Over the centuries, some human populations have crash landed on the planet of Paxinovus and never got out. These populations adapted and evolved into what they are now. They don’t stray too far from the original human body since new crashed landed populations come around.
Homo sapiens ningues is found on the colder areas of the planet such as Tundrarkis, Jietian, and Fjordvan. They are slightly shorter than the average human and a lot stockier. They have more fat deposits to maintain warmth.
Homo sapiens umus is found on warmer, tropical areas and even some deserts such as Kananya, Onisona, Nahda Kingdom, and Tlanex-tli Empire. They are taller and lankier than the average human.
decided a while ago that Rausliers weren't quite working for me, so I've changed some stuff about their design to better suit my ideas for them, as well as making them easier to draw (for me lol).
hoping to make more posts on these guys soon, as well as my other aliens, buuut with my struggle to find employment i've been mostly focused on making ends meet as of late haha. if you'd like to see me draw stuff more often, consider leaving a tip if you have the means while I continue hunting for a job :)
A relatively cheap and common form of indoor lighting in Twowi households are slime lanterns; strains of bioluminescent microbes native to certain freshwater wetland environments. Centuries of cultivation have given rise to cultures that will glow brightly for many hours on relatively little feed (a mix of powdered pond scum and clay minerals). Many strains are unique to individual clans, and a clan’s reserve of ‘moonblood’ is regarded as a treasured family heirloom.
Care of slime lanterns is fairly simple: when light is needed, measure the needed ration of feed, mix it into the culture, and wait a few minutes. More feed will favor a brighter light over time as the microbes rapidly reproduce, but will ultimately dim as the original batch dies and clouds the water faster than their nutrients can be recycled. Good upkeep requires keeping the jar topped off with water and regular water changes.
In summer, when the light from the sun is almost constant and ship’s prism type indoor lights are more reliable, larger slime lanterns are emptied and a reserve of the mother culture is put into cold storage to save on feed.
This is an old post from my Patreon, decided to switch it to public and share here because it’s one of my favorite tidbits I’ve come up with in the last few years.
Hanasei have a wide range of body types, but on average they tend to be a bit wider with fat and skin folds. It is easier for a hanasei to gain weight above the average than it is for them to lose it.
Fatter hanasei often keep skin folds on top of body rolls due to fat increase. Skinnier hanasei will have looser, wider and saggier skin folds due to their lack of weight in expected areas. High muscular mass doesn't seem to affect the skin compared to other body types.
In hanasei culture, a large body type is seen as more attractive, whether it be muscle or fat. This is because the main activity in breeding season — also known as aether high seasons — is erotic fighting (or as erotic as a species who do not participate in sexual intercourse can be), and these two body types fit the standards for the two preferred types of fighters:
Oarue — a muscular fighter that focuses on sole strength and heavy blows — and the Alytó — a fat fighter that focuses on resistance and overwhelming the opponent.
Skinnier hanasei are associated with more underhanded tactics in the practice, being agility and evasion. Fights are meant to be matches of strength and stamina, not of "tactical prowess". Thus, the body type is seen as undesirable and ugly by most hanasei cultures. Though those who interact with tajira may call it a tajira-type body instead, associated with a desire to mingle and relate to the other sophonts.
The standard of fatter body types is very desirable to luminae, who prize fatness over anything else, and have a tendency to eroticize the hanasei body.
what are the beauty standards of your sophonts! (Also I love ur art and ur brain Ty for sharing ur pieces with the world)
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Let's start with land uniima.
With how very separated they are and how many traits are native to specific groups, it's hard to give a general answer, so here are the traits they focus on a lot in the beauty judgment.
other species and such under
Horns are quite obvious. They are imposing structures and size is consistently admired among land uniima as architects (the possible stage after adulthood) have bigger stature and larger horns and are attractive to most.
Architects are also the ones who build and commission unique "nests" that are meant to draw in interest. Most land adults either find large, strange architecture mesmerizing or straight up attractive.
Secondary traits that highly vary around the continent would be skin and fat distribution. The wattle on bigger uniis chin is an ethnic trait and is thought to be very beautiful in many places, even where the trait is a rare sight. Similarly, there are other skin features like bagginess on the neck and around the front lungs.
Proportions of body parts, facial shaping, colors, and such are either too personal or cultural to speak of.
Either way, lands definitely find strangeness and uniqueness pretty. You could say they don't fear the unknown as much as humans either, because of their size and strength.
Sky uniima
Similarly to lands, the cultures are rich and with strong seperate identities. There are also ethnic traits that other groups may not even be familiar with (as with lands).
But in contrast, sky unii care a lot more about sound and color (but still interested in proportional differences like beaks, crests, etc). Someone who's bright and rich in contrast is going to look at minimum very interesting in any place. Freckles, piebaldism, or other differentiators are a beautiful thing. And even more beautiful when combined with a loud, flexible voice.
A lot of places will be impressed by a large, interestingly shaped crest, but the same might be unappealing in the neighbouring culture (little rare, but it does happen).
Sky's can also find nests appealing, but it's generally less passionate.
Slomen
Bright feathers, also with good contrast. Popular or interesting facial and body marking patterns...
Male and female bodies are under very different expectations, and those differ a bit by region, as in some places women are actually larger than the men, and that is more desired. But then there are also the many types of men and women, and the beauty standards given to them in the family structure, one might even think of them as a gender of their own, constructed for different smaller roles.
The beauty a society sets up is often one of a large, high-ranking family, making their traits admirable by influence, something you don't really see in the other species.
These tighter "rules" may be applied to patterns, feather lengths, and such. Not very often, it's the classic attractive stuff, like a thick thigh. Though the set standard doesn't always align with what is seen as beautiful, at times, it will be just family politics.
Place holders
That's hard! Not so much into looking at others to ponder their looks. They do get inspired by other looks to decorate their own central body. It's less of a social show and much more of a self-care measure. The holders don't actually feel sexual attraction towards one another, so that type of concept of beauty is hard to understand for them.
But there is beauty in numbers. Admirable wasteness of a person and their reach. And the more spread a person is, the more interesting their way of speech and movement can be, it really is something to be jealous of. Sometimes it's so beautiful you just want to become one with the dance.
Uh, nothing for mole stars. I don't think they concern themselves much with bodies or standards of anything.
A collection of differently aged sloman chicks and an adult with a meg on his back, shown translucent to view the inside.
Here are sloman chicks.
When a sloman hatches by tearing and biting through the megg, it's either lightly or fully covered by fuzzy feathers with little color. They feed on "soup" from their mother's chest pouch with some help from the father, who, however, isn't always able to make more soup after baby hatches. More megg detail (some visuals slightly outdated).
Unlike mammals, slomen have a less refined feeding system, and the chicks have to puncture the pouch to get to the "soup". The holes are very small, much like the tips of the drinking teeth of the babies. The teeth aren't very visible in the image, but they form a triangle from the bottom jaw that directs flow into the mouth. They also help with breaking the megg, these chicks have no other teeth.
The younglings generally start walking on their feet no later than two months. This is when they are fully covered in fuzz and may start growing new teeth. Though that walking isn't exactly competent. Much like baby birds, they wobble around and fall at every step, especially if they try to run. Before their famous good-enough-walk they often crawl around on their ankles, with a few just ignoring that they have legs, instead dragging themselves by their arms everywhere (a behavior important to correct early).
Slims start getting their stripe-fluff latest by half a year. These feathers are more solid than the cottony covering and all show a unique stripe pattern. While they may walk just fine, they aren't yet good speakers, and even among their age, they use signs a lot more than speech. Complex words and signs come with a better understanding of concepts. Before any of that, they can't be trusted running in the fields without an older sibling.
It can sometimes take over a year before a running child can be trusted with running.
By this point, some children will also slowly gain new coloration that, in some cultures, will decide their gender early. This isn't always a good idea, with how long the coat takes to develop and how much assuming has to be made based on older siblings and parent colors. So most slomen until a certain age are not gendered.
The new colors always start higher on the body. So most often, the face is the first to become fully covered in "adult" feathers. But yes, this transition takes their whole childhood and only becomes faster at puberty, where other changes come.
When it comes to scent, the youngest chicks share a very similar scent that is recognized as the baby smell. Later, they develop their more personal one to be recognized by by their peers easily among the many.
It's only in puberty that a personal scent can tell someone which sex someone may be.
Until older, slomen also have much smaller scent glands on their face, which makes their faces a lot flatter than an adult's. The air space in the area also grows.
Finally, the guy who has been in the plans since July: Sigurd!
The post would probably be up yesterday if i didn't ponder his name for hours. I chose him to represent info pages about dwarves since he is a comrade of one of the main characters, the Knight.
I wanted to lean towards making dwarves slightly mole-like, considering that they have evolved to survive underground. They may be my favourite species in the project so far.
This critter has been sent to me by ROGUE THE OUTLANDER on discord! Highlighted in green is the image I received, the rest is my interpretation on different phenotypes of this guy. This time I didn't make a punnett square, but I only constructed genetics for this alien. I may or may not return to this one day. Next requests and stuff will be on my miscelanious art blog, I should really keep this one only for my project hah.
The dilution (dd) overrides the yellow expression of the green pigment (gg), so only green is expressed (Gg or GG). Because in low doses (gg) the green pigment appears yellow. In large doses (G) it appears green. Also, melanin and this green pigment mix, so the green pigment sort of "overlays" the melanin.
The pattern intensity can be affected by several genes: a gene that separates lines into dots, one that makes extra dots, and one that makes the pattern thicker or thinner. Here's a diagram of how the genes affect one another, still needs some polishing though:
Also, the recessive dilution gene (d) won't allow the recessive yellow (g) to express, it "switches it off". For every recessive dilution present in the genome (Dd or dd), a yellow gene is affected (Gg or gg). So when we have an individual that has the gene combination of ddGg, it would appear as one of the ones featured in one of the tables above - diluted melanin with bright green splotches. An individual with Ddgg would not have diluted colours, but since it is a carrier of the dilution (has one recessive form of the dilution gene) it overrides one of the recessive yellows, creating an alien with yellowish and brownish splotches.
I will eventualy get to one more request, but it will take me some time since the school is slowly starting. If you'd like to submit your creatures too, you can repost this with images of your critter and some info on their mating or genetics system, if you have one. But it's not guaranteed whether I'll even get to it! More info in this post. Bye!!
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