Following and online tutorial on YouTube we were asked to design three crustacean inspired creatures. I have never used the silhouette method before or had much practice painting on Photoshop so this was especially difficult.
I began by searching for any weird and interesting crustaceans as well as some anatomy pages to help me design something as realistic and believable as possible.
Following the tutorial I started blocking in some characters using the features in my mood-board. It was very difficult to imagine what to draw without adding any details.
I then stretched and distorted the characters to improve their shape and made them lighter at the top to help colouring as well as scribbling some highlights to give me a bit of shape to work with.
I then went in to adding details. It was hard to get used to as I had to build on the layers (though I did it all on the same layer) instead of working your way in from an outline. I wanted to create different creatures with opposite looks. The first one is designed to look like a human though if you look closely there aren't really many human features. The second one I spent most time on as I wanted to try another painting method. I saw that a lot of crustaceans have dots over there skin because of the shell texture so I tried to imitate this. This is also the one that looks closest to a normal crustacean but it is my favourite. The third one is actually the one I designed and painted first. It is very dark as I wanted a dark one colour shell but because of that there isn't much detail. The one thing I really like about it is the weapon as the sketchy style and design looks good.
Lastly I moved around and re-sized the creatures so that the shapes fit together better. I then added a colour layer with some colours inspired from the pictures I found. I am still not used to colouring like this so I don't like how bright and solid the colours came out, especially the blue, but as I had dark characters to begin with, there wasn't much I could do.
I later went back on Photoshop and played around with the levels and changed the background to just simple grey patches.
I enjoyed this activity even if it was difficult for me but I'm sure I will use it again.
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