@alexriesart / alexriesart.tumblr.com
Hello,
I'm really impressed by the quality of your drawings for your birrin project, it does remind me of the illustrated encycloepdias I used to read when i was a kid (and wich I loved).
Talking of your birrin aliens (whose anatomy is so original and well tougth out), do they use some animals as mounts or are their legs strong and fast enough to make the use of a "horse" creature irrelevant (they kind of appear to me as an alien version of centaurs) ? More generally, do they use animals ("ox"creature, ...) for ploughing or transport ? I remember seeing them working with giants for heavy-lifting but not with non-sapient species.
Can't wait to see more of your work !
The birrin have indeed ridden Giants into battle and for other reasons through their history :)
What do Birrin doors look like? Do they have handles like ours or do they work differently? Are they shorter than our doors? Do the Birrin generally use their heads or their forearms to open doors?
Birrin doors are similar to ours but lower since they arent very tall. Door handles are usually worked by the beak and are in the middle as with humans. If they have a door that needs hands to open the controls are lower down since their arms are mounted that way.
Do modern day Birrin have any cultural equivalent to furries? I mean, like, the animal costumes and the art and whatnot?
They have many subcultures though there would be no direct equivalent to furries, since they have evolved in human culture due to very specific circumstances.
Dont let that stop you from drawing them though :P
