[Image ID: a colored pencil drawing of Krejjh from The Strange Case of Starship Iris. They are a humanoid purple alien with four arms, four eyes, goat-like ears that are pierced in several places, and four sensory stalks with bioluminescent tips that crown their head. They are wearing a loose white crop top and black capri leggings. They are sitting barefoot on a metal bench built into a riveted metal wall, in front of a round window through which a pink nebula is visible, looking peaceful. /end ID]
[Image ID: a pencil sketch of Krejjh from The Strange Case of Starship Iris, drawn from the hips up. They are a humanoid alien with four arms. They have a round face with four wide-set eyes and a flat nose. They are laughing, grinning widely and showing sharp teeth. They have floppy, goat-like ears pierced in several places and four sensory stalks with bioluminescent ends protruding from their head. They are wearing a loose crop top and have a surface piercing in each hip. /end ID]
Hashing out my Krejjh design, the new season has me ITCHING to draw these fabulous characters. If you like queer space pirates fighting corrupt governments (and I know you do) you should be listening to this podcast.
AU In Which Everything Is The Same, But There’s A Ghost Squid
On the heels of my last comic about Episode 7 (thank you so much for all the notes and lovely tags on that, you guys are the best!), here’s another riff on Episode 7. I’ve always thought that Ricky Q’s delivery of the line “…or your ship is haunted.” is honestly hilarious. I know it’s meant to be flippant and arrogant, but something about the way he says it just cracks me up. Anyway, in this AU Ricky Q has to reconcile himself to the existence of Frankie the Ghost Squid (Brian named them) who yes, might be haunting the ship, but is very polite about it.
Drawing these comics (even just the two that I’ve done so far) has been a really interesting exercise in realising that I don’t actually have a clear mental image of any of the cast - even though I consider myself to be a pretty visual thinker normally - except for Sana. I’m not sure if that’s because I spent more time picturing her when I wrote Good For Morale in order to think up and then describe her date outfit, or if it’s because fanart of Sana tends to be, on the whole, pretty consistent in how she’s depicted? But it becomes an interesting challenge to try and decide on an appearance for the other characters. I have endless fun with Krejjh, whom I now headcanon has a thing for both wrist and neck adornments (and in case you can’t make it out, they are wearing a T-shirt with a dinosaur and the word ‘DINO’ on it, because dinosaurs!) but Ricky Q was a challenge. What kind of outfit would best sum up his smug fuckboi essence? Initially I thought of some kind of really idiotic “sneaky” outfit involving a black beanie and all-black attire, but he does work with a lot of criminal organisations, so he’d probably dress nicely to Show Them Who’s Boss. And of course, he had to have a fedora. All of which was a “fun” challenge for my limited drawing skills, but persevere I did! (Even when I had to redraw the last panel because his face looked really weird, and then I obliterated the paper by rubbing it out too many times. This is also why his skin tone is more vivid in the last panel, because I forgot that I’d originally coloured him to be super pasty).
I have an assortment of ideas for other short comics and I’m having fun with these even if they take me a while. So watch this space!
I saw this sweater on here a while ago and IMMEDIATELY was like “oh krejjh 100% would wear that” so here’s this dusnaoam
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A traditional drawing of krejjh from starship iris. they are a four eyed and armed alien with a fluffy mohawk. they have long elf-like ears that have been pierced 3 times along the top and once at the bottom, they also have a septum piercing. they are grinning and have one hand on their hip, another holding a peace sign, and two resting at their sides. they are wearing a sweater that has a dinosaur on it, the scales of the dinosaur extend along the top right sleeve, making it look like that arm is part of the tail. they are also wearing a skirt and high top shoes. –END ID
“up and down are mere ideas, the laws of physics a polite suggestion, let’s get rude ::)”
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A non-colored pencil drawing of krejjh, arkady, and sana from starship iris. they are all 3 standing in front of the control console of a ship. krejjh has four arms, the top two pulling on two different ropes on the ceiling and the bottom two hitting buttons and things on the control panel below them. they’re about twice the size of sana and arkady, who are both standing beside them. arkady is on their left, wearing a cropped tank top that reads “if lost return to sana tripathi”. arkady is also wearing an eyepatch and a terrified expression as she stares out the front of the ship. sana is on krejjh’s right and is wearing a headscarf and a short sleeved shirt that reads “I’m sana tripathi”. she has a reassuring arm on krejjh and looks a little anxious at their current actions.
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