Unlike all other RPGs (except Star Wars perhaps), Shadowrun offers a large amount of playable species. Illustrations for most have been created over the course of several editions, but they don't have an identical art style and often doesn't feature on the physical features of the metatypes or metavariants. I wanted to change that and decided to pay an artist to do that. My choice was Andreas 'Rabenaas' Schroth, who already illustrated for Shadowrun for several years.
The requirement was that for each metatype there should be a male and female version, at least one of them should show physical features (like fur or dermal deposits, special hair ...) and they should fit together on a square image. Initially I only commissioned the 2x5 metatypes, but with more steady income by the Patreon and some other savings, I extended the commission step by step.
All metatypes and their variants