Slight Redesign Of The Brakken, Working On Making Another Info-graph For Space-encyclopedia But A Few

More shading practice , this time a dragon rider. I haven’t drawn a dragon in quite some time.

markers, color pencils

portrait of one of my D&D characters

Sketch WIP

Imsee Recorder with adopted child

I've been thinking a little bit how the Imsee relate to their intelligent constructs. I'm a bit hesitant to call them robots since I think its a very human-centric term that probably doesn't translate well to other sophonts. The idea of the mechanical servant, just wasn't really prevalent among their kind and they had more of a tendency to view technology as either tools or direct extensions of themselves. Mix that in with their propensity to cybernetics and you essentially have a species who finds the concept of an intelligent machine kind of absurd.

So why do they have sapient robots anyway? , you may ask. Well Imsee have incredibly long and well detailed memories and due to the nature of their language can communicate amongst their kind much quicker and in far greater detail than humans. And so, for a long time, most information was retained though oral traditions and the death of a storyteller or a record keeper was a pretty big deal. For the Imsee, intelligent machines were not workers but instead a unique way retain life past death. Its kind of a soma situation, recorders retain the memories of Imsee who've pasted on, and are seen as an aspect of the individual which created them.

I had an idea, of a sort of mecha / vehicle that my race of aliens the Imsee might use. Sort of their version of a chicken walker. I'm still figuring out what their tech looks like, but i want it to look very organic.

Sezia, Veiled lady

Another sketch WIP

Still have more aliens to draw, this one is for the Vreem. A diminutive species of alien only slightly larger than a mouse. They have an interesting symbiotic relationship with a species of plants collectively called the Tyreem. The plants are not sapient themselves, but they they are able to pass as intelligent very well, at least to the Vreem and have evolutionary co-opted vreem intelligence into cultivate themselves. Its an idea I'm still in the process of work-shopping but in the meantime I've been redesigning these guys

just another batch of sketches, i haven't worked traditionally in a while, so have a messy doodle

PD Tarot Series

3. The Drone

The Drone is a pure-type monster in the shape of a human. They are relics of a bygone era and those that persist past ancient times often have an existence lacking purpose. The Drone is the holder of forbidden ancient knowledge and the keeper of hidden agendas.

The Drone represents servitude, dedication and obfuscation of truths. Those who wield the Drone will find their livelihood in the control of others and their future chained heavily by past transgressions.

This one is a bit unconventional but I wanted to maintain the sort of dream-like, surrealness of regular tarot card.

Lovecraft Sundays!, The top is an elderkin, a highly advanced race of aliens who used to have city on mars and Venus. They can only be found in a mindless state in the deep dark oceans of Enceladus. As to how a group of beings as intelligence as the elderkin lost their minds is anyone’s guess. 

Below is an Udug a shifting mass of swirling patterns and body features. Looking at them would give you a headache. They protect, the ruins of mars, and are known for curiosity in humans, but mostly just their insides.