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2016 art, another alien citizen of another alien planet.
This is when I really started to expand upon the "Starfarers", a race of vaguely bovine/antelope-like aliens with a penchant for drifting through space until they find a world to colonize and call their own. The race was first introduced through Tara, although initially I didn't plan on making her kind so integral to events within my galaxy, or even that she was part of some great nomadic colonist race.
While Tara and her people inhabit the moon of a gas giant, Hemera here is an inhabitant of a world known as Summanus, best described as "Venus Lite". Hot, arid planet with a thick atmosphere, not much in the way of life, only habitable thanks to Starfarer technology and technique. How Hemera's people arrived here, and why they decided to stay, is a secret mostly lost to time, but this is the world they now call home.
To keep cool enough to be habitable, the walls of their buildings tend to be very thick, and many of the buildings are actually carved from natural rock formations. Their civilization is mostly powered by the reactor cores taken from their long-since-dismantled interstellar cruiser, many parts of which found their way into the structures of their initial settlements. The hot, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere proved quite to the liking of some of their plant specimens, while some of their fungal samples also thrived in this new environment, and through that they began the long, arduous process of terraforming the planet. While still extremely hot, and actually very dangerous to be outside of their subterranean cities for too long during most of the day, they've managed to make the planet at least somewhat habitable, and live comfortably within their cavernous dwellings, unbothered by much external interference from other space-faring factions.
During the somewhat cooler mornings, though, it's safe to leave the dwellings to scout for new areas to expand to, or just take in the scenery, like Hemera here seems to be doing, standing just within the doorway to a balcony.
As for why Tara and Hemera look so different... Starfarers are highly adaptable, reproduce quickly, and evolve to suit their new environments rapidly--evolution has changed them to suit their new home worlds, hence the different coloration, physique, and so on.
Later art of Hemera has her a bit less lanky, and looking back, I don't like how her fingers look in this one, but overall I do still like this art quite a bit. I have also reworked her outfit a bit since this was posted back in 2016, and given a lot more thought to the civilization she is part of in that time as well.
This is when I really started to expand upon the "Starfarers", a race of vaguely bovine/antelope-like aliens with a penchant for drifting through space until they find a world to colonize and call their own. The race was first introduced through Tara, although initially I didn't plan on making her kind so integral to events within my galaxy, or even that she was part of some great nomadic colonist race.
While Tara and her people inhabit the moon of a gas giant, Hemera here is an inhabitant of a world known as Summanus, best described as "Venus Lite". Hot, arid planet with a thick atmosphere, not much in the way of life, only habitable thanks to Starfarer technology and technique. How Hemera's people arrived here, and why they decided to stay, is a secret mostly lost to time, but this is the world they now call home.
To keep cool enough to be habitable, the walls of their buildings tend to be very thick, and many of the buildings are actually carved from natural rock formations. Their civilization is mostly powered by the reactor cores taken from their long-since-dismantled interstellar cruiser, many parts of which found their way into the structures of their initial settlements. The hot, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere proved quite to the liking of some of their plant specimens, while some of their fungal samples also thrived in this new environment, and through that they began the long, arduous process of terraforming the planet. While still extremely hot, and actually very dangerous to be outside of their subterranean cities for too long during most of the day, they've managed to make the planet at least somewhat habitable, and live comfortably within their cavernous dwellings, unbothered by much external interference from other space-faring factions.
During the somewhat cooler mornings, though, it's safe to leave the dwellings to scout for new areas to expand to, or just take in the scenery, like Hemera here seems to be doing, standing just within the doorway to a balcony.
As for why Tara and Hemera look so different... Starfarers are highly adaptable, reproduce quickly, and evolve to suit their new environments rapidly--evolution has changed them to suit their new home worlds, hence the different coloration, physique, and so on.
Later art of Hemera has her a bit less lanky, and looking back, I don't like how her fingers look in this one, but overall I do still like this art quite a bit. I have also reworked her outfit a bit since this was posted back in 2016, and given a lot more thought to the civilization she is part of in that time as well.
Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Bovine (Other)
Size 650 x 1000px
File Size 1.27 MB
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