Creature Design

Other than my character, i need a creature for my graphic novel to help tell the chosen piece of story. Due to time restraint i didn't want to go into as much concept detail as my character as i spent to long. What i chose to do was to create a creature out of reference images and piece different creatures together using my drawings skills. I already had an idea that would also relate to my character. A lizard like creature would relate to the armour that the hunter is wearing it also could then appear realistic and not a creature totally made up and alien like.

My created creature:


The look and style i ended up with was a large spiky lizard that is potentially poisonous. i did add detail to the creature and because this graphic novel is meant to relate to a game i also had to think both how it could attack and defend. a well armoured back and bone tail it is dangous creature but i liked the creature to have a more stealth approach. I coloured it a green/purple so it would have better ability to hide in large forests and woods. It would be fast and quiet but very brutal to its prey.

I wanted it to be more of a grab and bite creature so that its tail is mainly defence, what i did was create a sack on the neck of the creature to make it more frog and poison like, it also connotes that it would be able to spit or slime the poison out so a bite would be most treating.