Concept Kran Quick Sketch

[imperess]

Hi every one,


 I am new to plane shift.. i havent been playing long only a few weeks but  I  really like the game and think it has alot of promise.  I thought i would try my hand at a few quick concepts.  This is my first its a redesign of the kran.  Just a quick sketch i did the other day .. i may do some other versions and color them..

 I tried to follow the mane idea plane shift has already incoporated with the kran also changing it and making it uniquely my own.  I can see  kran with nice granite or marble or sandstone textures. Perhaps even made up of loose pebble or rock.
 
I was  thinking about armor.. purposefully i did not  put any traditional armor on this kran.  To me since they are rock like carbon based creatures  it does not make much since that they would were armor although i have seen some wonderful concepts regarding kran and traditional armor. So my thought about kran armor is that maybe  they could have \" armor accessories\"  that rocks might get  to add added defense or damage..  thus my kran has quarts crystals growing out of his already stone like body.. but other additions could be moss/ plant life or perhaps  maybe a molton kran .. or other gems like rubys sapphiers and diamonds?

 Another thought I had on this was that perhaps my kran is just another form of kran or variation in the spicies.. and maybe crystals, plant life , gems rock texture could be added  to the kran character upon character creation.. as a personalization of your character.

just a thought and my two cents!!

~Carol




Edited:

 since  dying was having a problem viewing i decided it might be good idea if i posted the URL too..  

http://www.radianceweb.com/kransketch.jpg

[Karyuu]

Very nice! Superb job on the shading, and the crystals are a wonderful addition :) Will we be seeing more art from you?

[darkw00t]

Very good... one constructive comment though it doesn\'t matter much but the kran is a little more buff if you know what i mean but i love that... hopefully some other characters you could draw because i am sure they will be great

[yayoo]

Thats what they should look like really scary the ones in game look like little 6 foot puppies

[Draklar]

Originally posted by yayoo
Thats what they should look like really scary the ones in game look like little 6 foot puppies

Yeah, but you know... I\'m not sure if Krans are supposed to have muscles :P

[ArcaneFalcon]

Originally posted by Draklar
Yeah, but you know... I\'m not sure if Krans are supposed to have muscles

It\'s really best if they do.  If they didn\'t, you\'d see them and say, \"What the deuce is that?\"  They may be non-humanoid, but they are a biped, and our brains nearly demand they have a muscle structure similar to ones we are used to seeing.  It just wouldn\'t look right.

Very nice sketch btw.  I love it.  Needs more lasers though...

:emerald:

[Draklar]

...Actually it doesn\'t look right for me when Kran looks like it has muscles.
Just like with elementals... I expect them to have (leaning towards) humanoid structure, but not muscles.

[imperess]

hi everyone,

 thanks for your comments ..

  I will do some more kran sketches with your ideas.

 I was attempting to make it look more like a humnioid with rock like features and textures  because it was stated that:

 \"They appear as humanoids made of rock\"
 in the kran discription..

 When I sketch the next one I will try out some more  bulky angular rock like musculature. I really appricieate all the suggestions and advice.

 BTW i havent herd this mentioned  but  Are there female Kran?? I am thinking probably not becasue kran do not reproduce as humans do but id like to here opinions on this.


  carol

edited to add--  I will try to incorparate more  quartz crystals in the next draft

 

[Nilrem]

I\'ve to agree with Draklar.

The fact is that one, when looking at those muscles, can\'t help making an organic mental image, far away from the main differentiatory trait that krans have, that is, silicon instead of carbon.
The initial mental image that one has is a flesh body, and the crystals don\'t seem to grow from it, instead they seem to be nailed there.

I\'m not saying that a rocky structure can\'t look like that, just check those amazing sculptures that fill Italy, but those are imitating the human body.
I\'m more comfortable seeing the krans more like they\'re now ingame, angulous, with regular forms, like crystaline structures embedded one with the other, too curved forms deviates my mind from the Kran race.

That doesn\'t mean by any sense that the drawing is incorrect, I simply say that I can\'t put it a Kran label. But the work in proportions is very well done.

PS: Now that I see the picture again: The head reminds me about Protoss.

EDIT: In answer to previous post, there are no female or male Krans as they are asexual beings. I seem to recall that they are \"borned\" underground.

[Draklar]

Nope, there are no female Krans (or male for that matter). They\'re simply genderless.

Oh and I seem to forgot to say xD
I think it looks great.

[imperess]

Ok thanks for clearing it up about the gendar thing.. They seem like they would lean more towards the masculine in gendar  .. somthing about  rocks /earth always seems masculine to me

[ramlambmoo]

Needs more lasers though...  

Haha I remember that, was the best april\'s fools joke ever.  I still have the video somewhere on my computer....

On topic, art is very good.  Keep up the good work.

[dying_inside]

for some terrible reason it wont show * tears *

[Neryam]

Really??? that\'s weird mabye if you reloaded the browser..


The Kran looks AWESOME!!! I dunno, I like it without andles, but I guess that\'s just personal prefrence..

[imperess]

HI everyone,


 I did another body type sketch for the kran.  This one is more \" bolderlike\" and less muscular.  ITs just a basic sketch.. no crystal add ons or anything.. i\'ll probly be tweeking it some time and making some krans with crystals and other addons.

thanks for looking

~Carol



http://www.radianceweb.com/kran2.jpg