An update on Byron

A quick update on where I am with Byron. I'm really starting to like this character, and as I paint him I'm starting to get a sense of his character and personality.

So far I've worked out that Byron is the kind of character that would put on quite a cold act, and would be rather aloof and sarcastic. Bad tempered, Byron would how ever fight to the death for someone he decided was worthy of his friendship and loyalty.

Trying to paint this one a bit differently for once in that I'm doing the shading and highlighting first, and then I'll see how colour looks over the top of it. Don't really mind if colour doesn't work as I quite like it grey scale, although of course I'd need to indicate some how what colour each piece of material is like. I'll get round to it once I finish the shading on his boots and the over all highlights. Will finish that today hopefully.

More mutants

These are going to be tests to find out which style I want to do my botanical like drawings in. I haven't painted them yet, but I thought I'd put them up here first just in case they get ruined in the process.

As they were all people once, I have started naming the mutants. I don't really know why other than it gives them a bit more sense of personality or what they might once have been like.

The one below is Mildrid, and obviously it/she is more feminine than usual. Although I don't think there would any gender differences in mutants, I did realise that every single one of the more humanoid ones look masculine. I wanted a change and so Mildrid was drawn :D

These guys are Harry and Melvin. Harry has control of the body, but annoyingly for him, Melvin screams constantly. I wanted to make a mutant that would be quite a bit more disturbing than usual, so I thought of what would freak me out the most. And that is an extra head constantly screaming that sounds far too human.

And here we have Lucy and Petter, who were husband and wife before they were melded together. Obviously being a Giant mutant, there were many more people that were melded into the same creature. But if any personality and memories remain, it's those of Lucy and Petter.

The little stick figure is to show size comparison, please ignore the fact that the little man is actually holding an ice cream in order to tempt Lucy from eating him.

I'll update these guys again once I've painted them in different styles, which I will then evaluate.

Sea beasties

So I've decided to move away from land animals and start designing other types of creatures, mainly aquatics and insects.

These are just two quick doodles that I started the other day. I've since developed the one above into a full creature, but it's the one below that I like the most. I'll definitely be doing more with this species.

I've just realised that I'm going to have the horrible task of trying to give all these different creatures species names. That's going to fun.

Songs of the Siren

So whilst doodling randomly these guys appeared on the page. I love the legends of Sirens, so decided to develop the image on the right further into a new creature.

They first appear as beautiful women with long flowing hair and angelic voices. They also have glowing orbs along their arms which they can pulsate light through to add to further entice their prey towards them. Once their hapless victims are within reach their faces and bodies distort and they become hideous and terrifying monsters. They can open their mouths wide enough to devour a grown man within moments.






They are extremely territorial and will attack each other on sight, which is why they appear so scarred in their true forms.
These guys would probably be quite a common sight within the game, and would congregate near larger populations of humans. Their presence would terrify the populace and would cause vast areas of land to be almost totally unexplored.

Female centaur

Ok, so the anatomy is awful, but you get the general idea. Women are generally smaller and lighter built than the males, and their manes and hair also tend to be much longer too. Nudity is not a taboo for this species, and so the women generally don't cover their breasts or stomachs.

The top image is also an idea for a helm of some sort, but in general I really don't like this page. Saying that, it could be used as a base for future ideas so that's why I've put it up here.

Forest grower

I was really inspired after flicking through the Art of Guild Wars 2, and really wanted to draw a forest spirit of some sort. And this guy was the result. He is ancient, and very slow moving, and will spend long periods of time growing new sections of forest. He eats dead or damaged parts of woodland and jungle, and then replaces them with new life, keeping the forest healthy and strong.



And would you look at that, I actually attempted a background!

Gryphons?

Some potential designs for gryphons, looking at different types of birds instead of just the regular eagles.
First one is based on an owl, and although I don't like how it's drawn, I do like the idea.




Which is how this one came about. I'm much happier with this image, and want to use it further on in my project.



The bottom image was just trying out a different type of bird, this one looks more like a stork of some sort.