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Enoi Queen

Iridyse — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:30:40 GMT

Enoi Queen

This was done for the DEEP challenge over at conceptart.org. The brief was to create characters in an underwater utopia civilization.

The Enoi are a highly evolved race of spiritual and peace loving beings that have formed a eusocial society deep in the underwater trenches of the planet En. The Queen-Mother rules the Enoi Kingdom and the Shaman-King acts as the royal consort. The Queen-Mother reproduces asexually by laying batches of eggs in her womb which are then infused with the life-force that binds all Enoi together, harnessed by the Shaman-King, in a sacred ritual. Enoi young are born hermaphrodites, revealed by the purple coloring of their life-force aura, and upon reaching adolescence, as they mature into a male or female, the color of their life-force changes accordingly to red or blue. Besides the color of their life-force there is very little physiological difference between the males and the females, except that the women have longer tendrils on their heads, and the males tend to be heavier set which can be seen best in the structure of the cranium.The spiritual development of the Enoi is parallel to the physical development and is marked by the opening of the second eye at adolescence.

Striga

Iridyse — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:12:22 GMT

Striga

A vampire

Cho

Iridyse — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:52:32 GMT

Cho

Just a quick fun image for a wonderful girl.

Qiane

Iridyse — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:45:16 GMT

Qiane

Goddess and Queen of Eithanas, Qiane is the personification of the false realm itself. Or maybe Eithanas is just an extension of her. Shifting between the living world and the afterlife, those who get into Eithanas may not get out, unless the Goddess wills them so.
The daughter of Rakhn,she inherited his power of weaver-magic. But while Rakhn prefered to weave his way into the fates of the living, Qiane wove her magic into creating her own world.Though, what her hands created, her sight destroyed. So she veiled her eyes, content to live in her own illusionary world and see through Valha and Mentit, her pet crows.

Close up of the face :

Close up of the hands :

Tainted

Iridyse — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:36:34 GMT

Tainted

(From Wikipedia) There is a story about the pierrot which relates how a small naked boy was found outside the gates of Heaven. It was winter, and as St Peter picked up the child and blessed him, the snow on his body turned into a suit of pure white clothing. St Peter adopted the child and gave him his own name - Little Peter or Pierrot - but there was one condition, Pierrot was not to be allowed to play with any of the human children he might come across as he wandered outside the gates of Paradise. Of course, this was almost impossible for a small boy, and on his return from just such a meeting he realised that his white suit now had black marks on it where the ordinary children had touched him. They proclaimed his guilt, and Pierrot was excluded from Paradise forevermore.
Here is my version of the Pierrot, derived from the story and from the pantomime image(the red mouth cut to make it larger,the make up, hair etc).
This is an image of a being which once was so pure, so immaculate, that its flesh seared where it was touched by others.And in touching it, they had contaminated it too.

Close up : http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/hiiri/facecloseup.jpg