Halloween Monster Madness

For Halloween we were tasked to create a Monster from imagination and draw/create it. I started the process by creating a mood board based on other peoples work and monsters from video games, as I am massively into the Fallout series I begun to look at some of the mutated creatures in that as inspiration, I found that most of the creatures from the game had taken inspiration from real life animals and even humans to create some of the mutated monstrosities.

After creating my mood board I decided to make something as gruesome as possible, I always found that the human monsters from games scared me the most because of the resemblance to actual life so I stuck with that theme. I still found it hard thinking of ideas so I used the silhouette method taught to us a few weeks before to help me generate some ideas. 

I came up with three silhouettes and decided that this was the one I wanted to take forward to be my final design. As you can see from the drawing I decided that the top bit should be the head as it most likely would be considered as the dome of a head or skull. After working out where bits should go I decided to draw my idea down on paper ready for it to be scanned in a painted.

I decided on beefing out the proportions a little bit on paper to give me more of a meaty creature that resembles a human being that has obviously had something happen to it. I wanted the look of the creature to seem mutated and melted with some small boils growing from it. After deciding where some of the light would be cast I moved onto painting over in in photoshop and making it look even more disgusting.

There it is my horrible. Oozing. Moist... Bleeding... Mess of a mutated human monster disgusting thing. You can even see a bit of arm fused to the torso... Yep. 

I really enjoyed creating my monster and had a lot of fun drawing out silhouettes and trying to make the most disgusting thing I could imagine at the time! I think I did well at that, if I was to do anything different I would probably work on making it look more realistic.

~ Ryan :)