A Rider On A Flying Creature

Media: graphite pencils

A Hooded Alien

Media: black ink

Selenite, moon butcher

I turned, and they were all coming towards us in open order waving their axes. They were short, thick, little beggars, with long arms, strikingly different from the ones we had seen before. If they had not heard of us before, they must have realised the situation with incredible swiftness. I stared at them for a moment, spear in hand.

Their sturdy little forms - ever so much shorter and thicker than the mooncalf herds - were scattered up the slope in a way that was eloquent of indecision.

H. G. Wells, “The First Men in the Moon”, chapter “XVII. The Fight in the Cave of the Moon Butchers”, 1901

Selenite, minder of mooncalves

…he seemed a trivial being, a mere ant, scarcely five feet high.
He presented himself, therefore, as a compact, bristling creature, having much of the quality of a complicated insect, with whip-like tentacles and a clanging arm…
They [legs] had very short thighs, very long shanks, and little feet.
The quality of his motion during the instant of his passing suggested haste and a certain anger…

H. G. Wells, “The First Men in the Moon”, chapter “XI. The Mooncalf Pastures”, 1901