I have mentioned my friend Yark-Wark before and I’ve made mention of her “Team Prototype” project, a sci-fi adventure project with her four main protagonists Sparks, Nix, Phineas, and Tero (she’s an awesome artist, I seriously recommend going to her dA page or her main TP tumblr).

Her character Nix is a bird race known as ‘Razor Wings’, and Nix is one of my favorite characters of the team, so seeing her and some other Razor Wing character concepts, I got the idea of wanting to design my own Razor Wing character.
So here we are.

This is Owen, an owl Razor Wing; Razor Wings can be any bird so the first thing that came to mind was the great horned owl, and I ran with the idea.

Razor Wings wear ‘headphones’ so they can actually hear, so I had the idea of giving him the headphones that also have a kind of energy visor that act as a heads up display as well.
That helped me think on his character a bit as to what he was and what he would do and I actually came up with the idea that he would be a kind of hacker/spy/infiltrator, someone that looked pretty harmless at first, but has some skills to help him out in his work.

Color-wise, I know owls do have a patterned look to their feathers, but I wanted to try and keep him simple as well, also I feel I should play around and tweak a few things, but we’ll have to see.

Just something fun and simple I wanted to play around with.


Done in Paint Tool SAI.

Razor Wings are © Yark-Wark.
Owen and art are mine.