#praying mantis oc

[am00eba]

My Sprout Fight drawing for this year!! (Using the prompt "flower crown" and taking inspiration from the color palette "may flowers", given by @artfight )

[jadynrosetta]

My boredom at work made this. My alien from a few years ago…

My eyes hurt.

[neon-bug]

Who hurt heem, was is you?

[jadynrosetta]

Creation of Eon + Species

This is an in depth look at my OC Eon from my sci fi story (title pending).  Before I get into Eon and his character and design choices, I want to talk about the species.  I love creating alien species cause you can pretty much do whatever you want and it can work. 

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Eon is a part of a race called “Venni”.  Venni’s are bug like creatures that can be found in jungle areas on random planets.  They are very uncommon and hard to run into.  They tend to stay in remote areas and rarely communicate with anyone outside their species.

Venni’s are based off of praying mantis (note the wings and body shapes).  Males are built slim and are smaller than the females.  They also have longer antennaes then the females, however both use their antennae to check for wounds and also to check health.  Males also have wings and fly around.  Both sex’s have wire like hair that is worn in different styles and fashion.  Venni’s also have little wing like appendages below their ears, coming in a variety of colors.  They don’t really serve a purpose.

Other things that I didn’t add on this sheet was that they have pincers inside of their mouths, usually used for food.  They hiss when startled or angered.  Also their wire like hair sometimes reacts to their emotions (Example: Anger causes it to raise slightly).

Though they appear weak, Venni’s are amongst the strongest species in the universe.  Being able to life nearly ten times it’s weight.  They also can physically take on species much larger than them.  Adult Venni’s can reach up to almost 8′.  However they tend to shy away from fighting and like to stay hidden from danger.

Vennis live under the rule of one leader.  Usually the leaders are females due to them being bigger and, in most cases, stronger than the males.  Most live under a pacifest law and do not engage battle, usually they leave whenever war comes near them, this does not apply to all.  They also live more off the land, believing that the ground they live on is a living creature that they take care of in return for giving them shelter.  Though they do not communicate outside their species often, they are usually very warm and welcoming, as long as you do not disobey their laws and respect their leader.

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Eon is a young Venni who meets the main team on a prison ship.  From just looking at him the crew could tell he has been there for almost his entire life, and does not know where he’s from or who his biological family is.  He grew to see his fellow inmates as his family and would often take care of them.  From a young age he had an interest in caring for others and would do his best to patch up wounds that his found family had.

Eon is extremly shy and has severe trust issues.  He also dislikes violence and reckless behaviour, which sucks for him since he’s the medic of a team of reckless pilots.  His body is extremely thin and malnourished, making him slightly weaker than others of his species.  He is disgusted by his body and hides it with very large, baggy clothes.  He has large scars on his back where they removed his wings while experimenting on him.  Also a large scar on his head he gives himself later in the story.

Eon stayed with the crew after they dropped off the other prisoners on a remote planet away from the war and asked to be their doctor.  Due to having very limited knowledge he tried to learn as much as he could while taking care of the team, his new found family.  

Eon’s design was based off of praying mantis and UB-02 Beauty a.k.a Pheromosa.  I wanted something that if it was real and it came into contact with humans, humans would be very afraid of seeing it.

Making him a medic also helped with the design, giving him antennaes which helps with finding wounds and checking temp.  I usually don’t draw the antennaes when sketching him so I can at least see what I’m doing, then add them on last.  They tend to get in the way.  The wings below their ears was something I added for aesthetic purpose and I liked them so they stayed.

His act 1 design has a large crystal on his forehead which was another experiment, but he tore it out of his head himself and patched it up, now it’s a large scar that he covers with a crown.  Also the dress was something he found on the ship the crew lives on.

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I will hopefully do more of these for my alien species + OCs.  They’re a lot of fun to do and I love going into detail about their designs and their differences both bioligically and culturally.  I’ll probably work on these more while typing the story, as well as my pokemon project... who knows.