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Visual Development for my book project.

This is a rough idea for a 'fisherman' that lives in the tribal areas of the birrin homeworld.

Traveling in groups, they wade through shallow lakes and sand flats hunting swimming creatures to feed the village.

The spear is long and cannot be held as a human hunter would: These birrin have designed a harness with a shoulder rest that the spear slides along and which carries some of the weight. The harness also holds various implements, in this case a fresh water gourd, butchering knives in a leather sheath and a ring of spikes that the catch is mounted on while the fishing continues.

Due to the position of the spear rest, one ear stalk has been folded away to keep it clear.

Long time viewers will notice that this version of the birrin has a few changes to the original, as I continue to design it.
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*OblivionJunkey94 Sep 10, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
I love this old piece i'm curious how did the name birrin come about im having trouble naming my sentient alien
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*Abiogenisis Sep 11, 2012
I think it came about by adapting an australian aboriginal word.

Another way to do it is to look through a music playlist and combine different words from the song titles in your mind.
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*OblivionJunkey94 Sep 11, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
cool thanks just looking at google translate now ive got a full drawing of my alien im happy with
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~palaeorigamipete Feb 2, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
would there be racial differences between birrins from different parts of their planet (skin color, slight proportional differences)?
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*OblivionJunkey94 Nov 5, 2011  Student Traditional Artist
love the spear sling idea
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*Abiogenisis Feb 25, 2011
I designed the birrin long before spore was developed.
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~CXZecoatl Feb 12, 2011
Huh...
Judging by the parts of the body and the tools it is using as well as clothing, I can see a very close ability for this thing to have been inspired by the game; Spore.
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~Ivansz Oct 27, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
i like it because is very untypical, is hard to imagine something like this
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~VC427 Oct 20, 2010
It's a very interesting design.
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~Oddsword Sep 21, 2010
Man, your Birrin characters are REALLY cool!
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