Tentacles!

So this week we have had to make something with Tentacles, I decided to make some sort of a phobia based monster, I first started by researching tentacles and different phobias and discovered that Arachnophobia is the top Phobia experienced by people. After doing this research I decided to make a mood board to help formulate what I wanted my creature to look like

Moodboard Showing Tentacles, Spiders and Other Bugs

After creating the mood board I then moved onto doing some studies of tentacles and different animals after a few drawing I then moved onto doing some freehand drawing of tentacles. After a few drawings I found it much easier to figure out how the tentacles move and act.

Tentacle Drawings

By looking at the tentacles I was then able to move onto a drawing of my design, I decided to merge three animals together to create a hybrid monster. I eventually came to the decision to merge a Spider, Bedbug and Octopus together and came out with something like this:

Clearly the stuff of nightmares

Im still not really sure what to call it, but I am really happy with the idea and moved onto colouring in the base using a few colours, I decided to stick with five different colours as I didn't want it to get overly complicated.

Pretty Colours!

I stuck with earthy colours for the body to make it seem more natural, after putting in the base colours I then moved onto adding the shading at 40% grey because the 60% grey looked much too dark.

Awesome Shading of Awesomeness!

After the shading work I then moved onto adding gradient and lighter tones in order to make it look more three dimensional I added lighter tones of the earth red and added more yellows to make it look more vibrant then I added some highlights to add shine onto the body and tentacles.

And that is it! My finished Spider, Bug, Tentacle thing... It looks great and I really like it!

~ Ryan :)