#alien design
The Suitor. The Appraiser. The Painter.
In a galaxy where lineage and looks are the most valued currency, there is but one catch: Virtual images can’t be trusted, so rich and powerful Lords across the galaxy commission painters to portray their offspring, in order for them to get married.
These realistic nude paintings are kept safe in an Art Gallery, where appraisers from all over gather and see who’s the most perfect specimen to please their clients.
school stuff from a while ago!
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A little test with Adhara
One of the headcanons I had for Celeste was that she’d shapeshift into whatever intelligent race inhabited the planet she visited; in order to acclimatize better with the locals
Just wanted to share this tidbit on this sharpshooter alien’s bday
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Although centuries of abuse and mismanagement have reduced Earth’s once bountiful oceans to a lifeless chemical broth, a great abundance of carbon-based organisms not dissimilar to ancient earth life continue to thrive in the outer reaches of the galaxy, far from human interference.
The first robotic probes to Tantum XII detected vast swarms of complex life cavorting through the perpetual darkness of the gas giant’s upper atmosphere. To the shock of human observers back on Earth, these aerodynamic creatures were observed tumbling unpredictably through the nutrient rich clouds, raising and reducing their altitude at apparent whim. Subsequent missions have discovered over 200 distinct varieties of life amidst the swirling hydrogen clouds of Tantum XII.
Scientifically designated as Balaena (though often more casually described as “Arrowheads”) these vast organisms “swim” gracefully through the upper layers of their gas giant’s atmosphere, feeding on particulate matter and absorbing solar radiation. Balaena lack a central nervous system and possess only the relative intelligence of an Earth sponge. Because there is no solid material in their gaseous habitat to navigate around, Balaena never developed the complex intelligence necessary to interact with their environment, and even Balaena apex predators are relatively stupid by the standards of most Earth life.
Most species are able to alter their buoyancy with a rudimentary gas bladder in response to changing atmospheric temperature, and rise to the higher levels of their atmosphere during their planet’s several week long day before retreating to the deeper levels for the long night. Observation suggests that these creatures can live for hundreds of Earth years, but eventually age and sink into the deeper layers of their planet where they are crushed by increasing atmospheric pressures.
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Look at this cutie I done drew!
I mean, why give them a bunch of sharp teeth and these cool palps and mandibles if they’re not gonna use them in a very edgy desperate act of lethal self defense after getting their face all messed up?
(Most of that isn’t their blood but also they pass out like ten seconds later.)
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this is a casualty of the time I spent not working on art as much due to my arm injury, for some ungodly reason I was gonna like, make all of these really polished and finished looking but like, honestly I really just made them to get a handle on how their face worked.
But there’s been a few tweaks to their design since I’ve done these
a more up to date WIP to demonstrate how they’ve developed (mostly their face is a bit less flat)
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Haven’t done any drawings for a while so I thought I’d try to make something that was more than a sketch. I might make a 3D version one day :)
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Alien Redesign - WIP Update 6 - Rafinement
Reworked everything… pretty much, haha. Now there’s a lot more contrast in the shapes, less flat.
WIPs on Blogger
Full images on ArtStation
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Alien Redesign - WIP Update 5.5 - New Torso Comparison
Decided to go with a more slim design for the back. I thought to myself “Would it be able to crawl through an air vent to catch a victim?”. The long back tubes screamed “No” for me, so I looked at an early Giger design and tried a compromise between the two.The goal is that the alien can rotate its head 90* upward and it would fit between the “shoulder blades” without adding too much volume to the silhouette.
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Alien Redesign - WIP Update 5 - Lunch Break Sculpting
The forehead is now more uniformly slanted and no longer bulbous. Resculpted the skull to look less goofy with smaller eye sockets and better proportions. Added more human-like lips. Replaced the back tubes by something similar to an early Giger design. I’m not happy with the back yet, too noisy. Also, showing the “tongue” I’ve been working on. Something made to either impale from a longer distances or to penetrate a victim and rip them apart from the inside.
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Alien Redesign - WIP Update 4 - Render TestsTrying to find a good lighting style. Some tests here and there before I make this a functional model, topologized, textured and rigged.
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Alien Redesign - WIP Update 3 - The Sculpting Continues Refining shapes and adding details… yeah… generic description, I know.
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Alien Redesign - WIP Update 1 - Portrait Test
I was going to make my own xenomorph design sooner or later, so here it is! I’ve never been a big fan of the post 1979 on-screen designs (except the recent Neomorph). I’m trying to get back the more “I’m a creepy and intelligent stalking killer” feel of the original film and less of the “I’m a mindless space-ant and I eat you” impression of the sequels.
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A little something different. Had this in my wip folder for quite some time. Just an alien/ aquatic species design that was quite fun to do.
There is a second version on my Twitter, that I cannot not post here (or at least I think so).
