Art challenge!

[pyraxis]

The Spacerobots are starting an art challenge to draw something every day in the month of April. I decided to give it a try too. I really need to venture outside of the frantic motion of our move north and ground myself again in what I love to do.

I've been drawing nethik in the few moments I could grab between chores. Experimenting with their physiology. I'm not really happy with the earlier experiments. I've been capturing too much of the reference and not enough of the essence of what makes them nethik. I put an earlier one under the cut at the bottom of the post if anyone's curious, but here's one so far that I like.

Have a drawing inspired by jumping through too many bureaucratic hoops in order to be here in our new home.






P.S. Here is the Spacerobots' first picture too.

Comments

[spacerobotcrew]

Yay! :D Those are very cool!

-47

[spacerobotcrew]

That's awesome, nethik fashion!!

The first one totally looks like they want to headbutt someone. XD

-Jim

[silk_dragon_zen]

Lovely. I don't even know what a nethik is, but it looks so very life-like in your rendition.

Btw, here is the direct link to 47's first drawing:

http://spacerobotcrew.tumblr.com/post/115258952681/im-doing-an-art-challenge-i-will-be-posting-here

[pyraxis]

Oh I got the link wrong? Ok, fixed it now.

The nethik are one of the races on Karn, our world. They're shapeshifters between nok (human) form and nethik form. Because they're herd beings and two of the other races are carnivores, they have a difficult time of it. They're hunted, enslaved when they're not eaten, and they've developed an entire secret culture and language-within-language to survive amongst hostility. They're brilliant at hiding in plain sight. Nobody notices the nethik. And nobody realizes the hidden meanings in their words when they give their creepy calm obedience to orders.

[silk_dragon_zen]

Awesome! I can't wait to see more art about them and the other beings on Karn. ♡