C.O.W. #222 ,the body part. Wips Thread.

[(lark]

For more info and details about the rules go here:

http://www.concepyart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=110879


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ROUND #222, the body part

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ROUND#222, the body part

This weeks creature is going to a bit of a cheat on the rules. Well, one rule in particular the no humanoids rule.

To explain... imagine there is a virus spreading through the world that causes humans to lose various body parts that in turn mutate into independent lifeforms.

Now, choose a body part other than the torso (head, arm, hand, leg, or foot but also smaller parts like an eye, nose, ear, fingers, toes, etc.) And mutate that into a gruesome little creature.

Requirements this week...

- it must be recognizable as to what body part it mutated from, but remember, NO TORSO'S!

- you must mutate it to a point that it is recognizable as an independent creature, meaning that it is able to move, and eat, etc.

That's it for requirements this week, get creative and don't be afraid to get a little humorous with this one.

Deadline:

July 27th 9:00pm PST (GMT -8 )

finals go here... http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=3192052#post3192052

[lancer_idenoure]

hmm are we allowed to fuse multiples of the same part together? like the winner of cow#50?

[hekatoncheir]

This post made my dreams come true. :bounce:

[ColdDegree]

o.o interesting topic

[Tim Murphy]

Seems I picked an interesting week to get over my worries and start participating, looking forward to it!

[Rob Powell]

Nice topic! I'll try to make sure I don't miss three in a row!

[(lark]

lancer: yeah that's cool. i'll allow it.

[Rob Powell]

Are we limited to just one body part or can we combine more than one different parts together?

[(lark]

rob powell: hmmmm. yeah i guess you could do that too.

[Verehin]

WOOOOOOW! Thats awesome idea, Im totally in =)

[warburton]

Interesting topic, will be fun to see how people take this.
Something to consider if random body parts are going to start getting moulded together is to remember what purpose those limbs were originally designed for. The human is designed the way it is for a purpose so making up wacky anatomy and sticking a pair of walking arms and hands with a head on top, although fun could end up unbelievable and I guess off topic.

When I read the brief heres what instantly strung to my mind. Be warned. This isnt for the weak hearted http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TevQS4qgE_Q&feature=related

[artiphats]

I keep thinking of working off the eyeball :eyecandy: :oneye: . Should be fun :)

[ColdDegree]

yea i was thinking eyeball but we cant D:

[Rob Powell]

You can use eyes as long as there is no torsos in your design

[ColdDegree]

oh haha i read it wrong @_@ thought it meant you cant use all the examples he said

[Taiski]

Well I'm pretty stumped for good ideas on this one.

http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i346/Taiski/kidneyetc.jpg

I guess it's time to do some good old fashioned THINKING.

[artiphats]

Lung Twins! LOL

[ismo]

This sounds awesome. Might have to give this 'thing' a try. :teeth:

TevQS4qgE_Q

[artiphats]

Just a few quick sketches in Painter to get the juices flowing :) Middle one is an "eye with a mouth with an eye inside whose tongue also has an eye" idea. Might go with something like that, cause it's just so wrong.

[Rob Powell]

@artiphats: good start, I like the one in the middle the best, it has a fiercer look with those teeth and extra eyes

threw down some really quick sketches down on paper, you can see the basic idea, I'm liking 1 the best, and I realised how much 4 looked like a frog, lol. May keep refining the design, perhaps add some digits and maybe some eyeballs budding from the creature's neck and whatnot

[Taiski]

A monster idea sheet. Pick your favorite!

http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i346/Taiski/abodypartideasheet.jpg

[ColdDegree]

ugh im stuck i got no ideas :/

[(lark]

hahaha some cool stuff already.

also i think i worded things a bit confusing. you can use any body part except the torso

to those who mentioned "the thing" its really cool you picked up on that because thats what gave me the inspiration for this topic. just saw a couple of days ago that there was going to be a remake. but the original is awesome! everyone should see it if they haven't.

[artiphats]

Yup, The Thing is quite a creepy movie.

Rob, that brain on top of the eye in #3 is genius. Love it.

Taiski, I think #1 would give me nightmares, I vote for that one :) #4 is hilarious, what if it released deadly gas? LOL. Your #3 and 5 share the direction of what I was thinking to do, I have the Eye Snail but your Skull Snail is cool too.

This might shape up to be a really epic round!

