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Still progressing with my attempts to figure out what China Miéville's Bas-Lag xenians look like. This here's a vodyanoi, with a little watercræft duck he's absently sculpting.

Again, I've posted this in traditional because most of the work (both in terms of how it looks, and the time it took) was just pencil on paper. I did do a bit more photoshop work on this than on the khepri, but since I worked so much harder on the pencils, that was kinda inevitable.

The downside to this is that I kinda topped myself a bit on this one - I'm gonna have to redo the khepri to match this work level (not a bad thing tho, since I've just re-read Perdido Street Station, so I know there are a few inaccuracies with my khepri design that I have to fix anyway), and the rest of the races will have to be up to this standard as well, or I just won't be satisfied. Gotta push yourself tho, right?

ps - this originally started just as a face-study, which is why his elbow disappears off the page. I was also originally gonna dress him in the traditional vodyanoi loincloth, but I figure a lot of New Crobuzon vodyanoi wear clothes crafted to work in water or on land (for the sake of decorum), so I worked up a costume. The ribbing material used for his vest is intended to prevent it looking too clingy on land. Oh, and I suck at water!

Description
Still progressing with my attempts to figure out what China Miéville's Bas-Lag xenians look like. This here's a vodyanoi, with a little watercræft duck he's absently sculpting.

Again, I've posted this in traditional because most of the work (both in terms of how it looks, and the time it took) was just pencil on paper. I did do a bit more photoshop work on this than on the khepri, but since I worked so much harder on the pencils, that was kinda inevitable.

The downside to this is that I kinda topped myself a bit on this one - I'm gonna have to redo the khepri to match this work level (not a bad thing tho, since I've just re-read Perdido Street Station, so I know there are a few inaccuracies with my khepri design that I have to fix anyway), and the rest of the races will have to be up to this standard as well, or I just won't be satisfied. Gotta push yourself tho, right?

ps - this originally started just as a face-study, which is why his elbow disappears off the page. I was also originally gonna dress him in the traditional vodyanoi loincloth, but I figure a lot of New Crobuzon vodyanoi wear clothes crafted to work in water or on land (for the sake of decorum), so I worked up a costume. The ribbing material used for his vest is intended to prevent it looking too clingy on land. Oh, and I suck at water!