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Published: 2014-12-02 03:37:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 10128; Favourites: 471; Downloads: 0
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Description It's hard to find a nice spot to stargaze with all this stuff going on. Time to get a job out in the colonies.

A commission for a long time patron who I believe wishes to remain anonymous. This is not a control ending... or a synthesis ending... it's sort of AU. NON CANON ALERT - that's a female turian... with spikes, bling and EVERYTHING (not sure what I'm implying by that). She's based on an earlier design I made before ME3 came out, which I subsequently scrapped, resurrected and now enjoy quite immensely.

I used some brushes for this... which I will list if I can remember which ones. I was worried after completion that this might be super over saturated, but I've realized that it must just be this one specific laptop. Looks perfect everywhere else.
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Comments: 50

FrustratedInExcelsis [2022-06-14 06:57:23 +0000 UTC]

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MrsArterius [2020-03-03 02:02:48 +0000 UTC]

The colors, wow, this looks incredible!

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LisaSimpson2 [2019-09-24 02:03:54 +0000 UTC]

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Slothssassin [2016-09-19 16:44:25 +0000 UTC]

Wow this is incredibly beautiful!

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tiffy316 [2015-06-12 08:20:19 +0000 UTC]

Very beautiful! I just love the attention to detail! <3

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AuthorOfSins [2014-12-10 02:54:10 +0000 UTC]

The saturation is actually  great, it makes it feel that much more alive. Really great work here, and I love your femturian!

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efleck In reply to AuthorOfSins [2014-12-11 03:51:16 +0000 UTC]

I secretly love saturation. What can I say. Bright flashing lights for me all the way And I'm glad you like my lady turian. I can't accept the drab, restrictive version BW gave us. It's just so sad. There has to be another way.

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AuthorOfSins In reply to efleck [2014-12-11 08:21:20 +0000 UTC]

Saturation is awesome
Agreed, there does have to be another way. It's rare to see people going against the bioware grain on the femturians, so I'm very glad to see you doing it.

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MoonEcho [2014-12-09 05:11:15 +0000 UTC]

ARGH this is amazing also! ...ARGH.

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efleck In reply to MoonEcho [2014-12-11 03:47:34 +0000 UTC]

I can tell you like something when I get the pirate talk. Or maybe that's YARH. Oh well, close enough!

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MrAddled [2014-12-07 02:48:09 +0000 UTC]

This is great! Keep it up. = )

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efleck In reply to MrAddled [2014-12-10 14:14:48 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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Orifiel-M [2014-12-06 20:21:19 +0000 UTC]

This is perfection incarnate! So happy to see more of your Mass Effect work!

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efleck In reply to Orifiel-M [2014-12-10 14:14:43 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! And yes, Mass Effect really is my favourite subject matter. What can I say, maybe I'm just predictable that way

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Ioialoha [2014-12-06 02:13:21 +0000 UTC]

love the color and all the little details

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efleck In reply to Ioialoha [2014-12-10 14:13:56 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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JesterDK [2014-12-05 00:01:24 +0000 UTC]

Absolutely awesome picture.

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efleck In reply to JesterDK [2014-12-05 20:11:37 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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JesterDK In reply to efleck [2014-12-05 22:28:56 +0000 UTC]

Just one of many in your gallery, I've found. So thank you for taking the time to draw awesome pics!

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efleck In reply to JesterDK [2014-12-05 23:23:45 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure!

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Cooper31 [2014-12-03 23:43:37 +0000 UTC]

Is this Tokyo?

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efleck In reply to Cooper31 [2014-12-05 23:15:20 +0000 UTC]

Not specifically, it's just some crazy place somewhere. I've always wanted to go to Tokyo though

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ftkerns [2014-12-03 18:05:28 +0000 UTC]

This is awesome. The sky and the city in the background are wonderful, and the turian is beautiful. This is what female turians should've looked like. The canon version looks more like some sort of offshoot species. I don't care for that look at all. But then, I reject almost everything that happened in ME3, especially the endings. In my headcanon, turian women look pretty much like what you've done here. Her clothing looks really good, too.

The background puts an idea in my head that this setting is some sort of theme park or tourist attraction built years after the Reapers were stopped (without that "control" crap or the "synthesis" crap). Taking the horror and tragedy and turning it into entertainment for the whole family. Maybe that Reaper is one of the rides that people can buy tickets to enter and stomp around for a few minutes.

Anyway, I love this. Amazing job all around.

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efleck In reply to ftkerns [2014-12-05 23:20:45 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad you like it! I had been sort of playing around with a female turian design for a while, and I have to say I was really disappointed with what we eventually got from BW. Although the quarians got an even worse treatment! But i suppose nothing is set in stone. I mean, compare the Klingons from the original star trek to ST:TNG.

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ftkerns In reply to efleck [2014-12-19 01:08:58 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, that's true. There were so many things wrong with the reveal of the quarians. I always thought aliens should look like aliens, not a thirty-second Photoshop job on a stock photo. There are several non-canon quarian images I've seen on DA that would've worked so much better. And that thing with how the Klingons changed over the years is a good point. Something similar happened with the Romulans, too.

But like I said, I reject most of what we saw in ME3, anyway. For me, female turians look just like the one in this picture.  

