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Quinn Red
@quinnred.bsky.social
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I am a Canadian graphic designer and artist who has a particular passion for creature design.
I'm a big fan of science fiction and fantasy content, as well as the natural world, which is all often evoked in my art.
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ALIEN : PREDATOR OF OBSESSION
Two screen-static mirrored images of xenomorphs facing each other. "You don't beat this thing, Ripley. You can't. All you can do is refuse to engage. You've got to wipe out every trace. Destroy any clue. Stop its infection from spreading. Make sure there's no chance of the human race ever making contact with it again. Because the moment it makes contact, it's won." - Henry marlow
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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White boy in a whiteout.
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Hemovalkah "The Drenched"

When Gotthokbiel (God of Wounds) cleaved her four demigod children with womb, she required them husbands.

With divine promise she seduced Muvalkah into her service. The betrothed whales would ever wallow in the birth blood of their wives, and ever father warrior children.
Massive rusty red serpent that curls in on itself. It's head is raised to the air, tusk nearly touching the ceiling. Two short, thick arms support the body. It's tail ends in a pair of flippers, seemingly having developed from legs like the back flippers of a sea lion.
November 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Some inexplicable shitpost edits for my DND group.
October 31, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Quick lil reimagining of that funny Eyeball monster in Alien Earth.
Tried to make it a lil more Giger.

Pictured it as a parasite of Xenomorph hives, "borrowing" hived host bodies for it's own purposes.

#alienearth
Center: A biomechanical creature consisting of many spider-like legs and a single steely sphere that resembles an eyeball. Right: Anatomical display showing creature's everted organs. The organs consist of a long waste disposal tube, a pair of feathery nerve tendrils, and a bunch of root-like veins for stealing nutrient's from a host body. Left: A human head with a creature implanted in it, it's shining body replacing the left eye.
October 29, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Finished my DND Halloween mask of my character Hippa TombTongue.

Honestly more puppet than mask.
October 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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A depiction of an old lady Half-Orc chieftain of my DND character's tribe.

Debating if I'll colour her in someday.
Line art depicting a massive orc figure with drooping lips and large tusk. The half-orc is an older woman, wearing fur on her shoulders and hips and bejeweled with rings and circular plates along fur, hair, and ritual gauntlet. She lounges on a simple and odd throne in a relaxed position, right hand extended in kindness, the left hand holding a totem-like scepter depicting a hippo standing on an ape-like giant, supported by dozens of orcs. Her eyes are closed from age but she smiles with wisdom and invitation.
October 17, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Early Concept - Histlek : God of Self Hatred

God of Knots, All-Giver, the Torment Organ.

They are the embodiment of self-loathing, self-destruction, and over-giving of oneself.

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Early rough concept for Histlek : God of Self Hatred. Likely will change up their look, but for now... Histlek : God of Self Hatred, God of Knots, All-Giver, the Torment Organ. They are the embodiment of self-loathing, self-destruction, and over-giving of oneself. They are embodied by the tying of too many knots and animal biting it's own leg among the Manava, the knotting of hair and gnarled trees among the Jabikah, and twisting of horn-crest and a prey animal presenting itself for sacrifice among the Lorperor. Symbolically, Organ Gods are focused on the spirit, the internal, so unlike a Shell God of Hatred which would be outward aggression, and a Feather God of Hatred which would be an intellectual aggression, Histlek is hatred turned inward. It is normal for Organ Gods to sacrifice some of their body to act as guide for sea souls to corporealize on land , but Histlek has cast away much more of their body compared to their fellows, with their remainders warring upon itself. Some say if you especially displeased the gods, they'd siphon your soul into Histlek's organs as eternal punishment . In Manavan cultures Histlek is a fate for those who make too many bad deals with Gods, or for those whose own self-hatred makes them bitter to their tribesmen. In Lorperor culture Histlek is more positive as a figure of great sacrifice, embodying the giving of one's self in favor of the group. Even then they are still seen as punishment for bad leaders and criminals who must give up everything for their failure to the Pride. Among the Jabikah they are a curse and another reason to loathe the gods. The Vulgoth view Histlek more like an obscure cousin that they've heard of but never met.
October 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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I think it's a good instinct to slap the forest lump.
October 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Quick concept sketch of one of the main threats in the D&D game I'm in.

