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This particular alien was named Arundina by human observers. She's part of a team assigned to study space probes sent by the human race. She's known to others of her species for her inquisitive and thoughful nature, making her a good choice for making contact with humans. Her torso is symmetrical from front to back, only broken by the hivelike structure and the manipulation tendrils.

Her species continually spawn male offspring, up to a few hundred, which live in the hivelike structure attached to the torso. These flying, mothlike males have nearly no intelligence, and are directly controlled by the female via chemical means. Possessing no eyes or any other sensory organs suitable for longer distances, the female depends on the males to relay visual information to her. This relatively slow process means that the female mainly relies on smell, touch and hearing for survival. The eyelike structures in the center of the head are actually ears.

Moving around is relatively difficult for the females, so they use the mobile forms to communicate with one another and to manipulate and transfer distant objects. A female may accept the males from another individual, which then take up residence in the hive structure on her body. A female may have up to a dozen male forms for mating living in her body, and she breeds other females from this stock when she chooses to do so.

On her "shoulders", the form attached to her manipulation tendrils is actually her braincase. The other "shoulder" uses its mass to spawn and control the mobile forms.

The metallic construction attached to her lower torso is a computer for translating human communication signals.
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~dewasugiri 6 days ago  New member
C ulllll
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Mood: Love ~Sagittarius-A-star Mar 24, 2013  Student
Arundina is definitely a beautiful and intriguing alien, nice work!! :heart: Especially as she is not humanoid, but yet appears recognizably feminine. Her body plan is definitely unusual, I'd guess she lives on a planet with a lower gravitational pull than Earth's, since she seems very slender and delicate. Relying on the moth-like males for visual information is a bit odd, maybe the atmosphere of her home world is very misty so long-distance vision is not as useful and smell, touch, and hearing are more useful? I like her unusual method of mating. I'd love to meet an alien like Arundina, a curious human meeting an inquisitive alien would find much to communicate about.
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~Bracey100 Mar 11, 2013  Professional Digital Artist
What a unique, beautiful and well thought out design!
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~Ziggyman Mar 6, 2013  Professional General Artist
Unsual, but plausible. I suppose to keep herself standing, the gravity of her homeplanet must be lower an so her planet must be in size smaller than earth.
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~kite11 Nov 13, 2012
a very interesting design and concept
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~THEINVINCIBLEPHANTOM Nov 5, 2012
I don't know why, but I like everything about this illustration, and it's one of the rare nonhuminoid alien species that makes it more interesting to me. This is just great stuff.
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~dr-science May 28, 2012  Student General Artist
oh my gosh i remember seeing this illustration in a book i flipped through in an art store one day - to this day the design always stuck with me and influenced a lot of my work. this is beautiful!
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Mood: Love ~darkgrim-13 Feb 16, 2012
amazing
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~UnyieldingReclaimer Aug 22, 2011
You know what's insane? I found this in the 'How To Draw Fantasy Females' book. I loved this very much and found her to be very beautiful.
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~rubendevela Aug 22, 2011
Thanks! Yeah, that book takes me back :D
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