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Saturday 15 May 2010

Creature Design Sketches

Below: some of my concept drawings
Concept sketches for Creature Character. I've started by trying to draw free-form shapes - a technique demonstrated by Nick Pugh in his originality in design series for Gnomon and Feng Zhu in his robot design series. He begins with half a forest of paper on his desk, on which he doodles upon until his arm is totally exercised of design and shape cliches. At this point they're just a set of squiggles. he then goes back through the pile and evaluates the drawings he's made to find interesting shapes that catch his eye.


Once he's amassed a shortlist he then goes in and further renders, defining arms, limbs head etc. He ends up with completely random and original creature drawings. because the creature I'm designing is something microscopic that lives in the carpet, a bit of artistic licence is afforded so I felt this technique was pertinent. The following sketches are what I came up with...





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