I originally made this drawing for  daeran as a birthday gift. The idea was to combine things I knew he liked.
I thought of this space setting with a female lizard warrior that was either injured or in distress by hostile creatures. Needless to say I took reference from metroid, otherworldly landscapes and chubby furs :) I didn't dress Charis into a complete "powersuit" (more like shields for impacts and stuff), because she is tough like that, running half naked across hostile alien landscapes xD She is modelled after the texas horned lizard.

Charis is originally from a tribal planet of hunters. People are mostly ruled by females leaders and plentyfulness as a symbol of fertility has a significant role in culture, also explaining Charis's choice of shape dispite her job :P

Originally she was to have a traditional "energy gun" of sorts but I wanted to throw in something different:

Due to a near death injury in an early mission years ago, her left arm was replaced by a cybernetic one by a military corporation called Black Cell. This Stiletto class cybernetic prosthesis has twice the strength of an organic one, conceals a powerfull rail-minigun in the upper-arm and is still modelled aesthetic enough to wear in daily life. It's a practical aid in life yet a dangerous compact weapon with alot of suprise value.

The picture is slightly digitally modified from the original in that the black areas are a solid colour instead of clearly showing my marker strokes. There was a lot of experimental stuff in this one for me, like the planet eclipse and the faint clouds. In retrospect, I think the planet in the sky pops out of the picture too much. Should have coloured the mountains almost black, made the clouds darker because of the sun and added more shadow to the characters. Oh well.

More art, story and background of Charis is underway.
(Sorry for possible misspellings, bleh)