A bunch of sketches & concepts for xoys. They're an old species I'm on the process of reviving. Some things about them:
- they're shorter than humans on average;
- they're rodents;
- they live near oceans & rivers and are native of the tropics;
- their horns are actually antlers, being casted and regrown yearly. horn art is one of their biggest markets;
- Their horns are naturally straight and smooth, though xoys will sometimes use casts to modify their shapes to things such as curved, ridged, or ram horns. Horn casts and horn carvings are their most popular horn mods;
- Often xoys will carry horns of loved ones, or just horns they were proud of to show off their skills;
- they're all breasted & all xoys can breastfeed their kids, adopted or their own. its more of a psychological thing than a pregnancy indulced thing;
- they're omnivorous, most avoid land animals for cultural purposes, without any issue eating aquatic or flying animals.