Project 3: Monster Maker

For this project, I played around sketching different animals combined together but didn't like any of them. I wanted something that looked more like a monster and less like an animal. I started with some basic features I knew I wanted to use. I tried a single eye as the main feature and I knew I wanted ram-like horns.

First sketch

Here I tried to add legs like a bird but felt it made the body too heavy.

After some changes, this was the final image I decided on.

Traced onto watercolor paper..

For the body, I started with an initial layer of watercolor and then added colored ink over the watercolor to give it bolder color in places. Sections I wanted to stay white, like his teeth and eye, I applied a mask to prevent the color from bleeding into the white spaces.

The horns and claws I used watercolor only. The base layer of the grass is watercolor with ink used to define the blades of grass and create texture. The sky is a light wash of blue watercolor so it gives it subtle color and doesn't distract from the rest of the image.