"[The Divine Conspiracy] Orka sketch" by Damian "GrayWolf" Fraustro

This is a sketch for one of the Playable races for a Role Playing Game system I am designing. Eventually I'll do a digital ilustration of it (this is more of a "structural and conceptual sketch"), and then I'll upload that.

These are the Orka, intellectual humanoids from the Water Realms devoted to Aquarium, the Blue Scholar, God of Reason.

Pragmatic thinkers, wise artisans and survivalists at heart, they are observative people. They always try to understand something before judging it, preffering a laid back, intraverted, almost shy disposition at first. Once they have analized a situation or person good enough, they are fast to adapt and costumize their decisions as it would be a better fit. They have a dark and melancholic, almost morbid mood most of the time, being pessimistic and sarcastic about most stuff. It should be noted that for such pessimistic people, they never give up easily about anything.

Out of practicality, they have the habit of remaining fit and healty, as they heavily believe that a weak body leads to a weak mind and a weak heart. They do have a tendency to gain a lot of weight and loose shape if they remain inactive for extended periods of time. Their skin is dark, sometimes presenting some patterns of pale skin (mostly around their eyes and over their chests, necks and lower jaw). As a comming of age rite, males shave their heads, and pride themselves about keeping their heads bald and their beards cleanly shaved for the rest of their adult life. Their heights vary greatly, within a range of 5 1/2 to 6 feet, the females tending toward the lower side of the range and the males toward the higher.