#I wanna do more w this setting eventually bc it’s super fun doing non-fantasy worldbuilding!! | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

lorebird · 1 year ago

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I sunk 24 hours of rendering into this piece so MAY AS WELL POST IT

I had to design and illustrate an underground city for my concept art class, and decided to go with subterranean aliens building a vertical metropolis! I’m very inexperienced and no real good with xenobiology, so they ended up like walmart brand bug ferrets….. but I’m definitely happy with the style of architecture!!

#my art #alien #alien city #xenobiology #kinda slightly maybe #they’re called the tunaaw and they live on a tidally locked planet #they have Big Ol Anteater Claws to dig for yummy treats #the little human is from a crashed human expedition: they were an infant and the only survivor #their name is Nayuk and their adoptive parent (the tunaaw holding their hand) is named Lahit and I love them both dearly #I also had to design a numerical system for a different class and decided to incorporate it for the tunaaw!!#it’s base 12 bc they have 6 digits #you can see some of the symbols as the bright turquoise markings above each gateway #(though they don’t actually have meaning here I just chose the symbols that looked best)#I wanna do more w this setting eventually bc it’s super fun doing non-fantasy worldbuilding!!

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