[Image Description: Drawing Of A Brown Jumping Spider From The Front. End Of Image Description.]

Welp, here be my interpretation of Murderbot.

Thank you to @tindoiimu for input on the inorganic colors, @nerdwingblogs for giving me the idea that it changes colors (I get choice paralysis when it comes to color schemes), and both of them plus @tytoalbias for encouraging me to let my furriness bleed into its design.

Some extra bits of info

It starts out at 7 feet tall. Is later 6 feet and 11.2 inches tall

Its skin tone is based on the Subterranean cover for Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory (Book 4.5).

The skin and muscles on its head act similar to those on its back, and since the company did not intend its security units to have hair longer than a buzz cut, its head hair reacts the same as the finer hairs on the rest of its body

I’m explaining away the claws and fangs as the company trying to make their secunits more intimidating, but the real world reason is I keep calling Murderbot a cat with anxiety and just decided to run with it.

If you wanna see what I imagine is inside it click here.

My friend @arrowawsome has been playing the Sims 4 and been keeping me updated on the goings on of its virtual neighborhoods. Of course, I feel in love with its space-loving romantic bi-gender bookworm sim and just had to draw him.

The character’s name is Eevee Zelda and has the pronouns she/him.

Just joined art fight with my bundle of furries.

artfight.net

Art Fight

An art trading game

Just created a review blog

I’ve recently noticed that I really love explaining and reviewing things, and I’ve developed a strong love of fashion and obscure and unique works of fiction. So, I’ve finally decided to combine these loves of mine and make a blog dedicated to reviewing clothing and works of speculative fiction. Working on my reviews may slow down how much art I put out here, but at least I’ll be creating something regardless.

https://kat-reviews-fashion-and-art.tumblr.com/

My Society6 store for those of you who prefer it over Redbubble.

Quote from Fugitive Telemetry. Scene set between Network Effect and System Collapse.

The binary is in ASCII, Unicode, and ASCII/UTF-8. Whichever you pick, it will translate to the same thing.

My much more proper ArtFight intro post

link to profile: https://artfight.net/~SpaceDuckling

Another drawing I dug out of my Discord to finally publicly post, this time of what I imagine Murderbot’s internal anatomy to be.

A breakdown:

Brain: Includes human neurons, a combination organic and inorganic hypothalamus, and computer brainstuff (including the threat assessment and governor modules)

Sensory Organs: Very sensitive and adjustable eyes, ears, and nose. Technically also includes the plating on the back of its head to allow it to wirelessly link up with other digital systems and the nerves all along its body

Respiratory System: Lungs are small and unidirectional, more akin to a bird’s or reptile’s than a mammal’s for greater efficiency. (Thank you to Your Dinosaurs are Wrong for teaching me that.)

Heart: Also small. Transports everything to the right place including oxygen, energy-source molecules, hormones, immune system nanobots, and so on

Power Cells: The main power cells are situated in the chest. There are power cells surrounding the brain stem and spinal cord to better fuel mental processes as well as cells in the abdomen just in case the main ones become damaged or depleted. It also specifically has power cells just for its arm guns

Waste Management: It may not eat, but its cells would still produce waste. This inorganic organ is for holding and processing said waste (as well as pathogens and other unuseful materials). It decomposes these materials into something that can be breathed out, used as fuel, turned into new cells, or (rarely) just sit there until these organs are drained or replaced during surgery

Cell Production: To reduce the risk of genetic mutation (and to make up for the lack of bone marrow), all new cells and nanobots are produced here from stem cells then distributed to the correct parts of the body. This is mostly just red blood cells, but also includes a few other cells. Note that my current headcanon is that constructs can heal on their own, but far slower than humans and are near completely reliant on external medical care to repair damaged body parts

Hormone Producer: It mostly makes adrenaline, but it can make other stuff too like oxytocin

Support Structure: Very tough and not as heavy as you’d think futuristic metal. Arteries and veins flow through it

Muscles: Mostly inorganic

Guns: It has energy projectiles in its arms. I do not understand weapons, so that is all you’re getting

Subcells: Because its limbs are detachable, its larger joints have power cell + waste management systems in them to keep the organic parts of said limbs operational for a short period of time. Also helpful as an extra source of power and waste management when the limbs are attached

Immune System (not shown): All constructs have a nanobot-based immune system that does a pretty good job of protecting them from pathogens that would harm their organic parts. This artificial immune system is pretty aggressive since constructs can’t reproduce and don’t have to keep other microorganisms within them to survive

Properly made a ref sheet for another character, this time this cat guy.

He’s a friend from college of Bev and Matonne. Survives mostly on coffee, tea, and assorted chips while roommating with his co-workers/business partners of the thrift store.

And yes, he is named after the car.

Been seeing a lot of moodboard-inspired furry character designs floating around, so I thought I’d take a stab at it. This was initially supposed to just be a colored sketch based on a bunch on whatever rainbow-y photos I found interesting, but ended becoming something way more polished. I’m pretty surprised with myself.

Photo credits listed under the cut

[Image Description: Drawing of an anthropomorphic brown cat. The cat is wearing a white t-shirt, rainbow flannel, jeans, and glasses. They are holding a book to their chest in one hand, a mug in the other, and a backpack on their back.

[To the right of the cat is a mood-board featuring photos of various rainbow objects. Above the mood-board is the bio of the cat with the following information:

[Name: Andi Orientation: Pan Gender: Genderfluid Pronouns: They/Them Age: 20

[College student studying sequential art Breakfast is just their excuse to have chocolate Loves soft rock music Had a dragon phase in middle school Addicted to thrift stores

End of Image Description]

Moodboard Photo Sources with Links

Bracelets: Marilyn Davenport on Flickr

Mug: 95839 on Pixabay

Flannel: AlexBor on Pixabay

Glasses on Book: pasja100 on Pixabay

Cat: Mikael Moiner on Flickr

Paint and Brushes: Daniel Kulinski on Flickr

Donuts: barcellosalice on Pixabay

Colored Pencils: stux on Pixabay

Books: pqgw on Flickr