Monday Madness!

Not really madness...But here's some current things from my concept art resources class. The whole class has to work with a rough story our teacher Eddie Smith gave us: Earth is uninhabitable so what's left of the human race is traveling to Mars on the ship known as the Arc of Solaris. Unfortunately the humans stole technology from an aggressive alien race who is none too happy with that, but humankind is aided with "protector" aliens who share a genetic similarity to us.

Here's some concept pieces of characters from each race plus some silhouettes.
Humans:

Initially I had the protector's more "wispy" and ethereal as they were supposed to be noble. But I decided to go a different route in terms of their design and leaned more towards "intelligent gorilla." We have dubbed them Spatual Kings.

And lastly the aggressors. They're pugnacious bugs, not too much to say.

Eventually, I'll have to refine the turn-arounds even more...such as actually rendering the back view.