it's so refreshing getting world news that isn't an immediate threat to anyone's life or just otherwise depressing. this is what world news should be. a big ole boat drew a penis and then got stuck in a canal and now a sizable chunk of world trade has ground to a halt. wonderful. this costs me nothing
Another WIP. Klingons are too much fun to draw.
Decided I didn’t like my old version of this lineup. WIP; still got a couple more people to add.
Hey, i have a twitter!
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Cicada, Stages of Conventionalization
Hugo Froelich, Keramic Studio Magazine, 1905
Noss, from the Voyager episode Gravity. One of my favorite episodes, I’ve been trying to nail down her redesign for ages.
Another WIP; also Lwaxana. She and Deanna are both weirdos in Betazoid culture since they wear clothes, but for rather different reasons.
A WIP; Lwaxana chooses Riker.
Still got a couple more to add, but here’s the Voyager lineup!
Lon Suder, from Voyager. Cold and aloof, especially for a Betazoid; he almost never bothers to use his cirri.
A few sketches from the Betazoid design process.
Betazoids are extremely colorful. Their colors become more vibrant in times of high emotion, and color patterns/markings are distinct among families, to the extent that they’re used as identifiers, the way humans use last names.
*The mouth is very similar to that of a stingray, and has the same flat, ridged plates of ‘teeth’
I know your first impulse is to despair. To say we’re fucked. To feel desperate and hopeless. I feel it. We all feel it.
But Notorious RBG would not have wanted us to lie down and accept defeat.
She’d have wanted us to fight like hell. And that’s what we’re going to do.
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Some tentative Betazoid designs. The cirri (feelers) help with their telepathic senses; a bit like using glasses or a magnifying glass. Upon entering a room, a Betazoid will often extend their cirri for a moment to literally get a feel for the situation.
I don’t know what he’s saying, but he’s not happy about it.
The Kazon are an insectoid species native to the Gamma Quadrant. They are aggressive, warlike, and highly territorial, and their population is divided into constantly changing sects. Biologically, the Kazon are hermaphroditic; each individual is capable of both carrying and siring offspring. Socially, almost all Kazon are male. Female Kazon occur once every few generations, and are a kind of servant class.
Kazon live in family groups consisting of a lead male (the Maj), several secondary males, and their children, anywhere from three to six at a time. Only the Maj produces offspring. Eggs are laid semi-annually in clutches of up to 50 and guarded ferociously during incubation, but sibling rivalry is common and even encouraged, and only a handful ever make it to maturity.
Romulans are superficially similar to Vulcans, since they have a shared ancestry. They’re much more craggy-looking, however, with a more prominent four-segmented beak, and less spindly, since their home planet isn’t as hot as Vulcan.
Walking and talking.
The Bolian’s doing most of the talking.