My sister left me a couple of Copic markers when she moved out of the house, and I've been practicing with them since. I only have a couple drawings of some of the alien creatures I have come up with, the Stavs and the Wraith.
First, the Stavs.IMG_8568.jpg
APPEARANCE:
A snake/velociraptor/mole-type creature with a snake-like main body with sharply clawed hands and feet, beady eyes, and a hardened carapace on the top part of its body. Their mouths open like a blooming flower, allowing it to ensnare live prey much easier than other sapient life forms. They have two arms and two legs each, with fierce, unbreakable claws designed for digging at max efficiency. So much so that, until much later in their existence as a species, they have never developed excavation tools better than their own bodies.
BACKGROUND:
Their planet orbits closely around a dim but highly radioactive star. Due to the near uninhabitable living conditions on the surface of their planet, many creatures, including the Stav, chose to live underground, inhabiting a highly complex series of chasms and cave systems. Because of this, a common Stav moral system, means of governing, and shared technology are pretty much nonexistent. A Stav from one part of the planet is as alien to another as a human is to a Stav. Thus, when one of these factions learned the secrets of space travel, the majority of their people remained trapped on the planet unaware anyone left at all.
And now, the Wraith:IMG_8567.jpg
APPEARANCE:
They are, essentially, a billowing black cloud of consciousness. They have no set-in-stone appearance, but typically take the form of a humanoid alien with one white stripe running down their face. A Wraith typically inhabits old, broken down machinery and exosuit remains, but their gaseous body often leaks out from their bodies, fooling absolutely nobody in the process.
BACKGROUND:
Nobody knows where and how the Wraith came to be, but two theories have arisen. One theory states that they were designed as a weapon of war, as they have the ability to completely screw up exosuit and mech functions, something that seems oddly too specific for a creature out in the wild. The other states that they may have been developed as an alternate form of AI, something that can be salvaged and put into another medium of technology. Neither of these are altogether convincing, but its a start.
An observation of Wraith in the starship White Falcon, a former mining ship, seems to indicate that they have levels of emotion and complex thought, but due to their incorporeal bodies, they can't really do much in their predicament, resorting to trickery and manipulation to have their kicks.
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