For the week 4 we decided to design animals that could live
in the forest. In the story they are mentioned only once, in the opening
paragraph: 'Once upon a time there lived a King who had a great forest near his
palace, full of all kinds of wild animals.' The creatures were clearly not
important part of the story, however we decided to draw them anyway, just to
challenge our creature design abilities. Beside, this broad description left a
lot of creative freedom for our interpretations, so we simply couldn't resist.
I started the design process with some rough sketches. The
forest that I came up with in the second week was a wet, swampy place, so from
the very beginning I knew that I wanted my creature to be some kind of
amphibian or reptile. I explored different head and body shapes and sizes.
After that I pushed some of those ideas further in Photoshop.
In the sketches below I tried to merge together some real life reptiles with
features of different types of animals.
The one that I felt that stood out was the rat-turtle kind
of creature in the middle of the page. I decided to make some more variations on how that creature could look but ultimately I got back to the first one and I used this idea for my final image:
I could easily imagine this creature to
inhabit the forest I designed the other week; using its sharp claws to climb
the gigantic trees and it's beak to catch small mammals.
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