This is result of a project to come up with whatever monster would think think of, and draw it on adobe illustrator. To help further improve on what the creature will finally look liked, we were asked questions to characterize it. Here are the questions and answers:
Where does your character live?
the sea
Where is your character from?
Where is your character from?
he emerged from depths
How old is your character?
unknown
What is your character called?
unknown
What does your character look like?
kinda a sea serpent, chinese dragon-esque
What kind of childhood did your character have?
it just emerged after centuries of nothing
What does your character do for a living?
its a sea serpent soooo
How does your character deal with conflict and change?
attacks anything; it is a beast
Who else is in your character’s life?
no one, unless you count the lone survivor of a shipwreck who saw it
What is your character’s motivation in this scene that you will illustrate?
anger for entering his territory
Early sketch that eventully was turned into the final product
Final product
I had a few points of inspiration for my sea serpent. I liked the style of chinese dragons so i attempted to model the facial features from that. But the scales I thought stayed very true to the whole sea serpent idea.
The use of the tablet with the pen for creating the monster was a tremendous help for making some of the features more “natural” looking (vs. looking like shapes and too blocky). I was able to create individual features that looked unique every time. Plus is was really cool and fun to use the Wacom tablet.
If this technology did not exist, the whole project would have taken much longer to complete because with a mouse, I probably wouldn’t have been able to go as fast on making the cool features of it.
And finally, I’m not %100 satisfied with my work here. I wish I would’ve had more time and honestly I think I could’ve done better. This is what I have to show for the time I had, and all things considered, it certainly could’ve been worse.
The inspiration for this project can be found here: https://www.pinterest.com/mullingerj/monster-project/
