AH I'm so glad I took those days off to study now, never before have I painted materials like this, I'm so excited <3

This is a cross over commission, commissioned by :iconadragonlover5: we came up with the idea randomly together hahahaa, it started out with us discussing how well a Salarian would suit Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) and then we moved on to how Watson would have to be a Turian because of the military experience :P

Anyways, I don't know if you can tell or not, but I really tried to make them LOOK like the actors. If you want to see the process I used on this go ahead and check out this link;
http://drawwithlaura.tumblr.com/post/66812496330/ahhhh-its-finally-done-this-was-a-commission

And this was the image used for reference/theme/idea: http://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/articles/sherlockcumberbatchlead.jpg?1363017856

Alien Species from Mass Effect

I thought about using the over exposed and saturated lighting to fully mimic the original image, but decided against it (it looks bad to me > w<) also I made certain traits about them more human to further push the resemblance to the actors.