[Si_Swe]

I may try this out. If I do I'll be using the heart or the pancreas.

[Artfix]

Hey I guess I could use even MORE clarification :)

Someone else asked but I never saw an answer; can a few parts be combined or...? I see some roughs here that are doing that like a hand with a brain and an eye attached. Since it is a viable creature, then it needs eyes to see and a mouth to eat. it may also need a brain to think, and legs to move. So I'm guessing yes, it needs multiple parts.

This could be pretty cool hehe.

[Rob Powell]

Taiski: I like number 1 the best, it lookslike the mind of creature that will freak you out, then kill you while your freaking out. :D Try to think how you can make it look more like a creature than just a living brain and spine. Number 4 is def a cool idea as well, lol.

Artfix: Well (lark did say yes, so go nuts! These creatures break off of people then morph into living organisms, who says they can't morph with other body parts either?

Well seeing as there was a lack of eyes in the last round I'm gonna makeup for it this round, lol. Here's what I'm basically going to be working with, I'm liking the way this has turned out so far, like yeast this creature reproduces through budding, once the new individual is large enough it drops of and grows into a new creature. Just need to figure out how it will injest nutrients...

[Sealegs]

artiphats- Crazy beasts- i like the middle one the best too! So many eyes! lol
Taiski-I also like #1- it reminds me of something out a old fashioned horror movie!
Rob Powell- good start! maybe pull the curve of the neck even father towards the back, it kinda looks a little off balance right now like its about to fall forward onto its face, or eyeball hehe...

I wanted to try a upside-down skull creature, where the jaws are still the jaws of the creature... I also wanted to use the neck/spine a bit along its back- and maybe have a tongue still intact...
started with skull drawings and then drew ontop of em... really quick and sloppy :nohope: still unsure where to take it...

http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n261/captain_sealegs/skullbeastthumbs.jpg

[(lark]

artfix: yeah you can combine different parts. But I more envisioned it in a way where certain parts would mutate out from the original part. allowing it to live ( move, eat, etc.) Hope that explains it. Sorry if its vague.

[Artfix]

Lark Yes that does help. It has one main identifiable part--I got it :) Thanks.

Sealegs I truly love all of those man. Really good. Really impressed with the creativity on those.

[GoldenSerpent]

Hey guys! Got some free time so thought I'd join in all the fun again. :)

Sealegs: Really nice designs I'm especially liking the one on the top right.

Taiski: The brain and hand creatures look the most interesting to me, although the butt monster gave me a chuckle.

Here's what I've been brainstorming so far:

[snippet]

I was wondering if we could use the ribcage? But I know that borders being a torso since it makes up the torso... :nohope:

[Artfix]

GoldenSerpent geez man! Leave some awesome ideas for rest of us will ya? Those are terrific. I can see I am a small fish in a big pond here...:nohope:

[Tim Murphy]

I can't be the only one who thought of using the nose, can I?

[Klungsama]

First time I've seen creature of the week thingie.. Looks awesome :)

[fuhrenator]

Sealegs bottom right is fucking awesome...

and...well... penis monster allowed?

[gervasium]

Hi, guys. This topic made me think of a teratoma, especially the wips that are trying to combine different body parts. You should research that.

[DefiledVisions]

GoldenSerpent, I really dig the top left concept.. arm-worm thingy.. really cool!

[heimdayel]

looking good rob and sealegs, with a good measure of horror and disturbingness without being too far fetched.
the brain creature looks interesting taiski..yea prolly seen too much WoW but with the way it looks, it first made me thought of how those flying snakes fly...that's before I saw it more looking like a cobra :P

going off for the weekend, so first sketches will prolly be uploaded on sunday/monday earliest..
though of going with the eyes too, with the nerve endings behind developped like some kind of squid with a mouth at the base of its tentacles, and spindly arms(not human..too big) holding it aloft..
this may change though, we'll see

[Verehin]

horror :yum:

[Eclectix]

If they are still recognizable, can internal organs be used (such as lungs, or a brain, or a pelvic bone, etc) instead of external parts?

[Zarquino]

Ok, I dont dont know if I went too far, with the body parts, and not far enought with the thing, things still have to go further.

If someone says I mustn't do this one - forbidden - it's ok, I completely understand - lol -.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e47/Zarquino/COW/Cameldickcopia.jpg

@sealegs: trully awesome! Beautiful, really :)

[Metallurgist]

I started with the spinal cord/rib cage one but thought it was a little to obscure, and I am thinking a little against the rules since its part of the torso. I think I'm going to go with the armapede one.

