Armor Games

:P
When I was twelve or thirteen or something like that, I was really busy with creating lots and lots of creatures for my fantasy world, Yaltama. At some point I found out it was possible to base designs off of people's characteristics - both physical and mental. So I did a bunch of such designs, with varying success. Specie name then derived from the name of the person.
The best ones are probable the aekrael (or ecrel) and the mazzelh. The aekrael was based on my best friend back then, Laerke (sadly lost contact with her later on), and is a bird like critter.
The mazzelh is based on myself, actually. The name derived from 'mig selv' which is the Danish term for 'myself', and mazzelh is just different enough for it not to be obvious.
So yeah, mazzelhs started out as something quote personal to me. I can analyze their physical design and why I made it that way, if anyone wants me to.
Later on, they developed as a specie away from my personality, so now it's just Yazz who's sort of me. :3

I'll just post some links to the only pictures I could find of some~

A normal aekrael, though I messed up the colours pretty badly. But physically this is what they look like.
An anthro aekrael, handdrawn and hand coloured. The colours are much more true to the species here.
Mouse drawn anthro aekrael. Because I have it.

The first one kind of reminds me of spore for some reason...

I guess it could be possible to make a creature like that in Spore?
It has gotten compared to chocobos before...

The second looked kind of pixely and wierd

Forgot to use a soft brush. Pixelated lineart happens when you use the equivalent of a pencil tool... As for the 80s look, that's purely coincidental. :P

How old were you when you drew them?

14-15, 17, 17/18... I think. In that order with the drawings.
As for the phoenix resemblance, I blame the colour scheme. :P

Oh, and the usual THANK YOU to every compliment there. :3

This have mazzelhs on it...

With a reference to an almost two year old scribble I made.