I know I haven't been here for three months, thus I am supposed to be unable to contribute new races or stuff like that to the site yet. This first image is drawn in anticipation for the time when I will be allowed, further down the line (assuming I am still around ). Until then, I'm just going to continue drawing more images and fleshing out the civilizations background and other important details so that it might eventually be found acceptable when I present it for the approval / refusal process.

I've got to have something to do between posts .



This ones an example of a Vasurah officer, tentatively named Aria.

Haven't decided entirely on the specifics of the races physiology yet; I'm mainly thinking along a mixture of reptilian-mammalian or amphibian-mammalian traits. The glowing spots are due to natural bio-luminescence (like firefly's); gotta love glowing in the dark.

This image is also an example of the standard ship-board uniform, with the base color indicating division (ie command, engineering, security etc), and the secondary color indicating rank. In this case, black = command and gold = captain equivalent rank. Though this is subject to change further down the line.

The panels also glow in the dark, and the forearm pieces are supposed to support holographic ship interfaces.

On a side note, this took about a whole day for me to draw because I suck at drawing by hand and I don't own the proper tools... drawing entirely by mouse in photoshop sucks great black hairy $(#*#.

I'll probably add more images to this thread intended for use in the races wiki articles once I get around to drawing them. I'm also refreshing my google sketch-up skills in order to make some good ship and vehicle models.

'nough said for now.

EDIT: Re-uploaded the image with the line-work at 60% opacity to make it easier on the eyes.

Interesting limbs you have there.

I look at it and I'm very much reminded of some artistic elements of the color sci-fi webcomic named Outsider. Did you draw inspiration from the hair of one of the Loroi in the comic, as well as the Loroi armor?

You've got a very keen eye. Yes, I did base the face and hair off the character Arclight from Jim Francis' Outsider webcomic. The armor is also partially based on his design, though due to obvious anatomical differences I also referenced several other sources. Nicely spotted.

I'm going to re-upload the pic in a minute, I don't like how thick the lines are and am going to dumb them down a bit to make it easier on the eyes.

My feeling on the picture is that it has too much 'human' in it. The lower body is neat, the arms are interesting, but then you have the upright straight-backed amazonian-proportioned female torso with the exotically colored but quite recognizable humanoid head.

I would've liked the center body to dare to be more alien, and to have a posture that went along better with the limbs.

You know what? The face and hair reminds me of the Meltrandi drummer from Macross 7. Its a very old anime so I'm gonna suppose its just a coincidence but I couldn't help think that after I looked at the face and expression a couple times. Not that that's bad I just had one of those connection moments.

I wanted to retain a more human appearance around the face and torso after abandoning an earlier version with completely alien features; the first version was snake-like with three eyes and horns growing out of its forehead crest, a bull-like neck and armor plating all over the place. It came across as a wee bit too menacing in my opinion.

I might add the horns on again without making them look too evil... it would make them look almost like the Gargoyles from that old Disney cartoon series of the 90's... minus the wings. Or I could go back to the original face, but keep the hairstyle... what do you think?



(A piece of the early version just showing the head)

I kinda like the original-style face better than the humanoid one. Can you do a sketch of the full design for that version?

Fortunately I saved often when making the first pic. I've edited the image and changed it from having a humanoid face to the more alien one. It hasn't come out half-bad... I might actually prefer it myself.

So guys, cast your votes. Which is better?

I also fixed the tail luminescence in the second image so it doesn't just suddenly stop half-way.



EDIT: Re-uploaded the image again because somehow when I changed the face I managed to make the glow go all crazy and shine twice as bright. I've now toned down the glow. *shudder* It was coming across as a living neon sign.

Whilst I'm not planning on finishing it off... here's all I did of the abandoned original Vashurah concept. It was coming across as way too over-the-top muscular and it was taking me forever to draw because of all the detail going into the armor plates. I began to dread the thought of having to create multiple images based upon this one, like an equally muscular and detailed male version and having to do such detailed images in multiple poses. I can't draw all that fast by mouse alone and it would take me forever.

I'm posting a direct link because it might be considered NSFW on account of the nakedness (though there are technically no naughty bits visible as the torso is completely covered by exoskeleton). I was trying to get the general body shape and layout down before adding clothing and trying my hand at the races uniform.

The simple lines for the legs and tail were just intended as a guide as to the rough body shape I was originally going for, which I deleted as I went along. In this first version of the Vashurah I didn't intend to have the reversed bone-structure for the lower portions of the legs that the present version has.

http://img709.imageshack.us/i/vasurahprototype.jpg/ (Possibly NSWF)

These are pretty awesome.