I found this guy on a random pinterest board and looked into his site and I loved his creature designs, particularly a project he worked on called Copernicus.
http://nicholaskole.deviantart.com/
The project: https://www.behance.net/gallery/8532241/Project-Copernicus
These are some other of his concepts that I really liked. Kerry has decided on modelling the bottom right aquatic creature. I am undecided between the little bat creature, this big blue one below and the hermit-like creature above. Each have some lovely textured details that I could add :
Abigail Gelston 