Vulcan (Patreon)

Millenia ago, a few hundred Vulcans split off from the rest of their species to pursue strength. While the rest of Vulcan embraced logic and suppression of their emotions, these Vulcans found a way to channel their intense Vulcan emotions into their physical bodies. The result is that, after thousands of years, these Vulcans stand head and shoulders above their logical brethren and do not need to suppress their emotions as completely to keep from committing acts of wanton violence.

If you guys hadn't caught on yet, I'm a huge nerd. When I started making this piece she was actually in a TNG era Starfleet uniform, but as I went along setting her up, it became apparent that those pajamas wouldn't really work for what I was trying to achieve. I also was starting to form the story in my head as I worked, as I often do, and the story didn't really fit with one of these Vulcans being in Starfleet. Now that everything is written out, it seems like they could be, but as I was making the scene I hadn't thought it that far through yet, and so the Starfleet uniform was dismissed entirely from the scene.

And, as some of you WIP/BTS Patrons may have seen, this is the 3rd hairstyle I tried on this gal. The first one seemed very Vulcan, but caused render times to be far too long. The second hairstyle was notably the fastest to render of the 3, but completely hid the ears (which are one of the only things that differentiates a Vulcan visually from a Human). And so I settled on the 3rd and final hairstyle as something of a compromise, but one that took inspiration from T'Pol's hairstyle from the Mirror Universe.