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Hello Unicorn

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Made this one a couple of days ago... playing around with some styles..

Funny how people think that this unicorn can't eat grass so it will die and thus it's a bad design... I see your point, However 1) its a fantasy creature😅😂 , and 2) There are a lot of Ungulates that don't eat grass but shrubs or trees etc- like giraffes and some antelope and mountain goats etc.. However, I like to think that Magical creatures such as unicorn don't require the same sustenance as biologically accurate animals (Shadavhar was a carnivore!). In fact in mythology many such creatures are simply created out of magic and/or earth elements and exist for one sole purpose, so they don't really eat~ :la: But I digress, as even in real life, there are lots of animals that are cursed by their own terrible evolutionary adaptations, like those warthogs whose tusks grow long enough to pierce their skulls (and rams with their horns). On the other hand there are those that lose the ability to eat after maturity either because of overdeveloped mouth parts, or a total absence of mouth parts.

As for this drawing? This Unicorn's purpose, is to gore unsuspecting fools- attracted by the wonder and prospect of such an exotic wonder, they stray too close and are hastily, violently, introduced to the Unicorn's most distinctive feature. In an instant, they have more blood and viscera outside their bodies than they do inside. The Unicorn is invigorated by the presence of carrion in it's territory. Amidst the rot and the flies, it's skin hardens to rock. It's furious hooves and horn gouge the earth, tilling the corpses into the soil, and the forest grows wild, drunk on fetid.... fecund... fertile soil. The Vitality hangs heavy in the air, and the Unicorn breathes it in. It enters his pores. There is so much energy in the air that like dewdrops it clings to and drips down the Unicorn. In it's domain, the Unicorn does not prance, skip, or gallop. It just charges. It tramples. It rips up both plant and creature. The forest is constantly torn and remade, and in this perpetual cycle of vigor, the Unicorn thrives.
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How is this animal supposed to eat grass or anything else for that matter? Almost a good concept.