DRAWING CHALLENGE : LAVA MONSTER

The last weeks assignment was to produce a character drawing of a rock / lava creature. This would mean i would have to get to grips with specific colours and contrasts etc. I followed my normal character design workflow for this obtain through the Steam punk and Frog Character drawing assignments. 

LAVA MONSTER SILHOUETTES.

I produced my normal silhouettes page but included some more animalistic designs as well as my humanoid ones. I decided my best silhouette was number three and isolated it and placed it into my template for character design and got to work. 

CLEANED UP SILHOUETTE.

This silhouette was already pretty clean, All I did was cut further up into the arms to show the different shapes.

LINE SKETCH OVER SILHOUETTE.

I produced this line sketch pretty quickly filling in the shapes with chunks of rocks, due to the rough texture I decided rather than cleaning up the lines to use these over the top of some loose shading to show the different sides of the rocks. 

LINE DRAWING WITH SHADOWS.

First I covered the whole surface over the silhouetted in a grey, I then lowered the opacity of the lines to work with and filled in the shadowed darker side of the rocks, convexly to the norm I  made the upper side of the rocks in shadow as I see this creature walking over lava and therefore being lit from below. 

LINE DRAWING WITH SHADOWS 2.

I upped the line-work to check that this looked OK and then proceeded to highlight the under sides and edges.

SHADED DESIGN.

After adding the highlights I used he blend brush tool to blend the edges together so there was less of a hard edge. 

SHADED DESIGN 2.

I added some even darker grey to some parts and cracks to further bring the design out. At this stage I also added a second silhouette with a brown tinge to it. 

EFFECTS TAB.

I created a new layer style and using the effects made something that looked like lava with a white and bright yellow inner glow and a orange outer glow, I played around with this until I got it right for my design.

FINAL DESIGN.

FINAL DESIGN ON BACKGROUND.

FINAL DESIGN ON BACKGROUND 2.

These are images of my final design, I am very happy with this outcome and my use of the layers and effects to create lava cracks. I have saved this for use again.