"The Bone Yards"

"The Bone Yards"

On various planets exist mass graveyards of towering bones belonging to great cosmic dragons that forged stars with their breathes of fire. Their decayed flesh now fill these graveyards with a toxic miasma that mutates the land and animals around it. Very few of these majestic eldritch beasts sour through the voids of space in the modern age with sightings of them being seen as nothing but tall tails from starship pilots wary from space travel.

The final member of the squad and arguably the most powerful, an angelic and ruthless warrior bound by an unshakable code of honor wielding a war hammer into battle carried by large wings like a Valkyrie.  

This is the latest and my personal favorite of my original character portraits. Trinity is an alien amphibian whose name is a reference to her three eyes however she can only see in her two main ones, the third however is the source of her telepathic powers and acts as the groups psychic. One of the main references for her design where salamanders and axolotls. Also her hair isn't really hair it is a dorsal frill that surrounds the head that mimics hair.

Commander Hayden Landos is Barix's commanding officer whose left arm is completely encrusted in diamond. Drawing humans or human looking characters have always been a challange for me but I believe this is a good attempt especially with the anime look I usually go with when drawing humans.

Crossfire is mechanical sharpshooter for his squad of soldiers who acts also as their weapons and explosives expert. When off duty he is a talented graffiti artist designing the cold blue flames on his body himself.

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The flame decals on him was an idea came up with when seeing an art professor of mine had sleeve tattoo's and I thought, "That'd be cool to see on a robot." and I went with blue flames as I feel they pop out more from his yellow armored plating than the standard orange and yellow flames did.

A very literal take on the rhinoceros beetle combining Hercules beetle and a black rhino. A fun drawing exercise I like to do is combine various animals together Avatar style to see what I get, some times I get something as cool and freaky as this and other times they come out not looking so great but its still something fun to occupy my time.