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Look what I found buried in my digital archives.

That's a small piece for a project I stepped into a couple of years ago, but it happened right after I had started a new job and so I discontinued my participation, even if it was an interesting theme, as I was still adapting to a new job and couldn't quite get my mind around a side project as well. Or well, perhaps the actual reason was that I so much dislike to be told how to draw, and this lead artist (who wasn't really an artist) was a tiiiiny bit too pushy for my taste to stay around. I tell you what, if I don't enjoy my drawing work for somebody, it simply doesn't work. That's why I cannot be a professional artist actually.
But anyway, the project was for a tabletop card game in a sci-fi genre, if I remember correctly, it was sort of a cosmic war between 4 fundamentally different races, each of whom would incorporate a set of its own unique mechanics. The designer of the whole thing was a friend of mine and Hell, he had awesome ideas. So, I've pretty much forgotten what the other races were about (think one was basically the grey aliens.... sorta), but the one I remember about was a race of sentient plants who could manipulate their genome and like this evolve different forms and mechanisms as their living substitute of conventional technology - which is such an AWESOME concept. Needless to say I joined as an artist-to-be (and visual designer) for this particular race. Sadly, I didn't really continue.... perhaps if it were to happen now, I would have, but eh, that was 2 years ago.

So this little thingie is the picture for a card. Basically it's a gigantic tree which could grow up so tall that it would expand its crown above the atmosphere - and yes, I am very well aware of the problems with that, being a botanist myself, but hey, it's a game. The thing is, my friend's concept of the game included one unit card for each race which would be an orbital station - so that giant tree was the plants' substitute for that, and I find it a very nice idea actually. So yeah, basically it's how they colonize a planet and also how they spawn some units into orbit - so that's what these huge pods are for, and the seeds that seem to come from out of them are actually a living plant starship-equivalents. I dunno, I personally loved the concepts into this race. Sadly I didn't get to really work much on them. After this first card (which was sort of proof-of-concept for me as an artist for the species) I did start working on another but.... never even got to finish it. But anyway. It was long ago, but I still kinda like this one. Figured I could finally share it.

Done in Ps CS6 with Wacom Intuos4.
Original size 750 x 750 px.

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Description
Look what I found buried in my digital archives.

That's a small piece for a project I stepped into a couple of years ago, but it happened right after I had started a new job and so I discontinued my participation, even if it was an interesting theme, as I was still adapting to a new job and couldn't quite get my mind around a side project as well. Or well, perhaps the actual reason was that I so much dislike to be told how to draw, and this lead artist (who wasn't really an artist) was a tiiiiny bit too pushy for my taste to stay around. I tell you what, if I don't enjoy my drawing work for somebody, it simply doesn't work. That's why I cannot be a professional artist actually.
But anyway, the project was for a tabletop card game in a sci-fi genre, if I remember correctly, it was sort of a cosmic war between 4 fundamentally different races, each of whom would incorporate a set of its own unique mechanics. The designer of the whole thing was a friend of mine and Hell, he had awesome ideas. So, I've pretty much forgotten what the other races were about (think one was basically the grey aliens.... sorta), but the one I remember about was a race of sentient plants who could manipulate their genome and like this evolve different forms and mechanisms as their living substitute of conventional technology - which is such an AWESOME concept. Needless to say I joined as an artist-to-be (and visual designer) for this particular race. Sadly, I didn't really continue.... perhaps if it were to happen now, I would have, but eh, that was 2 years ago.

So this little thingie is the picture for a card. Basically it's a gigantic tree which could grow up so tall that it would expand its crown above the atmosphere - and yes, I am very well aware of the problems with that, being a botanist myself, but hey, it's a game. The thing is, my friend's concept of the game included one unit card for each race which would be an orbital station - so that giant tree was the plants' substitute for that, and I find it a very nice idea actually. So yeah, basically it's how they colonize a planet and also how they spawn some units into orbit - so that's what these huge pods are for, and the seeds that seem to come from out of them are actually a living plant starship-equivalents. I dunno, I personally loved the concepts into this race. Sadly I didn't get to really work much on them. After this first card (which was sort of proof-of-concept for me as an artist for the species) I did start working on another but.... never even got to finish it. But anyway. It was long ago, but I still kinda like this one. Figured I could finally share it.

Done in Ps CS6 with Wacom Intuos4.
Original size 750 x 750 px.

Featured:
Nov. Feature