June Art Challenge - Venardhi

[Venardhi]

Doodled this down today and figured I would throw it up even if I'm not sure I'll finish it:

 

[Admiral2]

It looks good now. What else would you want to add?

 

[Albertese]

It looks good now. What else would you want to add?

Shading!

--Alex

 

[Venardhi]

It looks good now. What else would you want to add?

Cleaning it up, adding department color variants, showing the undershirt as a basic duty uniform variant, medical variant, etc. Mostly just making it look less messy/sketchy though.

 

[Admiral2]

It looks good now. What else would you want to add?

Cleaning it up, adding department color variants, showing the undershirt as a basic duty uniform variant, medical variant, etc. Mostly just making it look less messy/sketchy though.

Right. Wasn't thinking. I'll shut up now. I think it's a good start, though...

 

[Venardhi]

Quickly filled out the pants and made the jacket-less variant so if I don't have time to polish it up I at least have something to submit as my entry.

 

[Admiral2]

These are good. Trivia question: Which is the Command color, Red or Gold?

 

[Venardhi]

Gold.

 

[Ziz]

Then you may want to change the rank insignias on the other two colors.

 

[Admiral2]

Then you may want to change the rank insignias on the other two colors.

Not necessarily. The different colors are supposed to represent different divisions, so they could all be the same rank but in separate chains of command...or, the guy in gold has just been that rank longer than the other two and qualifies for Command.

 

[Venardhi]

They're all ranked as "Commander". If I get some time before the end of the week I'd still like to do some polishing and tweaking here and there, and the rank is on the list.

The shoulder ranking is through the bars, using a similar system to the 'pips' that have been used in the TNG+ era. The cuffs will be more distinctive, like TOS.

 

[Venardhi]

Fixed ranking on previous picture, and made a little diagram for sleeve ranks. Shoulders use the "pips" system.

 

[Albertese]

That's kinda cool. I like how the department color is worked into the rank insignia, but I wonder about the difference between Command Division Ensign and Command Division Lieutenant. Seems like maybe they'd both be a gold colored chevron... What am I missing?

Also, I wonder if it's a good idea in practice relying on color to denote rank given that many people (and I suppose entire alien races) are colorblind. Having low contrast medium tones against that gray color could lead to confusion as well...

--Alex

 

[Venardhi]

In such cases, the standard gold can be contrasted with gray or differentiated with a variant shade. Such things are still flexible.

AS far as the visibility issues. . . I'm gonna go with. . . uhh. . . special Andorian Textiles?

 

[sojourner]

Begun, the clone wars have.

 

[Venardhi]

Fiddled with everything a bit, made the faces less funky looking, this will probably by my final entry. Updated above.

 

[Admiral2]

Honestly, now they just look creepy without the heads. I preferred the clones. And I don't think you needed to change the ranks. They're just uniform examples. It's obvious there would be other ranks besides Commander.

 

[Albertese]

My only nit to pick at this point is the belts. It's not that they're poorly done. I just don't like 'em. Just my personal opinion. I think All the Trek uniforms look better without belts, and that includes the movie maroons. When Jack Crusher wore it sans belt it was an improvement.

--Alex

 

[Venardhi]

Actually I completely forgot to fix the belts. I guess I'll take one more stab at a polish on them this weekend before the deadline. May as well fix the hands and a few other niggling details.

 

[Venardhi]

And here we go. The very likely, probably, hopefully, last tweak: