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Tattoos IN THE WILD

Posted on October 22, 2020 by Cal

throwing around a few more tattoo ideas. based off a bit of maori stuff. more or less. i imagine if these people were real they would tattoo themselves all over the place and try to show them off (like we
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Posted in BLOGTagged color, concept, daughter, design, family, father, maori, tattoo
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Tattoos: part 2

Posted on December 7, 2019 by Cal

Body markings mainly serve an out-of-universe purpose of helping the audience to more easily tell non-human characters apart, but also have justified reasons in the world. Tattoos are extremely common for Arkan characters and are basically coat of arms for
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Posted in BLOGTagged avato, culture, otigo, rene, tattoo, tattoos
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Character concepts 1 – Lain

Posted on June 9, 2018 by Cal

I’ll probably end up posting quite a few of the character concepts I do on the site. I think it’s interesting to show, honestly I enjoy inventing new characters and scenarios more than drawing old ones over and over. This
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Posted in BLOGTagged allano, ausrea, character, concept, concept art, crown, female, jewelry, jos, lain, outfit, sago, tattoo
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Malwan, facial recognition, and tattoos

Posted on July 12, 2017 by Cal

Hey all. just wanted to share a couple of things.      This is the character Malwan that was introduced a few pages ago. He is a city guard, and I imagine is in his late 30s or so. He just
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Posted in BLOGTagged alien, arka, bluefield, concept, design, face, guard, iguana, malwan, recognition, tattoo, tattoos
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