#Alien Character

[polturn]

sketchdump time again

[corysarchive]

Flic! She seems like she'd be a good mechanic or some sort of technological task.

[natansiik]

Monstera monster boy

[p3stie]

OC portraits. First is Morg "Longevity", Second is Morrisil "Warm Smiles".

I think this is my first post about these two and the project they're a part of, so I'll give a quick run down of the basic info for those interested;

Morg and Smiles (both she/her) are both part of a little sci-fi project of mine called Steel Current. I've already done lots of world building and concept art for the project, but im just shy about posting it because oc stuff is rarely well received on most social media.. but tumblr is nice.. be nice to them please tumblr.

[maudiemoods]

I've been trying to make a new persona for two day and I think I'm going to go crazy

Pink is a must btw

[mistym3adows]

It’s been a while so have an art dump with my Ocs and Mikey and the Disaster Twins are here too.

sorry I haven’t been posting lately on any platforms, I’ve been busy with school and also working on improving my art to a place that makes me happier so I have been doing mostly self indulgent stuff and drawing old oc’s and I didn’t think anyone would pay much attention to it if I posted them but I love these guys and wanted to share them. Also I was overdue for a TikTok art dump I love the disaster twins. If anyone has any questions about any of my ocs don’t be afraid to ask. Thanks for sticking around 🙃

[jacqueline314]

Unofficial Quotes

C-K: Chibipie Kagane's OC Leilana: @thisbelongsto-nohbodys' OC

[milkcioccolato]

Star Wars ocs? On MY page? It’s more likely than you think😌

[vvileentityart]

GubGub

Finally got around to making a Smiling Critter OC.

[hungry-skeleton]

Silly gnarp gnarp

Reblogs > Likes

This character has been purchased!

[suppotato123]

So, I’ve noticed that when we design an alien species that’s supposed to be sapient we tend to make them look like us, and I don’t mean in the typical “why in the world does this people on an entirely different planet of a completely different species with its own unique evolutionary history have a very primate/human-like body plan???” Kind of way. I’ve noticed that even when we make sapient species that look nothing like us and have a completely different body plan, we still give them the same or similar facial expressions and body language to ourselves. I find this really interesting because facial expressions are not across the board for all species (or all humans for that matter). Take, for example, the smile, a common friendly greeting among humans that communicates happiness, contentment, humor, and a lack of hostility, etc. However, for most animals, bearing teeth is a sign of unease or even open hostility. Its a threat that, “I have teeth and I’m willing to use them to protect myself!” Or take cats who, to the human eye, look relatively apathetic or sometimes even slightly annoyed when they are actually completely content. As I mentioned before, even human expression is more complicated than a set of particular facial expressions that only communicate one type of emotion.

Take a good look at this picture. What Emotion is this woman feeling?

Did you say pain? Loss? Anger?

If you did you’d be incorrect.

This is a picture of Sofia Kenin after winning a point in the first round of a Women’s singles match.

With the full context, it’s clear that she’s feeling elation, or excitement.

This is in no way meant to criticize artists for making their characters with distinctly human expressions. I understand that, especially in visual media, these sorts of expressions are really important to communicating the character’s inner world with the audience. I just find it super fascinating, and I think that it says something about us as a species that we look for and insert bits of ourselves in everything around us. So, yeah. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

[corelle-vairel]

Finished reference for Gnarp ☺️

[corysarchive]

Frei! She looks like she'd try to eat a sofa.

[mecharex2]

A beastie?!

[pashdrawing]

ROBONT!!!!

[magickpancakes]

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