Volleyball |
Procyonian volleyball players in their practice gym. The uniforms are worn mostly because the numbers have to be put on something; the numbers themselves are in three systems - Talle alphabet, Talle numerals and Arabic numerals.
This picture had been mostly painted in 2008, but I did not like the bright background, and the face had deviated off the sketch. In 2010 I overpainted the background, reworked the face, and touched up most other things.As usual with acrylics, even after meticulous color matching it looks much better in person.
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The pupils are rather small. For what light conditions are there eyes made? Do they have a tapetum lucidum? Are they trichromatic?
The small pupils are just an aesthetic choice in this case: makes the stare more disconcerting. Focco are mostly diurnal, but have excellent night vision - much better than humans. They do have the reflective lining in their eyes, and are trichromatic - but the third pigment is an independent mutation and not tuned to the same wavelength as the Terran primate one, so the triadic displays made for human and focco vision look "off" to the other species, respectively.
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