[artiphats]

Still going through reference and deciding if I am going to go in this direction or not, but so far I like it so I might keep working it.

[maeganite]

@sealegs: those skull creatures are pretty sweet.

So far I have been working on feet. the top left is a very hairy leg, the toes are hanging from its "face":P

[Artfix]

I dunno I probly won't finish this one. There's just not enough to work with. I am pretty much an illustration guy so...here was my idea anyway--tongue slug.

[Metallurgist]

Artiphats: Kinda reminds me of a shoggoth, nice though.
Maeganite: Your designs look interesting, but I find it a little hard to recognize the body part its based off of.
Artfix: You should finish it, it already looks pretty awesome in my opinion. And I like the tongue coming out of the tongue.

[ColdDegree]

well i got an idea, only one :/
edit:ok worked on it more

[skodone]

also having a try on this one :)
gotta have a lot of time now so i hope im able to join a bit more often than just looking at awesomeness every week :P

[artiphats]

Metal, I had never heard of a Shoggoth, but I googled it and the drawings and paintings people have done of it are pretty cool. Thanks for introducing me :)

[David79]

zarquino mann ahahahahaha i almost cry of laughting!
great ideas so far :)

[Metallurgist]

Artiphats: never heard of a shoggoth? You better read up on your lovecraftian horror. ;)

[ColdDegree]

alright worked on mine more

[Lege1]

Golden Serpent: Great concepts! I personally like the brain concept a lot =)

[Vulgar`]

LMAO at the phallus camel.

[Rob Powell]

Sealegs: Really cool idea dude! I like the top right one the best, pose and design, looks like it can pounce onti it's victims. How about some tentacles from the eye sockets?

GoldenSerpent: The top two def have some potential, while the bottom two seem to lack the same creativity as the others, I like the arm creature the best though

Verehin: Neat, it's neat how it's jaw unhinges, I seem to like the right concept better, it's seems more creepy if it just hangs from the ceiling and snatch unsuspecting victims as they pass.

Zarquino: haha, penis camel! I lol'd

Artfix: Looks neat so far. It has potential, you just need to build on the design a bit, also there's no reason why you can't turn this into an illustraion, so long as the majority of the design is visible.

skodone: good start, I'd try to build on the design a bit, becasue to me it doesn't feel like an independent organism so much as just a finger with legs.

Shading and values almost complete, didn;t really have a lot of time to work on this today other than earlier in the morning, will see what happens when I start to add some colour to it, really need to work on simplifying my rendering, almost seems too time consuming. Will have to try a different approach to paintingin the future, becasue this way worksif Ihave time to do everything.
This is turning out to be a pretty fun round. Def a good direction for cow, because the focus isn't so much on creature anatomy, but human anatomy to create a new creature, which is pretty cool.

[ryansumo]

Hey folks, dropping in here for the first time cause the topic caught my attention, seeing some excellent stuff here!

Had a bunch of ideas right away, a lot of them involving aquatic themes:
1. Scrotum jellyfish
2. Bicep slug (lugs have muscular feet, which felt very apt).
3. squidlike leg. I lke the concept of this but I'm not sure I really made the right choice adding fins to the feet. that could use some more work.

Anyway I'd be happy to know what you guys think!

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h100/endlessthirteen/artwork/cow222wip.jpg

[heimdayel]

great ideas coming up along! both silly and horrific :)
changed my idea while doodling this weekend..eye creature idea I had seemed too boring imo... figured since I like birds, and undead birds are not enough why not do a bird evolved out of human bits and pieces?

rough sketch right now, planning to take photos of my hands and foot for ref
(lol anatomy prolly sucks right now..have big books for ref, but was too lazy to get them out for this sketch...)

[artiphats]

Here's a go at what I thought of as a slightly diseased eyeball, just by itself. I'm probably going to build off of this for the rest of the creature.

[NailBiterMR]

Here are my thumbnails and ideas so farrr, not rly sure which to use. Might end up making a new one from scratch for the final.

o ya , first time participating, Hi everybody : D!!!

[ryansumo]

NailBiterMR: Loving the buttcheek monster!

