Alien Art

A place for only my art. World building and (monster) character design.

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Art Blog Introduction - Nickalart

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I'm Nickala and I'm a 100% human artist from the United States living in Germany. I've lived in five states and moved well over 10 times. I'm some sort of agender, but I use any pronouns, especially when a certain set would be funny.

Posts might pick back up soon, but German is a hard language to learn. I'm primarily a hobbyist, but I also occasionally open for commissions. I mostly post character design and worldbuilding here, with the characters very rarely being human. I like making high fantasy or science fiction worlds, conlangs, and speculative biology-based creatures. I'm currently working on a personal project world that has a blend of science fiction technology and magic called Lux Arcana that I'd like to be the backdrop for an anthology.

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Working on redesigning my favorite bug alien girl, neutral face edition. I might work on different expressions over this as part of trying to keep her expressive even without a mouth that is normally visible without intense expressions.

I'm thinking about making a flip-up lip design on the bottom as a threat display, but making it look good & plausible is somewhat challenging. Most of her mouthparts are located underneath, her head is kinda tucked up to her neck.

Also: Bonus I-Remembered-I-Can-Animate-A-Little blinking loop.

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Considering a big redesign for Ocha's general head/neck/face shape. I think this could work, but I might also be giving her pseudopupils like a mantis. I was originally modeling the eyes after jumping spiders, but then I realized they'd be all black most likely.

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Happy Valentine's Day!

Me and Tuz got married a year ago, so I shall be spending today with my beloved. We may or may not smooch, who knows.

I might just knock off some of the art block rust with more silly and/or unhinged drawings. This one certainly helped. :D

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I am now making maps. Maps are fun.

This is Chithae, the home planet of the chitun (Ocha's species). Eventually I'll have a political map (or a few from different years) but for now please enjoy the pre-corruption era view with the pretty purple plants.

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Come and fite me.

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I'm in a Soulbound one-shot (2-3 sessions) and I drew my character. Meet Neps, a very murderous Sylvaneth. He became Soulbound because he gets to travel (to kill things, such as the ones that fucked up his forest).

A few of the other players play Age of Sigmar regularly. They haven't clocked that he's a Spite Revenant because he's off-model.

Anyway, at some point when I have a few less irons in the fire, I'd love to get more into AoS. Sylvaneth are not only aesthetically very pleasing to me, but have high maneuverability which is my favorite in strategy and/or fighting games.

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This meme from Laproxie on Twitter looked like fun (and it was), so I gave it a whirl. I might have gone a little overboard. :)

Ocha did not get additional supernatural abilities from the possession - she can just do all of that. The only thing she got from the possession was malicious intent.

I realized two things from this meme: A) Ocha's deepest fear is being controlled against her will to hurt or kill people. B) Ghostly possession would be 100% possible in my setting because souls sometimes linger in the world of the living. It'd be a shame if I did anything with that in canon.

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More stuff for Ocha's VGen page.

I wanted to give her a nice character portrait in front of all the static refs.

Soon I might be getting comms through VGen... as soon as I have disposable income again haha.

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A quick icon I did for Ocha's VGen page.

I have a separate character concept to put all the spicy stuff under. :)

So far it's not her naked and up to things, just naked.

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So I've been drawing again.

I've also been doomscrolling a bit, I should probably stop that.

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Because I can, we're doing progress videos from ArtFight this year.

This is @micahseacoleart's Nameless being creepy in the shadows. If you want to check out the still image:

I did this one mostly on one layer until I got to the background and painted with the eraser and brush tool with only one color.

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I'm doing ArtFight again this year. And look! I even did a card this time!

Maybe one day my persona will have a ref...

Come and get me.

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I drew all the NPCs that are relevant to Ocha to scale because I’m a little bit extra.  Here are the two most important (living) NPCs and also the two biggest.

Bonus cute sketch I did a while ago of a much younger Ocha and her proxy grandpa.  Also the individual refs, Ocha (who was still going by Shalia when she looked like that) got a fancier one on account of her being the player character.

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Here are the rest of the NPCs I designed and drew for Ocha's backstory/family.

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btw it wont be the first or last time i say it but sheezy.art is cool.

if youre an artist and youve been looking for somewhere to actually make friends/form an art community rather than just sadly refreshing your feed for likes/rbs i would recommend sheezy.art!

it's in beta rn and theres a timer that lets 10 people register every few hours, but theres also a kofi you can support thatll just let you register right away

the website's staff and multiple friends were the ones who brought the site to my attention (thank you lemmy), and every who ive met/talked to there has been super active and sweet ^_^ ik social media can be kind of daunting if you do art for fun so now its my turn to push you guys towards the site

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also - i am fourleaf on there! i know my page is pretty simple, but the user profiles are extremely customizable... AND if you need to turn them off for readability/flashing, you can disable themes on any persons page!

i know a lot of people online like to use sort of like... eye-strainy colors or gifs, and while the site absolutely allows you to do that, it also gives the option to disable those things to people who may be sensitive to that

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I'm on there.

I like it a lot! There's customization but there's also a robust, standardized system for tagging potentially triggering/harmful content.

You can also post more than just still images. I've uploaded some music myself, but I've also seen videos, gifs, and other formats.

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Surprise! I Make Music, Too:

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Another collection of college pieces, but this time in colorvision.

Media used include: colored pencil, PaintTool SAI, acrylic, chalk pastel, and marker