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My thing is - concept artists are always thinking about silhouette. It's important because you want people to be able to look at a character at a glance and instantly know what they are. A lot of times, some concept artists will even start concepting creatures by drawing out a silhouette first and then designing on top of it.
If we made silhouettes of all the different races, most of them would be pretty easily distinguishable ...except maybe miqo'te and midlanders if we cropped off the cat ears and tails. They tried to make up for it by giving them noticeably larger, cat-like eyes, a slightly different facial structure from midders - (or a very different facial structure if you have the older male miqo'te nunh face). If you put a hyur midder and a miqo'te side by side, you can visibly see the differences in their faces.
What we've seen of female Au Ra doesn't really do that. The silhouette just reads "female midlander with horns and tail". Their faces just have a few scales tacked on, but overall look like midlanders or like they're trying to squeeze the features in somewhere between midlander and miqo'te.
At the end of the day, I'm not really going to lose any sleep over it - but it's very hard to argue that the same level of work in making the male Au Ra unique went into the females too.
If we made silhouettes of all the different races, most of them would be pretty easily distinguishable ...except maybe miqo'te and midlanders if we cropped off the cat ears and tails. They tried to make up for it by giving them noticeably larger, cat-like eyes, a slightly different facial structure from midders - (or a very different facial structure if you have the older male miqo'te nunh face). If you put a hyur midder and a miqo'te side by side, you can visibly see the differences in their faces.
What we've seen of female Au Ra doesn't really do that. The silhouette just reads "female midlander with horns and tail". Their faces just have a few scales tacked on, but overall look like midlanders or like they're trying to squeeze the features in somewhere between midlander and miqo'te.
At the end of the day, I'm not really going to lose any sleep over it - but it's very hard to argue that the same level of work in making the male Au Ra unique went into the females too.