[ryansumo]

Hey all, went with the squidleg even though I was sorely tempted to go for the scrotum jellyfish, just cause its a lot easier to render. :P

Let me know what you guys think!

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h100/endlessthirteen/artwork/squidleg.jpg

[AdrianNagorski]

Some very awesome funny/creepy/original/eye ballie ideas guys!


just a few random comments / hope it helps and doesn't offend:

ryansumo: so thats what happened to my leg!

Rob Powell: Digging your values and design really elevated the hand idea

NailBiterMR: thumbnails are a bit unreadable as to which body part it maybe, liking the hand on tho.

artiphats: are you eye balling me man! looks great but how is it a creature on its own?

heimdayel: i like the fusion idea, but its hard to visualize it happening, but a good concept creatures arms are great.

ColdDegree: the freaky eyeball jawed lizard, cool, tongue is great! there is a bit of confusion as to which body part this guy originaled from for me tho. Seem its from the eye ball??

skodone: Lets not be pointing fingers now! Very cool keep going. . . .

Artfix: its a tongue? Im gonna keep away from womens lower body parts from now on! Scorpion tail a classic touch

maeganite: hope you flesh it out more so i can make a fungal comment

Metallurgist: liking your thumbnails

Zarquino: Hey! Its a camel man!

Verehin: reminds me of Dead space, the floating heads nice but very creepy

Klungsama: I like the ear one. The penis one is very . . . . . .

Radicou: actually you are the only one! LOL go for it man see how far you can take it, it doesn't look mean tho try make it look more agro

GoldenSerpent: Liking the intensity in your thumbnails already, looking forward to see what you'll produce!

Taiski: liking your brain one, wonder where your at now with this challenge.

Sealegs: great early work liking the skull at the bottom right of the image you posted.

(lark: is my design fine (the spinal creature???) can i keep going with it??

Just started mine, hope and I HOPE spines have a green light because i got a great story board going as well, sort of a medical study . .:yayca:

[David79]

hello guys!
my concepts dunno which one i'm going : /

[skodone]

like the lower right most :)

going to evolve mine a little more tomorrow hopefully having some ideas ^^

[ChromaticCodex]

Amazing topic! I might have to abuse my old crippled hands for this one.

[J-Sun]

Great concepts all!

Here's where I am at with my "fingerlings"
I'm working to tighten things up and make them a bit more menacing.

http://www.digitaljungle.com/COW_222_j-Sun_WIP.jpg

[David79]

J-sun: dude don't make them menacing they are screaming for love, especialy the little one ^^

up!

[ColdDegree]

lol david is that a killer vagina O_o

[(lark]

adriannagorski: yeah that's fine.

Looking sweet everybody! Keep it up!

[GoldenSerpent]

J-Sun: I also like how they are non-menacing especially when many immediately went that route. They seem sort of like they could be a futuristic designer pet; supply scientists with a bit of DNA and they grow you your own one of a kind fingerling.

David79: Awesome designs man! :D

AdrianNagorski: First off, really cool concept. Second, I'm not sure if you're planning to use your story board as your final or if it's just a brainstorm but I think the woman would look better curled up instead of stretched out when the creature is bursting out.Maybe something like this:
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/2915120/2/istockphoto_2915120-woman-s-back.jpg
but instead of holding her knees maybe clawing at her sides or something. A similar top down view might also showcase the scene better than a side view.

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Decided to go with the arm creature, here's my progress. I decided to change the head as the one in my initial sketch seemed rather bland.

[Sealegs]

Wow, some really cool stuff going on guys!
EDIT: Here some feedback... there was way more people in this thread than i realized!

