Tali Zorah Vas Normandy

I got very dissepointed, to say the least, by the way that BioWare gave us Tali's face in ME 3. Not that the photo wasn't beautiful, but to me it wasn't Tali; to human looking.

Putting my little project in motion I needed a good base to stand on to how I pictured her, and so I decided to make my own version of the picture in question. And this is what I came up with. Its only slightly more than a scrap so far but it gives an idea on what I'm going for.

No hair! Beacuse I don't think the quarians have hair under those helmets of theirs. I have long hair myself and I know how complicated that can be + no one else except humans has hair in the galaxy - why would quarians?

I've given her a darker skin color with a bit of a scale look to it. In my mind it's a bit like that of a chameleon skin, changing its color depending on the light. Or like oil.
It also would set them apart from the other races.

The glowing eyes! (of course) Surrounded by black skin to make them even brighter and visable veins where the skin is thinner.

Quarian already recemble the Turian in their body so I decided to try to keep them away from the face. Instead I went with a human/ asari based front, and added some carapace (most alien races - turaian, Krogan, prothean etc - have some kind) to the sides, the uper going all the way around the back of the head. I made it rainbow colored to add some color.

I kept the 'forehead thingis' but instead of having them as pure decorations I made them part of the bone strukture, giving the forehead a slight bump. I also rased the top of the head and made the over all shape more alien.

I think she's beautiful and though she has features from many of the other races she has her own stylish look.

Tali © BioWare
I make no claim to the character, the quarian race or anything else in the Mass Effect universe, but the redesign of this (if not yet fully finished) picture is my own and © me.