I still can't use it, heh. And I sketch with mouse. Pain.

Looks good! The only qualm I have is with the location of the worm, which you already noticed. I think its supposed to be sternal, which (I believe) would place it either just above or between the breasts, perhaps poking out of the pre-existing hole in the fabric.

Yup, it would be.

What's the path tool?

Also, your drawings are quite amazing. <3 the Tau pose.

It looks like an ink pen drawing a curve. It's in the second row. The second tool.

Shading added, Eye finished. Inner Worm fixed and colored. I'll be working on the backdrop next, though I'm really not certain what to do about it.

I'm pretty much done. I may add a forest-like background but I really like it as-is.

Crikey, she's a Krokani?

She is a one-eyed woman with no mouth. Aside from the one eye... she is the perfect woman!

Uh... I always pictured the Illithoid race to be a bit.... less human. Skin coloring aside...

Also, I've always thought that the inner worm is a bit more like a tapeworm, in that it lives inside you and feeds off of you but doesn't have any access to poke out and say "Hi!"

I always just imagined it like a "mouth" on the chest or something.

Though I don't have access to it at this very moment, ILLSHIFT is an emote hardcoded in which the worm extends outward in search of energy before seeking back in. (When targeted).

This is just how I see the Inner Worm looking.. Tainted by my Stargate fanatic-ness which I tried to push away as much as possible during the editing.

Tau is Somaria's daughter, who has always had a very human appearance, and in her desc, it implies the same.

If it weren't based off a specific person and was supposed to look like what the average illithoid should look like, I'd agree.

But it's Tau. Tau's genetic history involves a myriad of different races and her description is sort of humany/elfy.

She's also incredibly quiet, so I think her having no mouth is very suitable... symbolic or something of the sort. Tau also doesn't go around wearing skin-tight purple suits. It's just what looks best for the picture. Artistic expression and all that.

Something like this except more bugish or something and maybe less gruesome looking.

No, that's most definitely not what an Illithoid looks like in my eyes. Even pure-bred.

While your ability to draw is obviously filled with talent, I have to ask. Have you ever even looked at the races you draw, in game? Your furrikin looks like an anime pin up girl (nothing intrinsically wrong with that) and your illithoid... doesn't look like an illithoid.

The arguement of "she has all sorts of genetic traits" is rather meh. We have a race specifically for that. It's called Viscanti.

The picture looks fine though. It just is not an illithoid. In fact if you hadn't said that was the inner worm I wouldn't have known. I had thought it was some weird cameo/brooch.

You press the corpse of a slithering ooze to your chest and allow your sternal mouth to open up. The sinuous feeding tendril of your inner self snakes out and latches onto the corpse, feeding on its psychic residue until nothing remains but a dried up husk that crumbles and blows away.


Tada. Because it is.

Exactly! I didn't think the picture looked like an Illithoid, I was talking about the mouth thing. GOD DAMN I'M GOOD.

I was slightly wrong, but I still see it as how I drew it.

It's not supposed to be a normal illithoid, it's supposed to be Tau. Who is, whether you like it or not, illithoid.

I didn't go down to the Prison to look at the ravagers, I looked at Somaria's daughter.

You turn to face Saaga, your sternal mouth opening to allow your inner worm to
taste her psionic emanations.