it’s been like 2 years and I still haven’t finished these, time to post them anyways. Imaginary dinos!🦖🦖🦖

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@yumkrill

2 years

What's this? Personal work??⁣ ⁣ A little medieval-ish dragon sketch for fun 🔥

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@yumkrill

6 months

finally did a stained glass course after postponing it for years! you'll never guess what I made 😌

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@yumkrill

6 months

Good news everyone! Babies!!

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@yumkrill

2 years

Big props to @ArtofFabricious for informing me that not only is this normal but *all* archosaurs have this I need to lie down 😭

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@yumkrill

2 years

Spiny desert dragon 🌵☀️⁣ ⁣ Slowly inching my way towards a painting style that works with my line art...only took me 5 years!

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@yumkrill

3 years

Howdy #VisibleWomen ! I'm Kika, a concept artist & creature designer with a vast love of the natural world. I'm also an avid wildlife recorder, forager, and moth trapper 🌿🍄🦋 ✨Currently available for work!✨

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@yumkrill

3 years

Throwback to this Tasmanian fauna piece I did for @Procreate a few years back - featuring the one and only #thylacine !

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@yumkrill

3 years

This is a joke right? Carbon offsets do not work, unless by "working" you mean making people feel better for wrecking the environment.

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@yumkrill

8 months

Just a lil' guy

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5 months

Dragon's Dogma brainrot

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@yumkrill

9 months

Skeletons:

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@yumkrill

2 years

This is exactly what caused my burnout of 2+ years. Don't hire artists for their expertise if you're just going to discount that expertise at every turn.

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@fightpunch

2 years

This quote from Phil Tippet is 100% true. As soon as I feel like I’m just a hired wrist I will mentally detach from the project and the mediocrity will gush. The kicker is that despite being hired for our ability / taste / knowledge, our opinion is often the least valid.

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@yumkrill

9 months

Some early ideas for Kritter! We were aiming for cute and spunky creatures that looked like they could be from another planet 👽 Which one is your favorite?

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@yumkrill

2 years

Hey there #CreatingWithASD ! I’m Kika, a neurodivergent creature/concept artist in the games industry. My special interest in biology helps me design some pretty rad critters 🔥

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@yumkrill

2 years

Important news for 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦! From Monday Slovakia will offer the following aid to Ukrainian refugees. Please share/RT!!

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@yumkrill

8 months

the babies are even worse if you can believe it

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@yumkrill

8 months

Colorful piñata-themed weapons for Guild Wars 2's 2023 Dragon Bash event! (Thank you to ArenaNet & Volta for the opportunity. Copyright © 2023 ArenaNet, LLC. All right reserved. Shared with authorization)

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@yumkrill

6 months

warmup antelope critter

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@yumkrill

5 months

Wombat anatomy study for a personal project. 🐨 Not a lot of resources out there so I had to do a bunch of guesswork - if anyone here is a wombat/marsupial expert, I'd love some feedback!

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@yumkrill

6 years

Gharials spend a lot of time underwater, emerging only to bask on riverbanks. Their weaker leg muscles make it difficult for them to walk upright on land like other crocodilians.

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@yumkrill

3 years

Artstation, like many other companies, is banking on folks seeing the words "carbon offsetting" and some little tree icons and not investigating past that.

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@yumkrill

2 years

This horrible revelation brought to you by a cute baby caiman whose feet i touched today

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@yumkrill

6 months

Oh and I can't make a post like this without mentioning @alexriesart , whose work is a shining example of keeping inverts represented in our industry:

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7 months

The Titan Holefish and concepts for its protective symbiotes.

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@yumkrill

1 year

Excited to share these - I recently had the pleasure of giving a creature design talk to @ashleykenawell 's class at MCG Youth in Pittsburgh (thank you Ashley)! Thread on individual creatures and process below🧵:

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5 years

Practising @Procreate ’s new animation features with this sleepy dragon 🐉 #Procreate #animation

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@yumkrill

2 years

Birbo Borbo

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@yumkrill

9 months

And since proper credit has been the talk of Twitter lately, arguably the best comprehensive ref book you can own for (vertebrate) creature design is Eliot Goldfinger's "Animal Anatomy for Artists":

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@yumkrill

4 months

Did a pack goat course in Switzerland last week 🐐🇨🇭❄️ What a dream!

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@yumkrill

3 years

@meganroseruiz I wish someone had warned me. Two years and I'm still waiting for the spark to come back. I remember the elation getting my first gig. After all the hard work and mental anguish I thought I'd finally made it. Instead I'm having to start from zero.

