Alien Character (digital painting sort of)

Today i had a go at making a digitally painted piece and i decided to create an alien character that i might use in my Superhero vs. Villains project in a few weeks...( Over half term I created a summarized plot idea for what might happen in the comic book i want to create, and i came up with an alien character which changes form- from alien to human...or something else..that is its alter ego) I based the character around the looks of a crystal ball and a lava lamp (it just popped in my head). This is one of the possible designs for this alien character i shall put up the others when i work on them in the near future. I think painting on photoshop is much quicker that doing it but hand and the advantage is you can click undo for any mistakes made but its very difficult to get used to using the mouse as a paint brush. I asked a peer if it looked like an alien and they said it looked like Mary... thats good enough for me as long at it looks like some type of form/figure thing. I started by sketching on paper the alien shape, scanned it onto my Mac then started using the paint brush tool and fill in tool to do the rest and i finished it off by posterizing it...and going over it with a tree/grass shaped dodge tool to make it look more life like.... I like the outcome very much.... it looks abstract...like a lava lamp.

I named the alien form REVESARA  as a way of just saying an alien that can change shape from alien to human back to alien... so i made up a name for it that describes what the alien does. I had some feed back from a friend who i gave my blog to have a look at and they said that i should give the alien some antenas so it looks like an alien and other people have seen different things like its a person within a person or something else which in a way is good...that is the function of the alien to change form...However i shall create some design sheets of more alien looking aliens...what people are used to big eyes and so forth....I had planned to make the alien abstract because i didn't want it to be the same old thing you see everywhere and something more interesting....but maybe i could incorporate what we are used to as aliens and my abstract ideas.