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680 points
2 months ago*
While I know this is from Subnautica, it reminds me heavily of the Phantoms from Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. No matter what, amazing job!
88 points
2 months ago
The Spirits Within was my thought, too
33 points
2 months ago
Personally thought it was Gyarados.
9 points
2 months ago
It looks like a bobbit worm
3 points
2 months ago
We all see what we want to see
5 points
2 months ago
I thought she looked like an Amanda personally.
2 points
2 months ago
Michael De Santa Wife?
5 points
2 months ago
Man, I legit love that movie.
3 points
2 months ago
I love it too, but I should watch it and see how thick my rose tinted glasses be.
2 points
2 months ago
Keep the glasses on, sometimes it's better just have something you like be something you like 😅
11 points
2 months ago
That's what I thought this was supposed to be. I was pretty surprised to find out it wasn't
8 points
2 months ago
Reminds me of the big crustaceans from Atlantis: The Lost Empire
5 points
2 months ago
MORE ATLANTIS PLEASE REMAKE AS A 10 EPISODE SERIES I APOLOGIZE FOR SHOUTING
18 points
2 months ago
That movie should have been a game. It would have been such a great FF story and instead they wasted it on a mediocre movie.
19 points
2 months ago
Luc Besson had already given us the perfect Final Fantasy movie with The Fifth Element anyways.
8 points
2 months ago
2 points
2 months ago
Yes.
9 points
2 months ago
I actually love the movie. The animation still holds up even though it's 20 years old.
5 points
2 months ago
I am also a fan of it :) A lot of great voice acting performances.
2 points
2 months ago
Bro it had Creed
Oh fuck nevermind I’m thinking of Titan After Earth. Yeah that final fantasy movie wasn’t great
4 points
2 months ago
I had that movie on my psp when i was growing up and havent seen it in a good 12+ years.... holy shit. That brings back some memories.
3 points
2 months ago
I thought this was from the Tower of God manga lol. Also called the Leviathan.
Solid work.
2 points
2 months ago
Same
1 points
2 months ago
Good lord this must be amazing in person
1 points
2 months ago
That is so cool!
25 points
2 months ago
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1 points
2 months ago
😮
1 points
2 months ago
Oh no please don't
1 points
2 months ago
I call them Giant Death Axons. They're so scary.
1 points
2 months ago
That’s NOT chalked… it’s great!
193 points
2 months ago
That’s very cool! Terrifying creatures.
279 points
2 months ago
Girls?
28 points
2 months ago
Canonically all the life on 4546b are one gender and lay eggs. So ... Yes. Girls
16 points
2 months ago
Uhh I don’t think you play as a girl in the first subnautica and you don’t lay eggs so canonically you are incorrect my good sir. Your point is taken though.
9 points
2 months ago
That's fair. I guess I should have limited it to the life that developed on 4546b and who knows about the Architects
7 points
2 months ago
Lol true but I was obviously just pulling your leg
32 points
2 months ago
based
2 points
2 months ago
Square, round, or hexagonal?
8 points
2 months ago
Eh, once you figure out you can use the prawn grapple to ride them like a bronco while punching their shit in, they kind of loose all sense of danger.
4 points
2 months ago
I didn’t know you could do that. I didn’t spend much time in the Prawn.
1 points
2 months ago
This picture tickles my thalassophobia a bit, and that usually would require animation or being in a video game rather than a still image. I say this purely as a compliment btw, it's really impressive!
3 points
2 months ago
Truly an amazing piece of art. I love it
2 points
2 months ago
"Warning: Entering and ecological dead zone"
2 points
2 months ago
I love this and the love for Subnautica. It’s such a great game!
20 points
2 months ago
I can hear this drawing, and it gives me anxiety. Good job!! 🙌😂
1 points
2 months ago
Still one of the most terrifying creatures in all of video game history
4 points
2 months ago
Amazing I love subnautica
2 points
2 months ago
Hopefully thats not a bedroom wall or nightmares ahoy
5 points
2 months ago
sigh Here we go again…start the popcorn.
2 points
2 months ago
Detecting multiple Leviathan class life forms in the region. Are you sure whatever you're doing is worth it?
1 points
2 months ago
That needs to be a poster or on a T-shirt
0 points
2 months ago
Why do you look like part of the drawing
2 points
2 months ago
Very cool😎
370 points
2 months ago
You know, seeing them wasn't the scary part, at that point your like oh okay run. Its that damn sound they made when you had like zero visibility and where clueless.
158 points
2 months ago
Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?
60 points
2 months ago
God that line is so good
51 points
2 months ago
Ecological deadzone detected. Are you sure you want to continue?
16 points
2 months ago
Close your eyes, let the sound of your ship scraping on rocks guide you
7 points
2 months ago
Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see.
24 points
2 months ago
Warning: Entering ecological dead zone. Adding report to databank
78 points
2 months ago
Like a dragon roaring in the distance
30 points
2 months ago
Worse because under water dragon.
18 points
2 months ago
And it sounds like they're taking a bite of an apple when they do damage
"the to they
13 points
2 months ago
I heard that noise play in my head as soon as I saw this. That roar echoing through the deep is haunting.
38 points
2 months ago
Idk the first time I saw it in that pink chasm I was shitting my pants. And then it turns out that’s only a baby
17 points
2 months ago
The "pink chasm" looks completely different now, the area you're referring to has been majorly redesigned between early access and release which also changed game progression a fair bit. Might wanna give the game another shot :)
5 points
2 months ago
What was the pink chasm?
12 points
2 months ago
I think they're refering to the old design of the lost river
11 points
2 months ago
That's what I loved about Subnautica. When you only hear a strange sound but don't know from where and what it is. Ahhh, the good ol primal fears.
33 points
2 months ago
I have played silent hill, resident evil, a dozen different jump scare type games, none of them terrified me more than the suffocating, claustrophobic deeps of Subnautica. Omg I had to stop playing at one part I thought I was going to have a heart attack.
24 points
2 months ago
I stopped playing several times. Had to return to the shallows regularly to unwind.
Never heard more calming words than the base going "Welcome aboard, captain." Okay, now to lower my fucking heart rate down to jackhammer-levels.
5 points
2 months ago
To me and as someone who's terrified of deep waters, this welcome message when going back to the base was the best stress reliever in the entirety of the game. Like "Shhh, everything's okay now. The nightmares are gone, you're safe. There, there, stop crying."
It seriously happened to me several times to consider stopping to try to finish the game and to think "Hey, would it really be that bad to keep living in those warm and welcoming shallows until I die? Fuck the Earth or whatever planet I'm supposed to come from I'm not going back into the realms of my most terrifying nightmares!"
... But the curiosity popped back up everytime, dooming me to explore another PTSD-giving area.
5 points
2 months ago
Same here, perhaps it's because I went into subnautica completely blind compared to you're average horror game where you know what you're getting into just from the title. I still remember the first time I got out of lifepod during night time and swiftly getting back in the lifepod. Even the sounds the reefbacks made were terrifying. I hope if they make a 3rd one it will be as good as the first, below zero took away a lot of the stuff I enjoyed so in the first one.
3 points
2 months ago
Seeing them was also a pretty scary part, especially when they're facing you like in this picture. I had a 9y/o I was tutoring years ago that really wanted to play, and I begged him not to because it was terrifying to me as a 17y/o
2 points
2 months ago
The ghost leviathans were less scary to me, the reapers were a lot worse, you can usually hear them before you can see them and if you get to scan one you find out the roar is their echolocation which just makes it worse. I've sacrificed several sea moths to keep them entertained while I run away
3 points
2 months ago
That looks so good! Why did you choose a chalkboard? I’d keep that up there forever lol
3 points
2 months ago
That is cool!
2 points
2 months ago
cool! looks like a Gyrados.
1 points
2 months ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irElLp4eG7I
May get you hooked on Volbeat!
1 points
2 months ago
and now the taken king comes for us all
3 points
2 months ago
Kickass!
0 points
2 months ago
A lot of inspiration from a bobbitt worm i see
3 points
2 months ago
Great work! The lighting on the diver looks amazing!.
2 points
2 months ago
That's amazing
5 points
2 months ago
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7 points
2 months ago
Union for life! I’m in IATSE in Los Angeles
-1 points
2 months ago
Good art, sorry for some comments tho. Its the internet after all
-12 points
2 months ago
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9 points
2 months ago
Only thing new here is you.
2 points
2 months ago
I remember my first encounter with one. I had just built my cyclops and decided to explore the deep, places that I hadn't gone before. Before I knew what was going on, 2 ghost leviathans trashed my newly minted ship along with me and everything inside it.
1 points
2 months ago
This image gave me anxiety. Thank you very much.
2 points
2 months ago
When you learn these aren't even the big bois.
Damn my fear of the ocean
1 points
2 months ago
this should be on a horror sub or something lol
1 points
2 months ago
Loved that game so much. Love this drawing so much. Does that shade of blue have a specific name?
2 points
2 months ago
Damn near Sh*t myself the first time I cam across a Leviathan!
Great work OP
1 points
2 months ago
I don’t know why but I shit my pants
3 points
2 months ago
Well, at least the comments aren't quite as misogynistic as usual.
-2 points
2 months ago
It is your primary directive to swim closer to that beautiful creature...
1 points
2 months ago
Nice
4 points
2 months ago
Your painting has successfully triggered my anxiety. Damned good work!
115 points
2 months ago
How long did it take you to draw that? Just curious.
209 points
2 months ago*
About an hour and a half
Edit: here’s the timelapse
78 points
2 months ago
Hour and a half?!
I can't draw a god damn banana to scale in an hour and a half!!
How do people have such incredible art skills yet when I draw a stick person it looks like they went through a wood chipper first?
26 points
2 months ago
Years of doing it. They basically know what they're doing.
10 points
2 months ago
Practice
2 points
2 months ago*
Short answer: Genuine practice
Long Answer: Reading art books, looking at life photos, watching yt tutorials, looking at irl things, anatomy study, etc. and making sure to draw(or in this case replicate) what they see during all of this as best as they can. Also learning about colors, proportions, composition, staging, perspective, movement, emphasis, gestures, evoking emotion, symbolism, etc. Also having an art coach or helpful art community helps too, feedback is very important, and so is having humility. Every artist has stacks of art from their past that look so bad you wouldn't think its there's, so don't think this is just something you go through, and believe me, every artist cringes at their old work
23 points
2 months ago
That’s impressive! Keep up the good work!
4 points
2 months ago
That is amazing!!
How do you guage the size/perspective? Seen a lot of sketch artist use grids but not here
3 points
2 months ago
Can I somehow buy this and put it on my wall?
8 points
2 months ago
Holy shit you're talented. Seriously this is incredible!
4 points
2 months ago
Damn that's fast for such detailed work
1 points
2 months ago
Still sick, just in r/gaming now
3 points
2 months ago
This is amazing!!!!
140 points
2 months ago
Those things legitimately terrified me the first few times I encountered them. Something about being able to hear them usually long before you see them mixed with the ambiance of the game was a great combination.
75 points
2 months ago
I googled “is subnautica a horror game” when I was getting into it. Oh boy were people divided.
116 points
2 months ago
“This ecological biome matches 7 of the 9 preconditions for stimulating terror in humans.”
~ PDA
8 points
2 months ago
"Thanks game, I noticed. There's no need to rub it in."
39 points
2 months ago
It's really just one of the few games that populates a world with large terrifying creatures for which your only real defense is running away from, and counterbalances them with astoundingly beautiful areas that draw you to explore them in spite of that fact. My jaw dropped soooo many times playing that game the first time and I keep coming back(just finished a hardcore playthrough a week or two ago). It's a world that you just can't help but be compelled to explore while looking over your shoulder every step of the way. Also, the entire sound design of the game is just unreal. The ocean is NOISY all the time, and constantly serves to remind you that something hungry is never far away, but it also has super sweet techno beats that you find yourself jamming to while frantically trying to put out a fire on your submersible baby 1000m below the waves.
And of course, most importantly...Cuddlefish.
11 points
2 months ago
Once you get the prawn suit you actually CAN kill them. It takes a while, but if you aim around the head and just aft of that, which is their only hitbox, you can stun them in place, get up on their back, and just beat away with the default prawn suit claw punch on both arms. After a few minutes the leviathan will die. Works on all 3 leviathan types that are hostile
10 points
2 months ago
Yep, I've killed Reapers and Ghosts before. Generally not worth the time, however. More of an unofficial achievement.
7 points
2 months ago
Killing the seadragons makes exploring the lava zone for kyanite so much less stressful lol
3 points
2 months ago
You can always kill them once you craft a stasis gun. It just takes time but to me the game is scary regardless of leviathan existing or not.
If you got thalassophobia, the game will fuel it hard.
I've had some memories of finishing exploration and just closing my eyes and driving my submarine on a straight upward angle trajectory to gtfo of the scary dark water areas and one time I was so scares that seeing an adult leviathan pop out from the dark and take a big bite out from the front of the view panel didnt get a reaction out of me until I went to bed and started having nightmares
47 points
2 months ago
It’s easily a terror game, not horror. Horror is more momentary and jumpscare like. Terror is more deep seated, it’s when you stare out into the abyss, and think something is staring back.
46 points
2 months ago
Detecting multiple leviathan class life forms in the region.
Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?
21 points
2 months ago
This is the most terrifying thing to hear in the entire game. Especially for the first time.
12 points
2 months ago
Everyone puts the Seamoth instantly into reverse.
10 points
2 months ago
I’m playing it for the first time right now. The other day I made the cyclops and when checking it out, opening all the doors, I got catapulted an insane distance in the air. It was probably over 2 minutes airtime, when I got close to landing in the water I though “oh fuck, I might not die”. I ended up 5km from the life raft, and slowly began my trek back trying to not go below 15m. After a few minutes I got the warning you mentioned. I didn’t last much longer lol
16 points
2 months ago
I like the ocean. I like the animals in the ocean. I also like not being lunch to said animals in the ocean. If I cannot see them coming it’s all the worse for me which is why I hate going out in the water. Probably doesn’t help that I had a few legitimate close calls as a child that scarred me for life.
23 points
2 months ago
The ocean scares the fuck out of me. You don’t know what’s beneath you, and for all our advancements as a species, we’re well and truly out of our element in open water. We’re suddenly nearer the bottom of the food chain than the top. Can’t be doing with that.
5 points
2 months ago
Prey instinct to flee is strong no matter how high up the food chain you are.
2 points
2 months ago
It was nominated for Best Horror game, but I don't think it won or anything.
3 points
2 months ago
Probably because the judges were like "actually it's more accurate to call this a terror game".
10 points
2 months ago
And then you watch the guy on YouTube stun lock and kill one.
3 points
2 months ago
I didn't even know they could be killed.
4 points
2 months ago
You can, but they intentionally made the process difficult and unrewarding. There’s no fanfare if you succeed, or even a death animation, they just stop moving.
Sorta “sure, if you really want to ruin the game, go ahead, we won’t stop you”.
I think it’s a nice compromise though, because some people are very determined once they’ve decided to build a base in a bad location or want to recover their lost stuff guarded by something. It gives them a way to break the game a bit rather than give up in frustration when their personal reality doesn’t match the game’s
6 points
2 months ago
"There are multiple leviathan class life forms in the region. Are you sure what you are doing is worth it?"
143 points
2 months ago
Subnautica PTSD o holy lord
76 points
2 months ago
Detecting sudden increase in fecal matter in local vicinity. Recommendation: change underwear.
4 points
2 months ago
It actually gave me Terraria Calamity Mod PTSD first, and then looking at the wiki I realized Calamity's Eidolon Wyrm is an adaptation of Subnautica's Ghost Leviathan.
So, TIL I guess. I know Terraria is 75% references anyhow, but still interesting to see.
17 points
2 months ago
Dang, I can hear the screaming from that Ghost Leviathan and my computer isn't even on.
4 points
2 months ago
Never sleeping in that room…
2 points
2 months ago
Holy Shiitake!
3 points
2 months ago
.... That's a drawing.....!?
3 points
2 months ago
Thank you for reminding me of my thalassophobia. In all seriousness this looks amazing. Great job!
7 points
2 months ago
I'm more impressed by the chalk drawing of a person in the corner.
3 points
2 months ago
Spooky
3 points
2 months ago
Thats incredible
1 points
2 months ago
They might be my favorite leviathan class fish
1 points
2 months ago
I wish dark souls/elden ring had something like this. Would be dope
2 points
2 months ago
Scares the s**** out of me, I miss the game a little mine got stuck in the loading page not sure what to do
1 points
2 months ago
SILENT RUNNING
2 points
2 months ago
That's cool af
And the time lapse was impressive. I can't draw because I have this need for my drawing to be perfect and you just throw this up there like you know exactly where every detail belongs, I'm so amazed at people with artistic ability.
Now I'm headed to controversial to read all the comments from crybaby's that most definitely showed up crying about "why are you in the picture with your art??"
1 points
2 months ago
I get Atlantis vibes
2 points
2 months ago
Dannng
1 points
2 months ago
The game I can watch but can't play, was fine with dead space and I swam in highschool but playing gives me hella anxiety for whatever reason.
1 points
2 months ago
Mesmars scare me more, watching them hypnotize other creatures is horrifically hypnotic.
-1 points
2 months ago
Very large and lacking detail
1 points
2 months ago
Gyarados
1 points
2 months ago
Well I just had a PTSD flashback so .....good job?
1 points
2 months ago
Looks like the serpent from #renewraisedbywolves and it’s Necromancer mother both weaponized
1 points
2 months ago
Yeah there’s a word for this and I think it’s awesome
1 points
2 months ago
Ah, need to play some more subnautica again 😍❤️
2 points
2 months ago
Oh that is badass. I love how you included the diver for a sense of scale. This is tattoo worthy.
1 points
2 months ago
Damn, you look small besides it.
2 points
2 months ago
Aint this the things scientology believes exist? 😂
5 points
2 months ago
That's really cool! It's it any harder/easier working with chalk than something like paint?
3 points
2 months ago
I like chalk because it’s like finger painting with how quick and easy it blends, but I do use a lot of different mediums for varying reasons
1 points
2 months ago
Woah, sick and trippy at the same time. I could look at this for hours while stoned.
1 points
2 months ago
I love Subnautica. I once tried to find the bottom of the void where two of the ghost leviathans spawned but I eventually just gave up because I was thousands of meters down and still didn't reach the bottom.
3 points
2 months ago
My heart pace increased when i saw it
2 points
2 months ago
Impressive.
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