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@yumkrill

6 months

Oh dang this took off! I'm still looking for work - please hire me to make some cool critters (and other stuff) for your project! ✨

Kika Lexová ✨is available for work ✨

@yumkrill

7 months

With my portfolio freshly updated, it's offical: I'M LOOKING FOR WORK!✨ I'm Kika, a concept artist specializing in creature design. Prev: Volta (Guild Wars 2), Rare (Everwild), Procreate, 3DTotal ✉️k.lexova @hotmail .com

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@yumkrill

6 months

@flamansz_draws relevant tweet from the other day:

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@ElytraMithra

6 months

oh my goddddd researchers built a smartwatch heart beat monitor that uses a slime mold for its operation. the slime mold has to be fed and cared for, so the users in the trial... developed an emotional attachment to it 😭😭

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@yumkrill

9 months

This project was an absolute joy to work on, and I still love all the art that came out of it. I'll be sharing more soon!

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@yumkrill

1 year

Caught this gorgeous species last night: Leopard moth, Zeuzera pyrina 💙

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@yumkrill

3 years

I've been trying to attract this moth *all summer* and it finally happened!! Blue Underwing, Catocala fraxini 🦋 Just stunning.

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@yumkrill

1 year

Ohhh I am SO excited to finally share this boy with you all! Plush Siege Turtle mount skin I did for Guild Wars 2 🐢✨ (Thank you to ArenaNet & Volta for the opportunity. Copyright © 2023 ArenaNet, LLC. All right reserved. Shared with authorization)

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@yumkrill

5 years

It's been a dream come true concepting for #Everwild alongside such a brilliant and passionate team 💚 Absolutely surreal to be able to share this!

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@yumkrill

2 years

Ever seen a moth ear before? That hole in the side of the abdomen is the tympanal organ, which moths use to hear bat echolocation and avoid getting eaten! 🦇

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@yumkrill

3 years

@VilleSinkkonen @gunsnrosesgirl3 I've caught these before, they're some of my favs! Here's one from this year :3

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@yumkrill

6 months

@poliwag06 no, because the creature designs are treated with the same lvl of care as the charas.

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@yumkrill

3 years

@Microrapterr Reign of fire. The wing-to-body-ratio is just *chefs kiss*

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1 year

@alexriesart @BlackSaltGames 2 seconds after entering Gale Cliffs and wondering why the controller is vibrating; colourised

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@yumkrill

2 years

As for the *why*, it would seem the ancestors of Archosaurs lost the claws at some point in time. Then when digits were became more useful again millions of years later, enough time had passed evolutionarily that the claws couldn't just "come back". (Thanks @ArtofFabricious !)

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@yumkrill

6 months

@Kairo_Anatomika Yeah, I got plenty of that kind of snark at school as well. Some encouragement would have been nice instead 🙃

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@yumkrill

6 years

Up into the canopy we go this #weirdwednesday to meet nature’s powder puffs! The puffbirds are a family of tropical,arboreal birds found throughout South America and Mexico. A large head, comparatively small body, and tendency to puff up have resulted in their amazing name. (1/3)

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@yumkrill

3 years

With 2021 almost over, I wanted to have a look back at some of my favorite moth finds this year!🧵

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@yumkrill

2 years

Tis the season #AuDHD ❄️🧶

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7 months

When you accidentally make a design accurate enough to translate 1:1 into a real plushie 🐢✨

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@GuildWars2

7 months

Plushie vs Plushie! Outgun your other collectibles with the #GuildWars2 Siege Turtle Plush now available from @FinalBossBundle

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@yumkrill

6 years

The gharial's sharp teeth and elongated snouts are the perfect adaptation for hunting fish underwater!

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@yumkrill

7 months

@SouthApe Similar issue with farmers and wolves here in the EU. Instead of putting a modicum of actual effort into protecting their livestock, they take the easy way out by demonising wolves. It's beyond pathetic.

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@yumkrill

7 years

Hey everyone, thanks for stopping by! I'm Kika, a creature artist with a gigantic love for all animals. My dream is to one day live on a farm with a bunch of pet goats 🐐 #artistsontwitter

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@yumkrill

2 years

My awesome sis raised so much money the first time around that she's doing *another* bake sale for Ukraine this weekend! Super happy with how this poster came out 💙💛 Слава Україні!

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@yumkrill

3 years

the artist | the art

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3 years

@RenzaS @commaficionado @aclientfirst keeping their heads down and being good little capitalist workers, I suppose 🙄

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@yumkrill

6 months

these things are a sign of a declining society you have mental illness if you desire to provide for and nurture a creature that brings no value in return to your household hundreds of years ago people would have never simply because they had self respect

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@yumkrill

5 years

Ladies and gentlemen, for your consideration: ✨GLITTER WEEVILS✨

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6 months

@DKrunks see now this is a perfect design

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6 years

Due to time constraints, I’m posting this weekend’s #sketches today instead of the usual #weirdwednesday - we hope to return to your regularly scheduled programming shortly 🐇 ⠀

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@yumkrill

9 months

And a couple more:

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3 years

@alexriesart I'm like 90% sure that the two paw-print avatar profiles are just the same dude agreeing with himself too??

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@yumkrill

6 years

Late to the party, but here’s my first #artvsartist ! I love designing critters more than anything, and spend all the rest of my time learning about real-life animals. Ungulates rule!