This guy started as what I had hoped would be an entry in the Artstation challenge, "Beyond Human". . Unfortunately, I realized I don't have the spare time needed to do all the work I would need to to be eligible. Still, I liked the idea, so I went ahead and finished this one guy up for myself.
My idea was a human race in the future that can constantly physically alter itself as desired as it interacts with it's environment. It can add limbs, modify limbs, organs, etc... on the fly. What would a species of human be like when it's aesthetic choices and functions weren't limited by nature. How would it choose to look and how did the race get to this point. For this character, my thinking is it would have progressed by the slow infusion of technology over centuries till it arrived at a state where there is no longer any real distinction between natural and artificial. Thus, an atavistic aesthetic that has a vaguely mechanical