Creature Of the Week #187: Murderous Intent-Gnixxian Assassin - Part II

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As you can see the concept has been fleshed out much more since yesterday. I still need to refine the area where his back lets connect to his torso but other than that it's looking pretty good. I've created a time-lapse gif of my work today, I was only able to add five images (out of my seventeen layers) so I'll walk you through each one to give you a better idea of what I went through.

1. This is the image I thumbnailed yesterday, resized and placed on a white background - nothing special here.

2. I added two colour balance layers in Photoshop to mess

around with colour schemes. The idea for this creature is that he blends in with the lush, al

ien environment of his planet and once something gets too close it whips out with its stinger-face and injects venom into them. I could have gone for any colour scheme given this logic since the planet is alien the flora could be any colour but I decided upon pink/purple because purple is a colour naturally associated with poison and pink works nicely with it.

3. Took away that rib-cage area of the creature and gave it more of a prominent feature on its stomach which could be used to hold venom.

4. The arms were looking really wonky at this point so I decided to increase the size of his forearm plates and duplicated his right arm over

to replace his left arm. I also added some stripes along his face and neck to give him some more visual appeal and added some more colour to his chest area.

5. The colour has now been removed from the chest area! The arms were still looking wonky so I moved his right elbow to a point where it woul

d make sense and now he looks much more comfortable just standing there. I blocked in the colour of his forearm plates since they were annoying me and I shall work on them a bit more in my next session.

A couple of people over on the ConceptArt.org forums seemed to like my A thumbnail so if I get time I'd like to render him out in the same way as this creature here.

Stay tuned for Part III of Murderous Intent-Gnixxian Assassin.