​The Ortlians

Ivo facilitated my drawing this gent who came through to him. Ivo helped with giving details because this man's understanding of our concepts was a bit skewed so Ivo acted as interpreter. My understanding of this species, who despite having tails, call themselves human, is that they're pretty laid back and don't take life too seriously at all.

Please meet Drayan, who is an Ortlian from the constellation of Orpheus.
This pleasant, easy going man was flagged up to me by Ivo who wanted to give me someone different to depict.
Drayan considers himself to be human, however he does have a tail, which I depicted on the left of the image. This tail has 3 circles on the end with black spots in the middle of them.
Ortlians like to tattoo themselves and are fond of nature designs. I understand that Drayan's skin is greenish/gold and has cells that are etched in, the skin was actually plain at birth but they like to put designs in their skin to make themselves more enticing, maybe for mating. Is that correct, Drayan?
Drayan: Yes, very much so. The more detail you have in your skin, the more enticing you are to both sexes.
Me: You'd fit in well here on earth.
Drayan: You have no designs on your skin.
Me: I have battle scars, Drayan, lots of battle scars. But no, I don't do ink. I am allergic to every chemical on this planet and injecting it under my skin never seemed like a very good idea to me, especially with the variety of chemicals it would take to produce different colours. Besides that, when I was young only old sailors had tattoos on their skin and nobody wanted to look like them.
Drayan: I don't understand this.
Me: Never mind, it's just that I do. Well, the people who had tattoos were considered low class and frankly pretty vulgar, and so the association with tattoos was as well. I still associate with that time period for most of earthly references so I don't do tattoos.
Some of the features of Drayan's face are he has no eyelids. His eyes are black and shiny but he has no eyelids and I presume that's got to do with his sun and the fact that his eyes are black.
His lips are blue, which on earth would mean you've been in the water too long or your blood isn't properly oxygenated, but you see it's all different depending on where you come from.
His skin is green/gold and it's got drawings on it, I'm seeing lines that create different sized cells.
He corrects me: They're the same sized cells.
His mouth and chin are distinctly different from the humans we know. In fact the bottom of the mouth only has a small chin beneath it. The folds to either side are sagging skin.
He appears to have two sets of eyebrows but the top ones are most likely tattoo'd.
His head is actually flat. He has ancient Greek blond hair. When I asked him if his race had bred upon earth at one time, he said they had. I see some of our features in him.
His nose is quite broad and actually has a verticle line running up the middle. He seems to be quite proud of this line. He says it's a “mark of distinction” in his culture.
His head is positioned much more forward than ours is on his neck, which is broad and thick. I've tried to depict this as best I can.
When I wonder what his hands look like, he says he has a thumb, a forefinger but what passes for our other three fingers are a fused claw type object.
On his neck he wears rings with designs on them. Some are closed tight around his neck and he indicates they were from when he was younger, and others are looser. He hopes to grow into them as he ages.
His race lives about (Ivo is telling me) about 150 of our years.
He says they don't always wear clothes but he likes to wear garments indicating his status.
He says they are fourth dimensionals.
Ivo said their race is about 5 feet tall.
Drayan says the people on his planet are not all the same colour. They enjoy their differences and sometimes mate just to see what new combinations they can create!
(Well, there you go! I don't even think we've thought of that yet!)
He says the Ortlions are a gentle people. Everyone is welcome to their planet.
He says they have 3 genders: masculine, feminine and neutral.
He says they love music and playing games and despite their heavy bodies, they're very good dancers. They are more agile than they might appear, and this could be due to their tails.
Drayan also has no eyelashes, so they don't seem to have the eye thing going that we do here. He says they're not very visually dependent, as a matter of fact they use their eyesight more at night time than in the day. By day they sense energies. They can see during the day but their favourite time is night time because that's when they dance and celebrate.
They seem to be the opposite of us – they are nocturnal beings.