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To start, I would like to say that I am a big fan of the overall design of this creature. The grisly, brutish look of it is very well captured in the appendages and head. They look powerful and quite deadly. The mandibles are a very nice touch and works really well with the singular eye. The spines add a tough, rigidness almost to the creature, and with the other smaller details like the pigmentation and sinew on the neck, it looks ready to maul an elephant to death.This however, brings me to a point of confliction with the creature and it's description. It looks, to me at least, like a large, omnivorous, mammalian insectoid highly adapted to defend itself from an equally large predator(s). Sure, I could see it scavenging carcasses, carefully picking through them with those long fingers and slowly ingesting small pieces through it's tiny mouth, but that doesn't seem to be what this creature was built for.It's size, or at least what I would assume its size to be based on the flora in the background, would require a large amount of caloric intake. And, as it's mostly covered in mammalian skin, would need a equally large amount of fluids to combat loss due to evaporation. Now, there do seem to be some scales occurring in patches on the body, however the perceived amount of surface area that is not covered in scales or exoskeleton is great enough to merit a high need for fluids. This is all, of course, assuming the creature moves very much at all, which I'm sure it does.This is a major dilemma, as it seems to be too big to be able to expend much energy in a desert environment, but at the same time seems geared to be able to hunt and kill anything it's own size or smaller, access hard to get food sources, and claim and maintain a territorial piece of land. All these things however, require a lot of energy and, given the desert environment, a lot of land. These two things are in opposition as you cannot be expending large amounts of energy without also consuming large amount of sustenance. Simply put, the environment would make it next to impossible for the creature to collect enough sustenance required to generate enough energy to keep collecting the amount of sustenance it needs to continue living.In conclusion, I would like to again state that I do very much like the design of the creature. It looks friggin' scary and awesome, and I would totally flip out if I saw it in like a movie or something. The ascetic is stellar, absolutely stupendous. It's just that I don't think it is exceedingly believable in the context it has been portrayed in, if you couldn't tell from my pseudoscientific rant. Anyway, great work, always a fan. No doubt a small masterpiece. Artwork of this caliber is not common and should be recognized as such and celebrated.