Radicou- Try to improve the clarity of the nose, i see it now but i was confused at first glance, also a look at some insect legs, The little antennae things are cute but they are a little confusing because they are coming out of his head and from his underside...
Klungsama Lol, i like what u have going on on the head of the penis creature...I kinda like that nose bug too...
Verehin- Really cool idea...and scary!
Zarquino -this made me laugh! I wanna know how it eats...
Metallurgist -cool idea! The skeletal scorpion is cool idea...i really like the shape of the body- the other 2 have potential as well!
artiphats Lol, this thing is crazy- I really like it, Its kinda unclear if that eyeball on the tongue is attached to the creature, or if the creature is going to eat it, and add it to himself... I like this guy more than the single eyeball creature, tho you did a nice job rendering that eyeball...
maeganite interesting creature, be careful not to add so many elements that its hard to tell what the body part is...
Artfix-This is cool! you should finish it!
ColdDegree I like the idea of a creature made of brain matter- right now the head looks really heavy to me, the bone/jaw element could work, i feel like it may need some other bones visible elsewhere in the design...keep at it!
skodone Really cool and creepy, i can imagine getting attacked by all ten fingers and toes!
Rob Powell -Good start, right now stuff looks like it is rendered out of the same material kinda, i think u need to make the brains and eyes look more slimey... u have highlights on the corneas of the eyeballs, but the eyeballs themselves need a highlight too :D
heimdayel - interesting idea, this seems like a very surreal creature, like maybe from a nightmare... its hard to see the hands working for flying in real life...
NailBiterMR- Really cool ideas.. the butt creature is cool & funny, but i also like that hand creature!
ryansumo Cool idea, I can see this guy having a kick motion, right now he doesn't look underwater much, maybe look at some ref of some whales and stuff underwater..
AdrianNagorski- Really cool idea, i like that you thought about how the creature came into existence...
J-Sun- I agree with David, these guy are likable right now, in a friendly pet kinda way...
David79- Really awesome! truly terrifying- keep up the good work!
GoldenSerpent- Really cool! I really like your style... I like how u have the veins wrapping around the creature...
Sealegs Learn to paint!!


Worked on it a little today- Heres what i got so far... I tried making some arms or something come out of the eye sockets, but i think it hurt the "read" of the skull too much...
http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n261/captain_sealegs/skullbeast.jpg

[Lege1]

Some awesome work in here so far! Here's my progress so far...just having fun and trying new things as always...

[AdrianNagorski]

Sealegs: Thanks man, yeah it took me awhile to figure out what to do, every one seemed to do hands, and eyes so i'm like hmmm . . . . . . then i thought i got to elevate me game if i ever wanna come close to you guys as well as hopefully one day work as an artist.
i'm liking the rendering and pretty much you can tell its a skull, very cool, the eye ball isnt visible you would make it look really creepy if you put like plain white eyes or eyes looking in wrong directions or oozing out, i'm liking your rendering its really pro.


GoldenSerpent: Thank you for the help it real helped me, i looked at random fetal positions and this is what i came up with, yeah i'm gonna use the story board in my painting, it helps the over all design, i might move the bottem image over a bit more to the right.
I love your rendering, i hope i can come close to that somehow, the colour blending is great as well, the hand is pretty pale i guess when its detached from the body it would turn pale right? (greenish decayed . . nah just a mention.) your design is great i like it BUT the hand seems a bit plain? Did you just add colours on the fly, or did you start a layer of values first? using a hard brush all the way? Im a bit clueless smoothing out my colors, youll see how mine turns out then i'm sure you could please assisst me some more if you have time later.


(lark: Thanks MAN! I was a bit worried, now i have to try and fill my creature more into the page so it becomes the focus or else its against the rules right?, but i'm trying aaarrr.. . . .



So i spend an hour or two reworking the layout before i start with colours, im gonna stay up all nite working on this got class in the morning but i dont care i wanna make this thing so picture perfect its gonna make your eyes bleed, pleasure . . . .
T.O.P (time of post) 21.56pm Tuesday in Australia :yayca:

[AdrianNagorski]

im tired. . . gonna try blend now (struggling i am)

[Lege1]

AdrianNagorski: That is such a sick fucking concept! lol I like that little storyline action going on there and so gruesome with the spine exploding from the back. Feel so bad for that chick,hahah

[Taiski]

Thanks for le comments guys.
Aahhhh, I've been putting this off for so long!
Heres some development anyway. I'll get started on the final image but I might not be able to finish on time...

http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i346/Taiski/bodypartwip1.jpg

