I decided to color this really old piece of lineart, from like years ago. Might work on it a bit more in the future, or maybe not but either way, I'm done messing with it for now.
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.
Yet another species from my extra-firm sci-fi setting.
These are the Qoati an now-extinct species of sophonts who used to hold a rather large civilization across most of locale space, and were highly technologically advanced. Biologically they are colonial organisms, similar to siphonophores and are comprised of multiple smaller semi-independent organisms called zooids all of which are held together in a shell/skeleton made out of a material structurally similar to dried balsa wood. While the exact location of their homeworld is unknown, they did have a preference for high gravity terrestrial worlds.
Qoati drivers, are specialized zooid which have senses, such as eyes that help to navigate the colony, but they aren't the actual brains of the qoati. Those are instead a collection of worm-like zooids which act as the main cognitive group of the colony. In truth the Qoati sense of self is rather fluid, as while they do have a central brain, they also technically think with their entire body, and can share their zooids with other members of their species.
a little fan art lagi from panzer dragoon orta
The Battle of Neptune IV by Oliver Cuthbertson
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
Andria Appaloosa, Centaur Knight
More shading practice , this time a dragon rider. I haven’t drawn a dragon in quite some time.
Imsee Dancer
Imsee don't usually wear clothes most of the time, (its a hassle in the water) but when they do, its for the holidays. Dresses with long ribbons and bells are popular. Much like dolphins Imsee are adept at aquatic acrobatics and the bands and ribbons are designed to produce memorizing matters when twirled and spun.
Mix that in with some nifty anti-grav technology and you've got quite dazzling the display of dancers jumping from floating pools of waters.
Going to start designing some better clothes for my aliens.