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Arrach-Ray: doodles

I need some rest...

Lately I've been thinking about what I want to see out of the world, and how it will interact with people, and quite frankly I'm not sure which idea to pursue. Main issue that the project has, I think, it's characters, or better to say, the lack of them. Therefore there are no connection, no...

Arrach-Ray: insides

Well, officially burned out. 

Starting reboot... Initializing artwork... Leveling level of satisfaction... Finishing the piece... 

Back in action.

Literally, I've started this one out of despair (due to work stuff), and now as I've finished it I've recovered my mental stability. 

Well, it wasn't here before...

Recently I've been thinking about space parasites, and here's what came on my mind.

Some gross mass that likes Acmirazidium and other metals/synthetic materials. Sort of much unwanted plague for Arrach-Ray (less for Ksedases, because they're pretty far from Raachmaray's moons, where these things originate).

It's p...

High noon

Possible look of calm noon on Raachmaray.

I'm really fond of these quick illustrations and was wondering if you want to see something particular drawn? Like, any planet, race or situation? I would love to experiment and practice more with these~

Ksedas and Arrach-Ray: awkward time

Well, this is something that you won't see that often.

Curious fact about Ksedases

You all probably have noticed Ksedases' unusual shoulder structure on the previous works, and here is the answer to purpose behind it.

As Acmirazidium is a relatively heavy metal, Ksedases designed their suits to be both practical and, at the same time, easy to operate, that's why when they aren't performing any specifi...

Raachmaray's surface

I've started this one as a pose exploration, yet somehow it turned into a sketch illustration... oh welp, I definitely don't mind, hope you too~

So back to: this is more or less how sunsets and sunrises looks like on Raachmaray, Arrach-Ray's home planet. And as you can see, this Arrach-Ray already been implemented with ...

Arrach-Ray: Ksedases' edition

And here it is, the first updated suits for Arrach-Ray after four years of silence.

Still just a rough ideas, yet I definitely love how their "old" headpieces looks with a new bodies. I do like their original shells, yet for a sake of story they have to move on (so am I, huh)

Their tshetres, aka hearts, are still ...

A new body for a new Age

Hopefully tomorrow I'll finish this page~

It's a second idea of a suit for Arrach-Ray, the first one was quite a while ago:

Ksedases: legs

As ksedases are shapeless (mostly) without armor, their suits are made to mimic other organic beings. 

First, it's the only comfortable way for them to travel the cosmos and to interact with the other races and objects. Second, those suits were improved many times, and consists of many different species that ksedas...

Arrach-Ray: joints and bones

Changes have been made to the Arrach-Ray's genome. Cruel, cruel changes... With each new generation their bones and joints were randomly multiplying. No one knew, how to reverse this plague. Once sacred, now desecrated, the Cradle became their doom. One might thought. Yet there came a salvation. A foreign idea, to use Acmiraz...

Ksedases: introduction

The time has come, and here they are~

Ksedases, without their metal suits (which are made of Acmirazidium by the way), are a jelly-like beings, that live(d) on Kassad - planet at outskirts of the Arnainskiy Cross (Digela's Arm)

They weren't the reason of a mass destruction, yet they are the first ones who stepped ...

Arrach-Ray: spaceships

Good news! I've managed to dig out some info on Arrach-Ray and their planet, and name of Raachmaray's core's metal is Acmirazidium - I clearly made an unintentional mistake in the past old post, so I'll update it as well. 

And here are some late night spaceships. Nothing that fancy, yet I do love to draw them. One ...

Arrach-Ray: sketches

Treating myself after yet another power outage (commissions are intact, yet my nerves are not)

Also, while I was digging through sketchbooks with Ksedases, I found that there was another type of technology, marked as SAR, - meaning combined technology of sivalaary and Arrach-Ray. 

And yep, two years have pass...

Granderon: old sketches

I'm still alive! Well, barely, with bloody red eyes and frustrated that I've lost progress on two commissions during this week because of a sudden power outs.

I definitely need one of those batteries for my PC... life with a laptop was much easier in that way.

Nevertheless, here are some old sketches of...

Sitan: a new life for trains?

So I was sketching as usual, and then I remembered about spacetrains.

In the past they did a little, just carried people and goods from afar. Yet what if they were mining resources as well? On their own, I mean (pilots and staff are still included). As they are a hybrid technology, that has more or less one job, it can ...

Sitan: Matrix city sketches

And finished~

I really like the first two sketches. The third one was an idea of how frame threads can fixate themselves under the ground. And the fourth was of landing/burying itself down (looks kinda messy, yet it supposed to "wiggle" its bottom part into the surface, cracking it and making all comfy).

Sitan: Matrix city

Upcoming page~

And there are only six pages left in this sketchbook! I'm so excited being so close to the finish after 4 years of constant returning to it (I took my dear sweet time with this one, yup)

Also, I was thinking about making a video review with my comments after, yet I'm still deciding if I want to be...

Sitan: sketches

Just want to rest from the screen for a bit~

And, I guess, there's some progress on landscapes we have here (partly, huh).

I do love how antaritan formation looks like on the third sketch, and on the fourth I thought about metal extraction. What if matrix cities were landed on top of it, and then released machin...

Tall grass and mountains

Today I've finally finished my work and got some time for this piece~

I think mountains give more depth to the scene, don't they?

P.S.: or not... now I'm confused and still tired, what do you think, should I remove them or let them be?

Tall grass: flat colors

Still in progress, I just love the colors. 

And while I was coloring it I thought about Sitan, oasis or life before explosions on the Asnatar and Savaradan (binary star of the system).

And yep, that's a really tall grass, because average height of an adult sivalaary is around 290 cm (plus or minus 20 cm).

Tall grass

When people ask me about inspiration, I always say that it should come from within you. All things around should be just a tools to help you express what you are feeling, your wishes and desires, your inner self. There is no need to spent tons of time watching others' stuff, it's curious, indeed, yet it's destructive after a ...

Sitan: sketches

Here are some of today's ideas. Painting on this type of paper stinks... RIP my lovely b/w sketches.

Guys, and I'll be a bit preoccupied within this week, mostly because of another work, and boy, I wish I could tell you for whom and what I'll be doing it for.

Oh welp, another time then... Still I will try...

Antaritan formations v.2

And finished~

Still exploring possible forms, and hmm, what if Antaritan is not a natural metal? That can explain why it can be found only on Sitan, and why these formations looks like fallen meteorites, except that they are pretty much intact.

Or they just formed deep within the ground and only now coming up on s...