Creature Compendium

This creature had a mostly straight ahead design process, as I was keen on the painting aspect of the process. The most challenging part was finalizing the anatomy and volume, which took a while to get right. I referenced the shape of a horse for the body and the feet were adapted from a dog, while the head and tail were from imagination.

I wanted the work to pop out, so I kept the line art - giving it a pen and paint style, which I extended throughout the project, with a direction to a more varied and tactile feeling.

The additional artworks here also helped to fully establish the tactile feeling with materials like ink, paper, pencil, paint and tape, especially the feather sample which at first glance looks stuck on top of the paper which I was quite happy with.

This was the earliest creature design featured and was used for a walk cycle. 

It was picked from a group of designs and reiterated on. I first worked on the key poses of the walk, with a basic skeleton with volume of the bones and markers, then I added the volume of the rest of the body, applying depth wherever possible.

Half of the additional artworks were reworked from the animation and process, so I focused on creating the photograph, which was a fun experiment. but was deceptively difficult to get right.

This page was more experimental, trying out watercolor and gouache painting styles on photoshop, and drawing influence from real life insects and animals adopting mimicry for survival, copying their environments or other insects.

This was the most challenging creature to draw in this collection, I had to apply anatomy, volume and perspective on this, and drew from as many sources as I could. I abstracted the background so the focus will be on the animals.