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EDIT: The WIP has been updated with the latest version. Comments appreciated!

Okay... so the assignment was called "Alien Interloper", but personally, I think THIS is what the pusher and shover robots have been protecting us from by so kindly shoving us down stairs.

This was a wonderfully fun assignment where we were given an exerpt from a short story, and we had to conceptualize everything from the basic thumbnail stage all the way to completion. In this case, he gave us all this scene with a woman on a spaceship, and her partner gets wounded by a strange alien that comes on their ship. There were very particular descriptions that I tried to adhere to without making the alien goofy. I chose this part to do:

"The fingers of these strangely bending limbs fastened onto a nearby stanchion and an immense, roughly triangular torso, perched atop two thick, sinewy, oddly joined legs, loomed up into the eerie greenish light. As strange and terrifying as the huge body was, the creature's head was more fearsome still. Its three huge, watery eyes moved independently of each other on flexible stalks as the thing summarily surveyed its surroundings. The large, elongated head possessed a slathering gash of a mouth, with ragged fangs that protruded past green blue lips. It had no nose that could be recognized, but a row of slits in the creature's short, muscular neck pulsed and fluttered like gills, laboriously drawing air into its gigantic frame. Beginning at the top of its disproportionately large head and running down its back, was a whirling mane of slender, reddish slug-like parasites that squirmed and coiled in a bizarre parody of human hair. Some of the slugs fell onto the deck and scattered in various directions, seeking the security of darkness. Vera's skin began to crawl. She feared that the parasites, attracted to her by her body heat, might make their way up into the shielding cover of her flight suit. Powerless to suppress the impulse, she let out a gasp."

I also wanted Vera's suit to glow like fiberoptic clothing... I wanted everything to look icy and ethereal, and the alien to look warm, organic, and raw. Did it work? I'm still working on this, so suggestions are very welcome, as always.

Description
EDIT: The WIP has been updated with the latest version. Comments appreciated!

Okay... so the assignment was called "Alien Interloper", but personally, I think THIS is what the pusher and shover robots have been protecting us from by so kindly shoving us down stairs.

This was a wonderfully fun assignment where we were given an exerpt from a short story, and we had to conceptualize everything from the basic thumbnail stage all the way to completion. In this case, he gave us all this scene with a woman on a spaceship, and her partner gets wounded by a strange alien that comes on their ship. There were very particular descriptions that I tried to adhere to without making the alien goofy. I chose this part to do:

"The fingers of these strangely bending limbs fastened onto a nearby stanchion and an immense, roughly triangular torso, perched atop two thick, sinewy, oddly joined legs, loomed up into the eerie greenish light. As strange and terrifying as the huge body was, the creature's head was more fearsome still. Its three huge, watery eyes moved independently of each other on flexible stalks as the thing summarily surveyed its surroundings. The large, elongated head possessed a slathering gash of a mouth, with ragged fangs that protruded past green blue lips. It had no nose that could be recognized, but a row of slits in the creature's short, muscular neck pulsed and fluttered like gills, laboriously drawing air into its gigantic frame. Beginning at the top of its disproportionately large head and running down its back, was a whirling mane of slender, reddish slug-like parasites that squirmed and coiled in a bizarre parody of human hair. Some of the slugs fell onto the deck and scattered in various directions, seeking the security of darkness. Vera's skin began to crawl. She feared that the parasites, attracted to her by her body heat, might make their way up into the shielding cover of her flight suit. Powerless to suppress the impulse, she let out a gasp."

I also wanted Vera's suit to glow like fiberoptic clothing... I wanted everything to look icy and ethereal, and the alien to look warm, organic, and raw. Did it work? I'm still working on this, so suggestions are very welcome, as always.