OMG! I really cant get into the habit of blogging!!

It's been about 5-6 weeks since we first started the "Character Development" unit and its not like i haven't had the time, because i've had a fair bit of time free, but i just cannot get into the habit of blogging my work...gonna have to work on that...

=( This is gonna be a rather BIG post i think...

*sigh*





After starting the "Character Development" unit officially i decided i wasn't going to carry on making a werewolf, i wanted something a bit more original, something i haven't seen alot of times and something i haven't attempted before..
So that threw humans out the window...well...almost...

I wanted to do something more bug like as i had never even thought of attempting this so i started drawing simple sketches, just lines n circles for joints...

It was at first going to be female, but after somebody's comments about adding 14 pairs of boobs...lol
I decided it may be best to make it male with in mind i started to draw a few "basic" iterations, none of them were highly detailed, in fact they didn't have faces...but i was planning to do that bit a little later on as a separate thing.


I only did about 4 -5 pages on it, the last page has more monstrous designs, they lost all humanoid likeness to them, this wasnt planned...it just happened as i was going.

I wasnt really into the unit at this point so i didnt really care for detail, but the basic's were there for me...

In this i tried to keep the lower half more bug-like, the first ones has humanoid hand, allowing it to grasp things liek tools or weaponry, it also has large spike like legs, they extend upwards from the body and connect to a big spike like foot.
The second one has more crab like pincers, im not sure why to be honest, just a change...crabs aren't even insects either....what was going through my head?, to contradict the strange hands, i studied spider legs and used those.

The second page...
Uhm...yehh....i didnt like either of these designs at all...
I went for a more centipede like body, multi sectioned, flat, long and short legs.
The first one is pretty much the same as the 1st one on the last page, except it now has small spiked feel and another connection, it also has 2 more feet on the front. The hands are still humanoid except they now only have 3 fingers instead of 4, the fingers also end as claws rather than a hand.

The second drawing  has 8 very short and armor plated legs, i dont know why i made them armor plated, i guess it was because i was thinking about a bugs exo-skeleton. The hands turned into some strange kind of graspers, they have 1 big finger and 1 small thumb....i dont know what on earth that is going to achieve.

Third page....
By now you will have noticed that i only do 2 drawings per page...i cant draw small images...im just physically incapable of doing it.

Right, drawing 1, i went back to the spider like legs for this 1, as well as the crab claws, this time it has 3 sets of legs instead of 2, making its limbs total to 8, which is alot more spider like. I went back to the pincers as they have the ability to grasp and crush anything they need to.

Drawing 2, 3 sets of legs all spider like with rather small spikes for feet, the arms arm pretty much the same as the legs, this allows it to run with all 8 limbs at fast speed, while still being able to use the arms to skewer food or impale foes.

The 4th page has the more monstrous designs on it, to be honest om not sure where my inspiration came from for these designs, i think the Widowmaker from Resistance: Fall of Man had a fair bit to do with the designs. The second drawing  looks a fair bit like it, the first drawing reminds me alot of an ant for some reason.
Still not sure why....

Head concepts! Oh my god...it was hard to come up with head designs...
I wanted to stay along the humanoid theme but still have alot of monster in it...

Im sure the inspiration for the first head came from the Star Wars creature known as the Acklay, i really liked this head and was going to use it, but it was pointed out to me that it looks alot like the head used on the Spider Alien thing from one of the Christmas Doctor Who episodes. So suffice to say i didnt use it...

I ended up going with the head on the bottom left, it kept a humanoid shape while still having features of a bug, it also has hair which if we had to do a backstory to the character would have helped with an idea of it being a mutated human (Not Spider-man!!).

I decided to go with drawing 2 on page 3 of the body designs but i changed the hands from being more feet to actual hands, the middle drawing is my favourite out of the 3, it seemed to me to be the one i could work with the most. After a bit of thought and help i decided that it should be a warrior, much like a Roman Centurian.
When i decided this i started looking into armours...

The higher ranking officers in the Roman army, acording to some historical documents, wore bigger flashier armor than the foot soldiers to distinguish them, to show that they are to be followed without question. The idea was that my spider centaur thing was a high ranking officer in the army, something went wrong and he...it.....my character had to do the typical thing of sort out some big mess, defeat a big boss and go back to everyday life as if nothing had ever happened.....

This was the design i was going to go with for armor, a chain mail underneath with plate mail armor cloth for the material around the bottom, for the shoulders i was thinking about maybe some form of extremly hard yet light and durable metal, i would have come to a decision on this but i ended up changing my character....i decided to drop the armor and make it more of a monster, i did a few more head sketches to see if there was any other head i could come up with.

I did manage to come up with a fair few monstrous facial designs, i especially liked the head in the middle with the big fangs, i wanted to try and lose near enough all aspects of humanoid features, i wanted to create less of a humanoid creature and more like something out of a horror film that would be "fun" to run into in a dark alley.