David79 and GoldenSerpent amazing! What more can I say.
AdrianNagorski Yeah, I love that sequence drawing, but I think you gave yourself a pretty tough challenge d: It's looking good though!
Lege1 Really creepy, I can imagine those little fingers just wriggling around urgh gives me the heebiejeebies.
Sealegs Lookin' 'mazing! You could have the legs just sorta resting in the eyesockets?
J-Sun Cute :D I don't think theres no need to make them more menacing, although I can imagine that would make it a bit more popular on the polls (maybe?)
Ryansumo I think it's reading too much as just a squid at the moment. maybe make the leg look more fleshy?
Nailbiter I think the head chicken is looking the most solid as a design, but conceptwise... the butt is best :D
Artiphats Eyeball monsters, love em. I think you're going in a pretty good direction with this.
Heimdayel I can't really see the it flying, and I'm not too convinced with the thumb-teeth. Nice mix of parts though, I think it needs to be more realised as a creature. Think about balance and proportions. By the way it was a real shame your submission for the polls didn't show up properly, it was such a nice piece and deserved so many more votes.
RobPowell Looking wicked. Just the colour to go yeah? I think you should think about how your creature is going to sit on the page.
ColdDegree Your dude is looking hideous! In a good way :D

I'll make more comments on the rest a bit later.

[GoldenSerpent]

AdrianNagorski: Hm that's going to be a lot of work trying to detail the whole storyboard, since the first panel is pretty basic maybe turn her into a silhouette and get rid of the background. You could even stick with your medical diagram type 2nd and third panel and draw out just her respiratory system to better foreshadow the process. Since the 2nd panel seems to be still showing her inhaling the spores you could get rid of the second panel and move the drawing of her crouched up to the top row. This would leave the whole bottom panel to focus on the close up of your creature.
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I used the smudge tool a lot more on this one to smooth things out. And yes for this I used a grey scale drawing to make sure my values were working. I like to use grey scale if I'm drawing something I'm not as familiar with drawing or know I have problems with (aka a detail shot of a hand). Most of your questions on my technique can probably be answered by this tutorial I did for an older COW:http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=220601
Hope that all helps! :)

Taiski: Looking good, I really like how you drew the brain's mouth. I think you should round out the bottom of the tail closest to the viewer, probably taking it out to the edge of the shadow would look better. Hope that explanation made sense.

[AdrianNagorski]

GoldenSerpent: Wow, you just blew my image out of the water again! I've actually seen your tutorial before but I thanked Si-Swe for it ,snap, Its really good thanks for that. Its hard for me to stick to a specific technique but i'll really try to buckle down and learn yours, I love penciling tho. I wish I had more time!!!!!
In frame one i wanted to show where the spores originated from. But keeping the women a silhouette is a great idea, does it give less emotional ties to her later on if you see her spine ripped out cause initially she was just a silhouette?

Yeah so went to sleep at one in the morning, i'm gonna end up submitting this one. Hopefully its rendered enough and meets all the rules if not that doesn't matter, its a learning experience. :yayca:

[David79]

GoldenSerpent: thx and same for you too, same opinion Sealegs the veins are top on, not sure if i want grab her hand :P keep up!
Sealegs: thx budy, iup better not using the eye socket let the arms like that i pretty sure you gona do good creepy eyes :D perapse like a evil crab?!
Taiski: lololol when i saw your entry i laught so much good job one point duno if u are for a evil look or funny but the eyes make it kind a friendly and funny, mating your creature with mine they can make strangely cute baby :P eheheh !

mine for tonight add some colors and texture to see how is work!

[Lege1]

David79: I like where that is going amigo!

[NailBiterMR]

Wow! : O really cool designs everyone : D!!!

Working on the bug hand right now, still in progress, if anyone has some critiques please let me know : D

[Rob Powell]

David79: Looking sweet so far dude! Some really good anatomy going on, as well as so creepiness in your creature! You def should add some brighter colours around the head/crotch/place area, especially the eyes.

AdrianNagorski: Pretty neat little panels, remember to focus more on the design of the creature so you should make the top panels a bit smaller so it doesn't take away from your creature's design, also consider the anatomy, the spine has hundreds of tiny muscles that hold it to the back as well as all the ribs, if the creature was able to rip itself out of a human's back you should show these muscles rip, or snap off of it as it pries itself free. Another thing you could consider is instead of showing a close up of the creature ripping out of her back, you should show the creature in it's entirty after it is completely out of it's back and then place the other part with the other panels.

Taiski: looks neat so far! The placement of the tail could be a little better so it's more clear to the viewer.

Lege1: Looks freaky, doesn't look like it'd be very well balanced the way it is positioned though

Sealegs: That's just plain awesome, dude! Really like the crab-like posture it has.

GoldenSerpent: Really cool. I like the transulscency of the skin as well as all the small little details in the mouth area.

