im holding back all my might to say "first"...

still nice drawing :)

Woah you're great at world building. It almost sounded like a real reptile!
But with my world building it's just humans died from an apocalypse and there's only animals left XD

Woah!
This is so well done!!

You mentioned that it sometimes needs to cool off. How hot does it have to be to reach that point? Would it need to do so after heating up its scales?

This has an amazing amount of detail. I enjoy how much thought you put into it.
Also good color palette. :thumbsup:

@_Walmart_Bag_1
Thank you for the compliment. : ) I've played a lot of Monster Hunter, and the development team for that game series goes deep into real world biology when creating their creatures and environments, so I've been wanting to practice that kind of world building as well. It's part of a life long childhood dream of mine to be part of the art team on a video game.

@PremonitionofWinter
Iguess it may vary from individuals of the species, but I suppose the simplest answer is "once the creature becomes too uncomfortable, either from too much ecposure the elements such as tar pits, mud volcanoes, direct sunlight or their fight/flight response sets them on fire for too long. Looking at them from a game developer perspective, this was intended as a boss/mini boss mechanic as well.

For example, you encounter one in battle. Shortly after the encounter starts, it -enrages-, and becomes vulnerable to player attacks while it's plates are heated and soft. After some time passes it retreats, and the player needs to hunt or pursue the creature to a nearby body of water where it's plates crystalize and become resistant to slashing or piercing type attacks, but vunerable to bludgeoning or percussive type attacks where the player is able to break its plates off.

I could take it further with elemental ttack types where attacking with fire type weapons/spells will heat up and soften the plates, or attacking with water type weapons/spells crystalizes it. I think that would open up a variety of single player and multiplayer strategies.

It's been a childhood dream of mine to be part of a videogame development team, and with how accessabe indi-games are bec9ming to develope, I figured it might be fun to practice some some world building.

@The_Adjudicator I just saw your first drawing and saw that it was from 2013 now its 2024! i was born in 2014 so that is a lil more than 10 years!! Thats really cool!!!

This is awesom!!

@The_Adjudicator thank you so much for following me!!!!

@bbogumi
That could make for an interesting idea. The growth cycle of this creature has the makings of a pokemon evolution cycle.

@The_Adjudicator THIS. IS. LE. AWESOME!!!!! i love dragons and lizard-type creatures! :D

if it's a basilisk, can it run on water? the anatomy made me think otherwise, idk.

@_-foxylily-_
I don't think they'll be able to run on water, especially at full maturity.

That is an interesting idea though. Maybe as hatchlings they can sprint fast enough on their webbed feet to briefly run on top of water. At full maturity though, they become too slow and cumbersome to pull that off.

@The_Adjudicator ah, ok. i thought so. you know, they kinda remind me of monitor lizards in a few ways. oh, and i love the plating!