Not really. Lots of fragile bones, poor hearing and weak beaks, when I'm looking for thin bones, deafness and small beaks. x)

... dang, this sounds pretty cruel haha. But hey, it's a challenge of sorts.

At least deaf pets are immune to shriek and roar. I prefer Ice Heart, though. My etelia are immune to shriek, roar, petrify, freezing, fear and blinding attacks. They just aren't as strong as a gp3 elemental beast. No gp, no matter how good your genes, is 30 stat points weaker than 3 gp across the board. So yeah, for some reason tame etelia are no where near as powerful as the wild ones. Fooo.

Why, do wild monsters have GP? Apart from the temple ones obviously.

Yay: another baby gryph with 14/16 crappiness! :D But only 7 are Really Bad.

Why did every baby save one today have degen???? WHYYYYYYYYY

I don't know how they work it, but wild etelia are insanely powerful. Even kami battle against them, and I'm talking proper kami, not the uselessium that are hoppers.

I gave up using my drakes and bred an ice breath lykos. Just using bite on manual, I still lost most of my battles. But you fight until you're almost out of energy, then leave your pet on that island for ten hours, then fight some more, and so on. You eventually win.

Firebreath dragons with robust scales are a good combo. A cockatrice with acid spit, venomous skin and regen. Lykos with ice breath and elemental resistance. Gives you more of a chance of acquiring that sweet, sweet crystalline ice. :)

Marans, you cruel woman :((((

My best pets for beating wild etelias are dragons: like this one:

https://beastkeeper.com/pet/834118

Okay, here are my drawings. I didn't trace, I hand drew all of them:

http://i.imgur.com/lBmKc63.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Gl32mFG.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/X4FzSvu.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/pC1jcfE.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/RtBMC9q.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/dpDM2E7.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/OCRbLXH.jpg

Last one;

http://i.imgur.com/0WC8cIB.jpg

Well? What do you guys think? And don't harness the criticism. I need your real opinions.

You have some very creative ideas! I like that. :)

A phoenix dancing with blue ribbons and lotus flowers under sunbeams... appaloosa unicorn on night hill with reflection... bat creature with mysterious markings... and the owl's feather style is nice, it reminds me of a mosaic or such. The anatomy may not be perfect but I honestly enjoy these kinds of drawings more than "polished" artwork, because of the original designs and ideas in the scenes.

And by the details of feathers, hair and the horse's eye/nostril/muscle shapes, it's obvious that you're aware of anatomy and are putting effort into these drawings. That's always good to see!

Now, it really depends on what you want to do next - do you like the idea of fancy realistic art? Cartoon style? Either way I'd recommend you carry on learning creature anatomy. Try doing loads of quick sketches of horses, using photos as references. Or bats, or birds. As you keep doing this, you'll get used to all the joints and muscles that creatures have, and be able to automatically tell if something (proportions, angle of joints) looks realistic or not.

I don't recommend just grabbing pretty, detailed photos and copying them. It might teach you how to draw textures and muscle shading, but it probably won't teach you the underlying structure of an animal. There are a lot of equine artists out there who can paint amazing photo-based portraits... but ask them to draw a horse from scratch, in an unusual pose or colour or perspective, and they struggle. Because they haven't really learned about the muscles in a horse's body, or drawn things from odd angles before. By copying photos, you only get better at... copying photos.

So stick to small sketches, a lot of them in a lot of perspectives, and pay attention to the shapes and bones that pop up in every one. Even if you don't plan to draw in realistic style later, it's essential to understand animal anatomy. "My Little Pony" and other cartoon horses for example - all those animators need to know how real horses work, in order to twist and stylise them. Such as the cartoon horses "running" despite having weird legs and no ankles; the animators still know exactly how the hooves should move and land on the ground in different gaits, so they can bend the legs in the right places and not show any problems from lack of ankles, like a real horse would suffer from (stiffness etc). Uh, I hope that makes sense...

I think they're all positively adorable Yecak

I'm the type to draw/copy better, referencing HEAVILY from sources. need to break that habit ;P

Also, just a warning Yecak, we can see your real name in some of your pictures. None of us are mean internet bullies, but be warned that some people might be

A word of warning: on my old forum, where we all got along pretty well, although there were a few clashes here and there, a guy came on that we all thought was pretty cool.

He made friends with everyone, he told amazing stories, he posted pictures of where he lived in the UK, blah blah blah.

But then he started trying to manipulate people, he threatened a few people, first in private then in the main forum, he generally tried to turn us against each other.

In short he was nuts.

Now, I'm not saying we'll get a narcissist with sociopathic tendencies popping up here to annoy the whole group but it's safer to only tell your name or other identifying details to people in private, whom you trust. You don't really know anyone you meet online until you've spent a lot of time critiquing their halloween pumpkin carving abilities or whatever, so be careful.

Especially you younger peeps who lurk around here. You don't know when someone who might seem to be an amazingly friendly girl with a love of Warrior Cats and pink unicorns is actually a creepy fat guy named Steve who wants pics of your underwear. BE CAREFUL. If someone is iffy tell Angel immediately.

Now that I have scared everyone, I must try to level up my rocs, FOR THEY WILL NOT LEVEL UP THEMSELVES. Ho hum.

Ok, that's alot to take in...

I forgot I put my name on those...  Think I should take em down then? When I drew them I didn't want people at school who I showed them to to take credit for MY artwork. Which ones have names on them, I'll take those ones down.

Does anyone want to make a skin out of them? That's what I was really aiming for.

My dreams come true! Finally! I got my Carpo.

Very special one.

If you want to breed to him, feel free to make a breeding offers.

It's him:

https://beastkeeper.com/pet/924762

great genes :D

I think someone took all his breeding, rip. They loved him too much. I'd love the ribbon phoneix skin pls

I think Fundi is messing with me again...

I'm going to go practice riding a unicorn without falling off. Why are they so BIG?? Neigh!

Also, I really really hate thin skin and accidental degeneration. Sob.

They're not big, you're just short Arete ;p

Yeah, breeding is sometimes a lottery. even without degeneration you can get bad genes - recessive ones (with 25% chance).

Hey, they should put random mutations into our beast genetics. It would drive us all nuts but might be very interesting. :))

I am not short! I just hate heights.

Well I hate falling from them.

Well hitting the ground is the worst part really.

Ouch.