J-Sun: DAWWW! ^^ I think they are just fine, just becasue a body part detaches froma human body and turns into a creature doesn't mean they have to be horrific creatures.

ryansumo: Interesting take on the subject. How about instead of adding fins to the foot, you could alter the structure of the foot so it has more webbing, kinda like frog feet, just be sure to keep it so the design still looks like it originated from a human leg

NailBiterMR: I like the head chicken the best, haha. I'd be pretty funny if you made his ears into wings, or something winglike.

artiphats: Really neat looking eye, it'd be cool to see how you alter it to form a creature

heimdayel: Kool idea, but as somebody stated, the fingers alone would make flying rather difficult

Here's some progress on my eye hand creature...thing...started painitng in the colours but if feel I might be mucking this one up, but I'll continue working on it to see if I can still salvage it
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[emerging]

nice topic! and some nice art already

[ColdDegree]

ryansumo wow really good so far but i think compositional wise it can look better

AdrianNagorski pretty cool are you going to enter it like a panel?

J-Sun i hope you keep em that cute lol

David79 holy crap that looks uber awesome lol are you going to keep the line drawing?

Rob Powell good rendering so far

Taiski it looks really good so far keep the smily mouth

SealegsI LOVE the use of the skull

anyways i worked on mine more :]

[Austin Smith]

Hey what day are these due by?

[ColdDegree]

The 27 today or tomorrow depending on yo time but dont worry another one is coming up

[NailBiterMR]

Heres what i think will be my final. Kinda screwed myself over by being unorgainsed and messy D:. bleh.
Might try and rework it a bit before the deadline tommorow.


P.S.

SeaLegs and David79, i want to be inside of your brains.

[Lege1]

I made some progress, still have a bit more to go for where I want it to be. Great creatures in here so far. :yayca:

[ryansumo]

J-sun: those creatures are adorable, don't change a thing!
Lege1: Good stuff jsut keep tightening it up a bit more.
David79; Those are really coming together, but maybe change the values up for the creatures so they stand out a little more?
Sealegs: Thanks fo rthe tip, your skullcrab is looking pretty badass.
GoldenSerpent: Amazing rendering. That vein really draws my eyes to the creature!

Based on some comments from you peeps decided to give this another stab. More of a shrimp/squid/leg creature now than before. :)

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h100/endlessthirteen/artwork/cow222squidleg.jpg

[AdrianNagorski]

David79: I smell P**** RUN!! Your idea is great i can imagine a cheezy film full of P**** human eaters! Good work as always.

Lege1: Your hand thing is very creepy, i like your rendering, background looks great! How about making the teeth sharper?

NailBiterMR: Its actually not bad, reminds me of a sea shell nice.

Rob Powell: Thanks for your comment you are very helpful seriously, I should of worked a separate frame in there with the creature crawling away from the corpse, unfortunelty time doesnt permit.
Your image looks great the colors seem a bit de-saturated, hmm its a great design the eye balls need to seem rounder too, somebody mentioned highlights before but I'm sure you got it under control any way probably when your reading this your almost done LOL. Man there are so many cool weekly activities its freaken hard to keep up with all of them, gotta pick one of two max per week its a shame tho, wish i could work way faster.

ColdDegree: Yip, its risky i might get kicked out of the poll, but fingers crossed hopefully i dont. your creature looks like a brain explosion its freaky and looks hyper sonic, are you gonna add any motion effects to it like motion blur??

ryansumo: your original idea was great you could of just made the face meaner, but this new angles got more intensity to it, very cool makes me appreciate me legs more!

[Lege1]

Taiski: Hahahah,lol…heebyjeeebies for you? Mosef, those fingers are nasty, I am glad I go the creepy thing across in this illustration indeed. I imagine this thing kind of just hopping and crawling around really disturbingly.

Rob Powell: Thanx man, I actually imagined this thing working much like a snake with the positioning of a breakdancer doing a 90. This thing may not be able to travel entirely upright, but I wanted to make something that maybe stands up then falls down and just moves around all fuct up,lol. The whole entire creature is basically a muscle so I believe it would definitely have the strength to do these things.

Ryan Sumo: Definitely going to be tightening this up a lot more indeed.

Adrian Nagorski: Thank you very much on the compliments towards my current progress. I really want to give more of an eerie feel to this creature by keeping the mouth more in relation to human and not some ferocious piranha. I was very tempted to make the teeth sharp on this one but really decided to hold back for that creepy look.

