Creature Concept - Textured

Following along the lines of the technique used by Neo Ramjet in his Making of Snaiad page (http://www.nemoramjet.com/sndmakingof.html), I used a texture (below) of what is supposedly elephant hide on Google Images, the closest thing that I thought would fit my creature.

I slowly layered this texture with Photoshop over my line drawing of my creature, which I posted a while ago in May (http://notitiaproductions.blogspot.com/2010/05/creature-concept.html).

All this layering and warping to create a believable and realistic skin texture and a seamless appearance took a lot of layers to perfect, which eventually amassed to 36 layers that I had to navigate around with. Although I guess that isn't as bad as some of the collages I made for Junior High's Grade 7 year (for me) Yearbook, which in some files reached 72 layers.

I might plan to fully add in a background with a sky and everything, depicting what it is like on its virtual planet, but that's for a later post.

Creature Concept Details

Skeletal Structure

Organ Systems

Muscalature

Now I'm not sure if I'm putting a bit too much detail on to my creature, but I've designed my creature from bone up in order to have it be completely biologically sound. Each of the three drawing I have made can be layered one ontop of the other in order to create the entire biological structure of my creature.

Creature Concept

A recent assignment in my art class involved fantasy creatures. As per usual, my teacher went straight into cartoon-styled creatures, a drawing style I never really liked. Instead, I enjoyed creating realistic creatures, each with an evolutionary background and history. They were all biologically possible and plausible, and this was not the first time I've decided to create an entire virtual alien ecosystem. But this time, I started off with a single creature only, and here it is:

That there is a pencil sketch of my creature design. I'll follow this up with more pictures and designs. Hope you enjoy it!