I am spending some time this year going back to base skills, so here is a pencil drawing I worked on over a couple of days.
This one-meter tall brachiating life-form hails from a planet with a large band of thick jungle bordering its equator.
Though it can eat some vegetable matter it is mainly predatory, and its bony sideways-opening mouth conceals hundreds of gripping teeth which hold prey while tearing jaws in its throat rip of huge chunks of flesh. Two smell organs flick from its lower snout and large pits in its face conceal infrared and visual sensors, which see well in the low light of the forest understory. Two orifices near the back of its neck allow it to breath without suffocating while it feeds.
The way you render the skin on your creatures, subtly revealing the underlying muscles, it's always so awesome. Nice lighting with this, too. This is a great design, making something that swings through trees like this, but is so alien to the idea or form of a primate that it sets itself well apart.
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If its of interest, I used a 3B pencil, sketched the shape I wanted then shaded the whole thing in with the pencil in a flat base. I then used an eraser to bring back highlights, and deepened the shadows. To smooth it I used paper kitchen towels and a smudge stick.
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If you always assume that Windows Update is going to decide to restart your computer while you're afk and erase all your documents, you'll never be disappointed!
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[link] ---- Alexries.com
[link] ---- My Blog
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Some who live deserve death, and some how are dead deserve life. Can you give it to them?
- Gandalf the Grey -
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Dry on ideas? look at this project
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