A mass produced descendant of Baldur's Gate 3 's Steel Watchers, relying on more easily manufactured necro-fuel than it's predecessor's illithid puppeteering.
A line up of robots based on constables. Far left top: Two head concepts, one dark and bathed in harsh red n' blue light, the other brass and showing off the head lamp. Far Left: Green and stouter Constable robot. Center Left: Blue and tall Constable robot. Center Right: Steel and tall and broad Constable Robot Right: Skeletal insides of the Constable robot. The tall head contains six cameras and a head lamp. Green intestinal areas flow with necrotic fuel.
October 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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The deity of my DND Barbarian Zealot.

The anomalously existent god of the Dhy Shtarken half-orc tribe, GRAWL is a being of the strengthening of one's self and others.

Veiled in viscera of a beloved divine opponent, tongue whispering to the worthy so they may join in the Wallow.
A massive hippo laying in a cosmic starry blue pool. It is cloaked in a bright red covering of sinew and viscera. A large mouth filled with ten white tusk protrudes from the mass, holding a large cloudy blue orb within the maw. A dark serpent hangs from the mouth and curves towards the orb, it's body glowing internally.
September 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Some critters sketched for a Dark Crystal Creature Contest years ago.

Also Kermit.

#darkcrystal
Two angles of a hunched over creature. It's head is tiny and spider like with little dot eyes, back large and hairy, and limbs chunky with two fingers and two toes. Left is a side profile, Right is facing the viewer. An eyeless, blubbery mole-like creature, long snout, front limbs folded like wing-flippers, back legs chunky with toes pointing to the side. Upper left: A mole-like creature wearing a hollow stump over it's body with eye stalks poking from the top. Bottom center: The mole-like creature exposed, consisting of a fat lump body, a long snouted little head with closed eyes and meaty whiskered nose, and two fat limbs. Left: Two views of a soft bodied arthropod creature which were the source of the eye stalks from earlier. It has an almond shaped body with a wide mouth with six little limbs, two flipper suckers at the back, and a long prehensile tail. A ghoulish Kermit scrambles forward like a Bloodborne enemy.
September 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Dragon drawn for a classmate in College back in the day.

I think the guideline I was given was "Like Alduin, but bigger and cooler."
A massive stone grey dragon with towering spines and broad wings. It's face is menacing with a lipless snarl, red eyes, and a beard of spikes. An elephant is sketched beside for size reference.
September 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Some quick n' silly dragon doodles from a while back.
Big blue dragon with yellow wings, black horns, a beard of fins, several tusk, and bright red eyes. A little red ascending dragon with eye-spotted wings and a nasty grin. Long green serpentine dragon with red arms, bright yellow wings and fins, and purple horns.
September 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Some surprisingly relevant worldbuilding in 1994's "Aliens: Music of the Spears."

#alien #alienearth
September 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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T W I N - V E I L S
September 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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B E A C O N S
September 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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H I E R O P H A N T

Re-colour and edit of an old Xenomorph sketch.

#alienearth #xenomorph
Side profile of a strange xenomorph. Looking similar to the Big Chap design of the 1979 ALIEN, it has key differences such as a pointed nose like face, extended chin, and a tail that ends in a semi-transparent club with a long hooked blade.
August 31, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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Bathhouse of a Foul Serpent

Coloured in an ancient sketch of mine.
A massive, wrinkly, dragon-like creature looms relaxed and proud from a pit over a prepared knight. The dragon creature's head has a long nose and pointed ears and almost as pointed brows. It's eyes are a bright red above a lipless horse toothed grin. It's throat glows like a pale green lantern, lighting up the dark chamber it lays within. The knight has their back to the viewer, facing the creature with their shield raised and sword at the ready.
August 29, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Was replaying Aliens Vs. Predator 2 and found a note in it with a familiar premise in the second paragraph.
#alienearth
August 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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A sketch concept of a Managian while chatting with dimetrodone.
Side profile sketch of a turkey-like dinosaur creature. Their neck is thick and heavy with blue-to-pink skin flaps and bumps, while the body is covered in thick black feathers. A another sketch shows an alternate head with more ornate flaps and bumps that give the creature a heart shaped crown and snood.
August 17, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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#warframe

pt2

To be Hewn is the sacred dream of all Scolpirenauts, to earn their true divine shape after a crucible of glorious combat with a worthy “sculptor”.

