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Some concept sketches of Gurlanins. The perfect predators and spies, I really like this species!

I think I should have made them look more alienish, but I'm not very good at that. I took inspiration from various real animals for their design: maned wolf for the body, bear for the mouth, bat for the nose and otter for the paws, whiskers and tail because I found an old forum post of Karen Traviss describing the Gurlanins as "carnivorous black-furred, long-legged otter-like creatures". I took a look at kangaroos too. For the rest, I used the descriptions provided in the RC books.

Initial concepts and rough sketches below the cut.