I'm Slowly Making A Few Characters For Union-Station. This Is Francis, A CSG Construct That Works As

Another page of space encyclopedia completed, this time the Brakken.

"The creation of the Brakken was a point of contention among the Imsee, as some argued that by intervening in the natural evolutionary process they were upsetting the consciousness within the cosmic intellect and that any knowledge gleamed from their work with the brakken is obscured and illegitimate. Eventually Imsee curiosity overrode any moral quandaries they may have had." - Sagan-V

I'm honestly sort of happy with how this one came out in the end, I've got a few more alien species I want to make introductory pages for, so I've got some cooking to do.

Inktober 1 

Forgotten Giant

colored and sketched in krita inked with staedtler fineliners 

With the new alien covenant trailer lurking around I’m going through a bit of an alien-phase. I wanted to try my hand at drawing a xenomorph-human hybrid that wasn’t the monstrosity in Alien: Resurrection. Basically my take was a more fleshy fusion of Sil from species and a xenomorph. 

This is part of my ME:A au universe, I’m calling it ME:Singularity at the moment. The basic gist is that the Andromeda Galaxy has pre-established alien societies that are the main governing power in the Andromeda, much like the milky way, but strange and foreign by ME standards.

This is the Omaridyne, they are one of the three original founders of the Galactic Commune, the largest political and governing body in the Andromeda Galaxy. There closes earth analogs are echinoderms or sea cucumbers. The Omaridyne evolved on a moon orbiting the gas giant Oli and as a result, started space exploration significantly earlier due to the close proximity of Oli’s habitable moons. They would later have first contact with the Tyreem and found the Galactic Commune. 

The Omaridyne are the only species in the galaxy that have three biological sexes. These are male, female, and namlee. Their third sex, the namlee allows them to produce hybrid offspring with other levo-amino acid species. In addition, Omaridyne also changes their sex based on the availability of suitable mates. 

There’s a lot more about the Omaridyne but I’ll continue it in a later post

A rough sketch of the Dram, another alien species from my worldbuilding project. I wanted another group of aliens which can be considered the closet to humans in terms of biology and body plan. They're built a bit like bears, but are comfortable walking on either four or two legs. They're sort of the new comers to the setting as they haven't spent much time in space and are supposed to have a sort of modern tech aesthetic.

Although I'm not sure if i should make them even more alien in appearance with out moving to far away from the "like-bipedal-humanoid-alien-but-also-not-really" vibe they have at the moment.

Old art - Comics

A short webcomic I made for the WOMBATS, a local art group I used to be apart of. It was a fun little project to make, and the characters are very much inspired by Miis.

Mercurions, aka cyborgs

In my setting Union Station, humans have been in space for more than a millennium and as such have culturally diverged a lot from their terran ancestors. The history of the mercurions is kinda complex. For one, they aren't actually from mercury despite the name, they instead originate from the colony-ship Mercurion which was created as part of the New Horizon Initiative by the governing bodies of the sol system. The goal was to set humanity among the stars, but the Mercurion never arrived at its intended destination, and instead ended up 100 light-years off course in an unknown and hostile star system. Early, FTL at the time, was very risky.

Multiple catastrophe's aboard the mercurion caused the handful of survivors to turn to reproductive cloning and later cybernetics to survive.

As a culture, their society is highly stratified as a result of the Merilink system, a state-enforced caste system managed by a super computer (to be clear not a sentient AI). The initial idea behind Merilink, was to create a meritocracy, were all mercurions were born at the same level of citizenship / rights and could elevate their status based on merit, which usually ended up meaning either wealth or "labor productivity". As expected, it resulted in a deeply rooted system of inequality.

A long history of warfare, imperialism, and xenophobia has essentially left mercurion society fairly isolated from the rest of the interstellar community until fairly recently. There's a movement amoung them to reduce or even remove the merilink system although whether or not it'll actually happen is still up up in their air.

I still have a lot more to put out for these guy's I'm just really bad at getting it out of my head and onto paper

aliens, I made a D&D character which was very much not human and needed some weird wild shape forms

-Danger on the Catwalks-

I’ve been watching a lets play of rainworld and now I just what to draw concept art and stuff. Probably for things I’ll never make but hey it’s good practice. I might make a part 2 or something.

What could’ve been. Classic speculative space art by Robert McCall