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nirzor12 [2014-12-03 17:44:28 +0000 UTC]

Reapers chilling in space Las Vegas....nice concept xD

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efleck In reply to nirzor12 [2014-12-05 23:20:59 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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Grummel83 [2014-12-03 16:32:56 +0000 UTC]

Awesome work.

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efleck In reply to Grummel83 [2014-12-05 23:21:06 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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WhiteLynx57 [2014-12-03 10:41:09 +0000 UTC]

Wow...this is really cool! So your Reapers decided not to be genocidal huh? I can dig that. I always chose synthesis anyway but this works for me too. Great work, I'm glad you got back to it.

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efleck In reply to WhiteLynx57 [2014-12-03 13:59:55 +0000 UTC]

You know, I wish they had let us set them free from their mind control (like synthesis, but without the need for metal dna, lol). I mean, each one is the essence of an entire civilization supposedly. They could have just scattered across the galaxy to either end their own misery, or explore of even just be alone in some cave on some godforsaken rock somewhere. And then in later games, we could visit them to find out things, or wisdom. who knows! Seems like a lot of wasted potential.

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WhiteLynx57 In reply to efleck [2014-12-04 00:37:28 +0000 UTC]

...Never thought of it that way, but at least that or synthesis keeps them from killing us to 'prevent chaos' or some stupid thing. I think it turned out that way cuz of the plot leaks and they didn't do a good job of changing things around. Granted it's still a good game, even if the ending kinda sucked.

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Otsdarva12 [2014-12-03 09:25:24 +0000 UTC]

And that is what the female turians should have looked like.

Awesomely done!

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efleck In reply to Otsdarva12 [2014-12-03 14:02:50 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Yeah, I do adore her now that I've drawn her. I don't know why BW had to go all crazy with their fem turian design - with the crazy eyes and the baldhead and the phantom boobs. Oh well!

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Sol-Vikar [2014-12-03 00:12:38 +0000 UTC]

This is so well done!

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efleck In reply to Sol-Vikar [2014-12-03 00:41:22 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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rainrequiem [2014-12-02 21:52:50 +0000 UTC]

I like the bling. Dunno what you're banging on about.

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efleck In reply to rainrequiem [2014-12-03 00:18:27 +0000 UTC]

Those bald lady turians just drive me crazy. So when I did my little redesign, I sort of expected the mob of canon police to appear. There's still time though I supposed

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rainrequiem In reply to efleck [2014-12-04 00:00:01 +0000 UTC]

The beauty of being a fan is that you can pick and choose your own canon. So don't worry about it. In my canon, Shepard and Joker totally got together and the Reapers threw themselves into a sun after a semi-control ending...

So...yeah.

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efleck In reply to rainrequiem [2014-12-05 02:58:15 +0000 UTC]

I would bet that some civilizations/reapers, after everything they had seen, would be ready to throw themselves into a sun. I mean really, how many cycle exterminations can a thing witness before just wanting to check out?

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Eudaimonium [2014-12-02 21:11:47 +0000 UTC]

I'll pretend it's a synthesis ending and just... lose myself.

Instant fav.

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efleck In reply to Eudaimonium [2014-12-03 00:15:36 +0000 UTC]

That reaper is just doing some sight seeing

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drawanon [2014-12-02 21:02:11 +0000 UTC]

Here is that attidude again, which you so passionately claimed not to have. You say you saw a problem with work that is payed for, but your reaction is to say "fuck it I'll post it and be done". I don't understand this... Oh well, either way, it's a pretty painting, though I would love to give some critique, seeing it is indeed professional work.


You forget to blurr out what is not in the focus point, making it difficult to find out what my eyes are supposed to go to first. Composition is balanced, but perspective is very much off. Size wise, the reaper should be around the size of a buss, I would say, and the city a large model city for maybe an especially tiny race of space hobbits. One way to fix that would be to change the angle of the water, as the waves at the moment gives it the illusion to be very close. Turian is very pretty, and shiny, and I like your female turian design. Though I'm not sure why you didn't apply any texture or rendering to the stone she is sitting on, which is what I suppose is the intended focal viewpoint here, just a few mm below her hand, which is rendered with a lot of details.


The nightsky is pretty, lots of colors, but I fear the city is going to meet its fate rather soon; that moon doesn't look friendly in its course to destruction. Also there is a distinct lack of atmosphere, as there is no light pollution from that very vivid city. I take it it's supposed to be night, even though the systems star seems to be at mid-noon.


The reaper is very pretty rendered, nice clean lines, the lights of the city reflecting off it nicely. Though you forgot to give it a shadow in the water, except for the one foot. City landscape, other than being tiny, is also nicely done, reminds me of Shanghai.


Hope some of this is useful, it's a pretty painting.


Cheers~

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DeepHurting [2014-12-02 07:09:47 +0000 UTC]

Outstanding!

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efleck In reply to DeepHurting [2014-12-03 00:18:39 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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awrah [2014-12-02 06:56:27 +0000 UTC]

I prefer your female turian anyway. They don't read as turians without the crest (or with breasts).

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efleck In reply to awrah [2014-12-03 00:13:57 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Yeah dem bald turians drive me crazy.

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finex666 [2014-12-02 03:43:53 +0000 UTC]

happy birthday ^__

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efleck In reply to finex666 [2014-12-03 00:13:34 +0000 UTC]

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finex666 In reply to efleck [2014-12-03 22:02:33 +0000 UTC]

^__

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