Quarian - Blog Posts
Totally a normal quarian. Totally not a collector or something…
Say hello to my mass effect dnd character named Skrill a collector who lost his memory’s and his connection to the reapers. He was saved by a quarian who was also in the same laboratory he was in, they escaped the lab to a nearby colony, because of his new friend he decided to make a modified quarian suit, however too many people think he looks like a deformed quarian in the suit, which he uses to hide his true identity.
I've said it before but I LOVE the way you draw Tali. 100% how I always imagine her behind the mask now.
@avadras aw thanks guys-- thank you from me and WIP tali:
while back i doodled a tali based on this concept sort of
saw some demasked alien tali … wanted 2 contribute for my sweet dorter
i was drawing tali and trying to make something to show off rachs trans headcanons but i dont exactly know how to convey it into a doodle yet (mostly bc i think that she can make herself Pretty passing anyway)
suffice to say that dmab tali is very very important to me and i hope you keep this in your thoughts
Some personal takes on Tali'Zorah ... way too much of her fanart doesn't account the fact that she is, in reality, a massive gremlin.
Tali’Zorah Mass Effect vas Normandy’s in-game unmasked portrait (even the new revised one) is a letdown and an insult against me personally, so here’s my own re-imagining of this sweet alien girl with a heart of gold and an immune system of wet tissue paper.
(inspired by this fanart and certain pieces of concept art)
hell yeah thank you!! Hey gamers SMASH that like button if you believe in sick alien Tali supremacy
quarians are like onions… they have layers… and… sharp little teeth?
(a recent Tali sketch sampler)
I love the way you draw Tali!!!! AAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
lol thank you!! I think Tali might want to yell sometimes too, here she is joining in
anyway also, Tali and Shepard are girlfriends and they love each other very much.
(also available in ✨NEW✨Renegade flavor!)
/blows off a cassette hand-labeled "headcanon Tali" and slams it into the tape deck
if the boy quarians at least get to have those cool bundles of cables coming out of the backs of their helmets, surely the girl quarians have something similar under the hoods they wear. The way I draw Tali and her people might be stubbornly different from canon in some ways, but I can believe it's not too far off.
Funnily enough I prefer YOUR Tali over bioshocks in ME3 I think? She actually properly looks like an alien from a planet where they didn't adapt an immune system
thank you! (and lol I'll assume you meant Bioware-- although a steampunk-aesthetic Tali is a very cool mental image.)
some things about how my Tali looks are definitely a result of living nearly her whole life sealed inside an exosuit and dealing with regular bouts of minor illness (at one point she mentions working while having a fever like it's something quarians just deal with). Pre-exile quarians, and post-canon quarians who have had some time to get re-acclimated to their home planet's ecosystem, would look a bit different. I did a couple lil sketches to hypothesize about some differences between my Tali during the games' timeline, and a post-canon Tali who's spent a few years on Rannoch:
there's no place like home.
(the spots of pigment on her face are made more colorful, and even softly bioluminescent, by harmless symbiotic bacteria found only on Rannoch. After the quarians fled into space after the Geth War, the bacteria died out in a generation; for over two hundred years, the only quarians with colorful faces were ancestors in old vids and pictures.)
“But, right now… I have this.”
Tali and Shepard catch the sunset on Rannoch. 🌅
recent asks 'n' vibes got me in the mood to toss some loose shading and colors onto a few old Tali sketches. The top drawing is an old framed picture (uh, I mean... framed... hologram) that Rael'Zorah has on his work desk where he does dangerous taboo science.
Can I have an OC fact? As a treat? Pick one you wanna talk about most right now and... fun lil trivia? I love your characters so much and can't pick a favorite to request
Aw thank you! (Also lol thank you to everyone who did ask me about my OCs, I'm sorry it's taken me so long to answer your asks!)
Since I just drew them again yesterday in that lil comic, I'll share another fun trivia about Kesh'Vataar nar Zakah, my nonbinary quarian OC. This is what they look like under their helmet!
my quarians have very subtle facial features, but I still don't want to let that make me slip into drawing them all with the same face. I wanted Kesh to look "cooler" than how I draw Tali, so they have narrower eyes and a more oval face with prominent cheekbones-- but also a cute spray of “freckles” across their nose.
also, I think I mentioned this a long time ago, but their outfit is a mix of elements from male and female quarian outfits in-game. I feel like even though we only saw binary-presenting quarians in the series, there's no reason why there can't be other quarian genders. Kesh isn't unusual among their people-- at least, not for their gender identity. The having-a-crush-on-a-volus thing is definitely unusual.
This isn’t really a question but I can’t find the right button, I just really wanted to tell you that I’m going NUTS over your Tali redesign!!! She’s so!! Squishy!!!!! Your artstyle is supremely soft and I am in love with it!!!
aw thank you so much!! I'm so glad you like my interpretation of her. We stan an alien babe with no immune system and no eyebrows.
I adore your Tali design and I wanna give her headpats. I'm curious though, does she by any chance have sharp teeth?
thank you-- and yes, she does!
there's no speculative biology reason behind it, I just thought sharp little teeth would look cute.
I played a little with quarian clothing :D