[ColdDegree]

Adrian Nagorski dont wory bro in the earlier post it says we can combine more than one body part rather than focus on one

[brambor]

You guys rock! This reminds me how many rounds I've missed.

[tsabu]

Hey guys, nice works everyone :)
I wanted to join these round but sadly had to much basic work in these week.

Anyway i did a fast wip - idea was to make creature rather funny than scary, hopefully i will finish it soon and put in my sketchbook.

[Taiski]

I'm at a point right now where I'm not certain if I'll finish this on time...
Does anyone have any advice on what I could do to paint a bit quicker? Some cheap tricks perhaps? I feel like I'm working into the image a bit too much.

http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i346/Taiski/bodypartwip2.jpg

[Lege1]

Taiski: Good things take time to create but judging by your most recent post you could probably take a steps towards to opportunities to quicker painting.

1. Work the image as a whole. It often works best to block in all your colors with a LARGE brush and ignore the urge to want to go in and start detailing shit out.

2. After blocking everything in go ahead and select a brush of choice that you feel will serve justice to conduct your blending.

3. Keep your main rendering brushes simple. Often a hard round, soft round, and chalk usually can get the job done. You can use all the other brushes for texturing and effects.

4. If you feel comfortable working from color straight from the beginning this can also help speed up your process. It took me years personal to become comfortable with this as I always used to render in black and white to nail all the values and then slowly bleed in my colors with layer modes like color, overlay, multiply, soft light, and hard light. It's all what you are comfortable with but you must nail the values well and make sure you describe the forms which you seem to do well from what I see above.

5. Keep your brush settings (opacity / flow) simple in the beginning of the painting. You can then get more specific with digital glazing and and subtle value shifts later on.

There is tons of stuff to know about how to create an image so it's common sense to know that by painting and drawing as much as possible and learning as much as you can about image making that your speed will tie in with all this as well as your style of painting. It really all comes from understanding things in the past and putting in work =) Cheers!

[GoldenSerpent]

GoldenSerpent: Wow, you just blew my image out of the water again! I've actually seen your tutorial before but I thanked Si-Swe for it ,snap, Its really good thanks for that. Its hard for me to stick to a specific technique but i'll really try to buckle down and learn yours, I love penciling tho. I wish I had more time!!!!!
In frame one i wanted to show where the spores originated from. But keeping the women a silhouette is a great idea, does it give less emotional ties to her later on if you see her spine ripped out cause initially she was just a silhouette?

I'm glad the tutorial helped you but don't feel obligated to learn exactly how I draw, I myself continually try to find better techniques. I really recommend experimenting on your own to find out what best works for you as well as dissecting how other people work. About the viewer having emotional ties to her, I think if you want to have people feel for her on an emotional level then you don't need the process/internal anatomy shots, maybe just one scene with her jogging happily as she passes through the cloud of spores and then cut to her as the creature is emerging. This might just be me but I feel like showing the full process already starts making it a bit clinical and thus emotionally detached. I think either route is fine though just remember that at least for this challenge the creature is the main focus.

I'm at a point right now where I'm not certain if I'll finish this on time...
Does anyone have any advice on what I could do to paint a bit quicker? Some cheap tricks perhaps? I feel like I'm working into the image a bit too much.


That's looking really cool, I hope you can get this done on time. Lege1 already covered some great tips. Another thing to keep in mind is that you should prioritize which areas of the creature need to get done first. For example the whole thing needs to look unified so you have to rough in the shape of the tail and arms just so they don't look so flat and isolated from the rest of the creature, but they shouldn't have priority for detailing. The head is the most important part so that should be your main priority for detailing. While it can be hard to leave part of the picture at what seems rough compared to your detailed parts it can actually be helpful to the composition and will lead the viewer's eyes to the important detailed parts like the head.

Also utilize the smudge tool for quickly blending things together if you aren't already.
I hope this helps!

[artiphats]

didn't have time to put any work on it at all yesterday, but trying to get it to descent point in the next few hours...

currently:

[Taiski]

Thanks for the great tip Lege1 and GoldenSerpent, hopefully i can get the image to a decent level by submission. About custom brushes, I don't really use them, would you recommend that I do?

[Si_Swe]

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[Si_Swe]

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[skodone]

uh dammit just downloaded my scanned linework arghh...
ok ill finish it anyways :P next week new luck