A small 3-pack of custom portraits for player usage, two under the male category (though they're both actually genderless), one female. Christmas chaos, some technical matters, and general life meant this came out a lot smaller than I wanted - hoping to come back to it later down the line, and with a bit more experience with digital art under my belt. Sculpture is my main discipline, so I'm pretty happy to take a stab at expanding my range a bit. Made chiefly in Autodesk Sketchbook, with some touching-up done in PSE.
The fusion of meat and metal offers more than the immediate, obvious advantages. The removal and degradation of organic elements to make way for intrusive cybernetics has an inevitable effect on regular methods of expression - facial tics, body language, voice cadence and tone. The end-result has an effect on a person's overall physical presence that can only be described as "the uncanny valley" - but rather than having an off-kilter appearance, it's the mannerisms that suffer. Or benefit. A good politician is always hard to read. So is a good warlord.