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A variety of Interstellara's inhabitants!

Because I'm practicing alien designs for background characters~

I'm actually liking the designs I'm making for different in-universe races for once. I can't choose a favorite out of this bunch cause they all look cute!

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"Happy Earth Day! Even though I'm technically in space... Hey, I can still care about nature!"

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Hello again, everyone! I know uploading has been scarce, my attentions have been turned to other things for a while. Solar 7 will still be a strong goal of mine!

Until then, take care and please be aware of how our home planet is changing! (Trust the science y'all)

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Happy New Year!!

I meant to upload this earlier, being a James Webb Telescope gag, I just completely forgot to put this up. Either way, I'm excited to go into 2023 and I'm planning on putting more time into Solar 7. I am happy to see the likes my stuff is getting and I'm hoping to give you more things coming into this year! Stay strong and tackle the year! - Ani

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Even if Earth, Neptune, and Pluto are all cadets of a interstellar organization that fights bad guys and solves problems with diplomacy... They still gotta do some schooling.

Especially Earth, he has to catch up with the whole universe.

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GAPU's Best Postal Worm!!

I always like the idea of how a Post Office in space would work. It would definitely be an undertaking to expand it all across the universe, so the GAPU would help take care of delivering post to the far reaches of space.

I don't have a solid name for this guy, but I call him Worm - since well... he kind of is one. Worm is the Post Master of the Alliance, working his tail off for his current position, always abiding by the 'service with a smile' mantra.

Though if something falls out of line, he panics and must repair the 'leak' in the situation.

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Venus and Saturn have a... toler-hate kind of relationship...

They've never really gotten along during their recruitment time in Solar 7. One is a peppy optimist with immaculate social skills and the other is a serious pessimist that would rather use her spear to get the point across. Even if they are at odds with each other on and off, Saturn and Venus are capable of putting aside their differences for the success of the mission. (And the sanity of their teammates)

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Rainy days just feel like this~

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Solar 7 aesthetics

So I just wanted to ramble a bit on how I plan to present the style of Solar 7's world. Just basic things like architecture, how spaceships look, and the overall sci-fi tone I want it to take.

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One thing everyone should know about me is that I have a strong love for the y2k aesthetic. No no, not the bug that was "supposedly" the end of the world at the turn of the century, but the styles and trends that came with it:

(I'd like to preface that these images are referenced from the y2kaestheticinstitute tumblr, please check their page out for more cool stuff and archived images!)

Anyways, moving along... (You don't have to read this all, but at least look at the pretty pictures and old art below 😊)

This sort of organic technology, new take on the retro 60's futuristic look is something I want to emulate in this webcomic. Something along the lines of bio-tech. While this sort of hints that space is industrialized, it never lost that sense of having an organic history - if that makes sense 🤔

I don't want to reuse the "cyberpunk" look as much as I can. This isn't a story about human a human introducing aliens to human society, it is a story about aliens introducing a human to their society. Heck, the human in this story doesn't have any "special" powers or "chosen one" story behind him, he's just a normal kid with the responsibility of the first Earthling to be integrated back into Interstellar society.

Either way, I want the Alliance (GAPU) to be as friendly looking as possible when it comes to their technology. Cause hey, they're an organization that's supposed to make peace with the universe. So I've been looking to Lilo & Stitch as inspiration.

While yes, technically these aliens will still be weaponized, it's mostly for the safety of others in Interstellara. Still, I want spaceships to have this look.

I think for the most part I'll try to avoid square buttons and make interaction with the ship more organic, they will still have a more streamlined and circular look to their shape.

Sorry I just wanna share how much I love Jumba's ship, it has such a cool design 😭 I'm going to have a difficult time not trying to make the Halley (Solar 7's ship) look like this.

But either way, if I am going to make a city in Solar 7, the cyberpunk aspect will probably more something akin to cities in Star Wars.

The more circular and round nature of the cities gives off that otherworldly feel to it that I absolutely adore. But not to say that every planet will be industrialized like this. The GAPU also visits worlds that are even more primitive than the planet Earth sometimes. It's just that because of the GAPU's influence on Interstellara that most of alien society has progressed beyond the technology of Earthlings.

All this, I want to try and put into Solar 7 in a more simplified style. I'm going to attempt to get better at technical design, my strong suit has always been characters, but I also love this type of architecture and aesthetic that I want to be able to draw stuff like this. Slowly but surely I am learning a few techniques too.

--- I'll end the ramble here for now, but before I go I'll share some old and new drawings I've made for Solar 7 thus far.

Thanks for reading :)