Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Basilisk


Here's the project I'm currently working on in digital drawing, as it stands right now. We have to illustrate a mythological beast from written text as we would perceive it. My creature is the Basilisk: a beast with the head of a chicken, the tale of a serpent, and thorned wings that turns people to stone, poisons/dries up rivers, and creates deserts wherever it lands. I decided to make the Basilisk embody the desert that it creates. I've still got almost a month before it's due, so I plan to really knock this one out of the park. This isn't the best representation of this image. When I copied it to a GIF file, the compression jumbled some of the colors into weird amorphous blob shapes (and they don't look like that as a PSD file). I'm trying to work with a relatively limited palette (Blues, Greens, Red/Browns, no black so far, and minimal white).

2 comments:

Derek C. said...

HOLEEEEEEEEE SHIT bro! I actually really like this as is.
As always your rendering ability is very impressive, and I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product.

Rendez said...

Heh heh, thanks for the enthusiasm Derek!