Next stage was to add back 'legs' to the creature and get a little more descriptive with the surface/texture. With the back section I wanted to keep with the creepy crawly feeling so I created a set of spider type legs to support the mid section.
The idea was that the front arms provided the power to move forward and the mid section would swing forward while being supported by the front two hands and the spidery legs at the back. The mid section would flex and bend and give the creature the agility to change direction, twist and turn to snap with those huge teeth.
The creature could stand on the mid section but only to gain momuntary height to see prey. It would then drop back down onto the front two hands to continue. The creature would be a night stalker that waited and ambushed prey rather than chasing it down. The three eyes were added to help the creature see in low light.
The strange thing at this stage is that I didn't have much idea about the size of this creature. I initially had just imagined, assumed it would be about the size of a crawling man. With much larger hands than that of a normal sized male. It was something I'd have to think about and quick because this was beginning to come together as a concept.
I wanted the surface to be fibrous, like tendons that grow and hold the creature together, but mixed in there with dense bone. I called it Plant Creature because of the initial thumbnails and I liked the transparency of the sketch in the previous post. I indicated this here in foreground hand where you can see its darker in colour. However it had started to look more like it was made of flesh and bone which I didn't want, because it reminded me of a Resident Evil type design.
Light played a role in the predatory role this creature used to catch its prey, it used its transparent skin to bend light helping it to blend into its environment. I used a simple filter in Photoshop to produce the slimy look (Plastic Wrap) it gives nice specular hits to sell the surface texture. Thats all for now... Thanks for reading!
The whole illustration was done in Photoshop using a wacom tablet.
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