BONUS CONTENT: Sketchbook: Kaagan-Vas
Back to sketches!
Going forward, I’ll try to pair up Bonus Content sketches with the actual story page that’s posting that week. It won’t always fit exactly, and there is a bit of catch-up to do, but I think it’ll be better and less jarring than it has been to date.
Here we have some alien concepts for the flashback Kaagan-Vas. These scenes are always fun since I get to just come up with a bunch of new and different creatures, but it’s also a bit taxing creatively. When I’m in the groove, I feel like I can come up with some very cool designs, but when I’m not feeling it, it’s very hard to tap into that part of the brain that lets me come up with something new and different.
With this batch, I was feeling pretty under the gun and behind in schedule, so I didn’t get to put as much time into the concepting as I would have liked. But then I figure, for a short flashback sequence, I could probably get away with a little less development time since I’m not sure how much these particular characters will show up again.
The one in the upper right looks like he’s “special.” His dad got him a job with his uncle in the KV because it put his destructive love of fire to good use.
Lower left one for some reason makes me think candy maker or florist. I think the florist part comes from the tree-like lower body and root-like tendrils. Yeah, orchids and blasters… There you go, when the crew need some special weapon, like a silenced space howitzer, they go to a florist with a side-business.
I guess the KV do need side jobs, like candy maker or florist. You can’t burn and pillage ALL the time, after all.