#space bugs

i really liked romulus so much that i drew more xenomorphs

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the best part about drawing them is i just make up the anatomy cus idk what they actually look like

"What happened?" "We lost primary systems." "One of our gun positions is dark. Ferrell, why aren't you firing? Ferrell, report." "Colonel, this is Lieutenant Ford. I'm near Ferrell's position. I'm on it!"

Some artwork from the Space Diddy's project mostly between 2019-2021. Portraits were made with multiple poses to be composited onto scenes like so:

Only the first 4 hours or so of footage were done this way due to project cancellation. The uncut sessions were uploaded last year though.

Some images to correct scale since Urogs are much bigger than everyone else and I also wanted to get an idea of the Hanakans that we played in the "Eye of Rahmel-Ta" short raptor adventure.

Hive fleet Panoptes consumes all who enter the jungle!

Cut off from the primary hivemind by unseen psionic blockers, a cluster of genestealers found themselves marooned on a massive jungle world. To survive among the hostile megafauna, they adapted camouflage. To thrive they integrated their genes with the local sapient reptilian life forms. To conquer, they could not call their fleet, but instead grew their own from the biomass of the planet.

Now Hivefleet Panoptes has set its many eyes on the skies. They must escape this psi-blocking atmosphere and rejoin the greater swarm.

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This display terrain was a mess to build. The foliage is now all over my apartment, and the little rippers were a real challenge for my printer. It was still fun, but I probably wouldn’t use these same techniques and materials in future projects.

Basing these bugs was also really cathartic. The rough jungle terrain gave me a lot of opportunities to get creative with the basing bits and diorama dirt. The resin swamp goo, saliva, and brain slime were frustrating when I just had a pen UV light, but getting a wall-plug light made it almost trivial and let me experiment more with mix-ins.

I know it's Orktober but, my youngest came to me with a plea, "DadIneedsomebugsformycampaigncanyouprintandpaintsomebugsbecausetheplayersneedtofightthegiantbugswarmsotheycanhelpthetreantsandfirbolgsandgettheairshiptoflytothepiratehavenwherethemageisbeingheldprisoner."