The end result is a holy hulk molded by extraordinary physical trauma and a deeply mad faith.

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To be “Hewn” is the euphoric sacred dream of all Scolpirenauts, to earn their true divine shape after a crucible of glorious combat with a worthy “sculptor”. Every cut, puncture, dent, burn, corrosion, infection, frostbite, poison, and warp afflicting them influences their metamorphosis, developing in opposition to the dominant elements. The end result is a holy hulk molded by extraordinary physical trauma and a deeply mad faith, with images of the hallowed Progenitor and "The Hand of Command" expressing across their strange-metal shell. Compared to the Warframes that inspired them, they are slower and more plodding, but their unmatched resilience allows patient and strategic strikes to indulge in revelrous combat. New abilities blossom in the Hewn form, including control over personal gravity and the manipulation of energy inherited from their early form’s abuse, weaponized in the left arm in various types. A Hewn Scolpirenaut reveres the Warframe who acted as their sculptor, dedicating poems of violent gratitude or even part of their form to the carver that whittled them into divinity. After one last battle to test their new body against the Tenno, the Scolpirenaut gives them a choice: 1. To slay the Scolpirenaut for a good death (not wishing to stagnate in victory as the modern Grineer have) and “living on” as weapons for the Tenno to use. 2. To live on as an ally that can be inhabited much like the Warframes themselves, in hopes of either freeing the Grineer from The Twin Queens’ rot, or to finally see Tau and begin the stillborn crusade.
August 14, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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#warframe

Pt1

Dormant crusaders of a pre-Queens Grineer faith, built for a holy war they would never see, left adrift in the Void as Doom-Seeds, never to take purchase in Tau soil.
Bastardizations of Ballas' Warframes, they were left unfinished and seek their true war shape.

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Scolpirenauts, the long dormant crusaders of an extinct pre-Queens Grineer faith, built for a holy war they would never see and left adrift in the Void as Doom-Seeds, never to take purchase in Tau soil. They were made in secret, bastardizations of Ballas’ Warframe process that neglected use of the Helminth, deeming the parasite affront to the ideals of the faith. Utilizing mysterious alternatives, each Scolpirenaut rebirth required a year of manual cell-by-cell replacement, only survived by drinking of a “Void Wine” to preserve the mind. The final result is a crude biomechanical monstrosity, built to endure and adapt to physical trauma like a block of bellicose clay. With zealous hearts driven even madder by void exposure, Scolpirenauts enthusiastically seek extraordinary opponents and challenges, booming with poem and chant. To be whittled by war into a divine shape is their goal, much as the mythologized Progenitor of the Grineer did in the slaying of a Sentient in their fable. Frustrated by not only being denied the Old War but the New War as well, the Scolpirenauts seek a surrogate foe, a carver equal to their true "sicken-boned" enemy, a hammer of void and an anvil of sword-steel flesh to forge their untested body. The Tenno would do.
August 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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VERY quick sketch made during a DND session of robo-dogs that gave the party a hassle.
Two side profile views of a mechanical dog that appears skeletal and with limbs and jaws made like swivels. The right dog is steel, the left one is brass. Green tubing runs through their hollow insides, connecting to a spherical "eye" inside the hollow head. A center image displays that the jaws can open as wide as a prepared bear trap.
July 13, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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The disguise options of my DND character: Hippa TombTongue.
Top left: A tall broad figure in a dark green suit with matching rain cape, bowler hat, gloves, and dress shoes. His face is obscured by a massive dark curly beard and mane of hair. The moustache of the beard is capped by gold covers. Bottom right: A crouched figure wearing several blankets as robes. A white doily textured blanket covers the head, holes made for eyes to peer through. A deep blue blanket speckled with yellow stars draped the shoulders and tied in a knot to the chest. A pale red blanket covers the lower half. The long arms have rugs wrapped around the forearms like bracers. Pillow cases are worn as mittens. Both figures wield a dark club that shines blue, highlighting the brain-like wrinkles that texture these weapons.
July 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM