Viridus Cervus is a creature design by me and ~rashka-jm, which we came up with together and drew at the same time. We want to make these outbursts of combined creativity a regular thing, so we decided to make a collaborative account for the both of us, which we called ~BestiaMentis.
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This particular drawing is V.C. sporting their summer coat. Their main coat consists of moss-like material, the rest of them is obviously covered in leaves. The idea is that the leaves will change to their typical autumn colours when the season changes and start to drop. In the winter they will be mostly bald with a ligher coat, and in spring they will "bloom" .
I'm fully aware that the anatomy is not accurate (for a deer) and the legs were elongated, but then the purpose of our combined account and these concepts are purely to inspire creativity, and it worked! We had lots and lots of fun coming up with this design and I do think it's grown into something pretty interesting !