Spleen Creature

Just letting everyone know I had a lot of other artwork to do this week, I finished my monster this weekend but I am having scanner issues! Don't Worry, It will be there soon!

Thanks!

The drawing is lost. I cannot find it. The creature was based on the idea of being quite small, almost tick like. Pretty much a single bloated bean shaped body with a mouth and eyes. Long climbing claws are attached to lanky but taught limbs. No more than the size of a large rat makes it a vicious agile creature. One is large enough to suck pints of blood from a human, in groups they are extremely deadly draining life force from their victim. When full, quite easy to dispatch of...minus the large mess off course.

Undead Steed

UNDEAD STEED

This weeks monster is a zombified stallion. The concept mainly arose by thinking of many games, novels or movies where a character rides a notable mount. A necromancer style character came to mind. I thought to myself about different steeds a necromancer could use. In all honesty, a flesh weaver of sorts could stitch any parts together to make any mount he wanted. At first this made me think a horse was a lame choice but I thought through it. Perhaps there is more professionalism in riding an equine breed rather than...lets say... a rhino half stitched to an elephant with a hint of giraffe. A flying mount crossed my mind but lets be honest, without a parachute or safety features flying mounts can take a very long time to master. There will be a time and place, probably for a spectre style piece instead, where there isn't much of a physical body to worry about being dropped from high in the air.

So I settled on a horse. I went zombie because every horse that is evil tends to just have red eyes or is skeletal. One could argue horses are too "pretty" or "elegant" to be a zombie. Well.. too bad. The image in my head was a winner, disgusting as it was. My thinking process started with antlers and more hoofed animal accessories. It just wasn't working so I changed to horns, believable and balanced rather than obnoxious and heavy (Yes zombies have strange capabilities of strength, but no need to weigh down a horse!). As I detailed the rest of it, I stuck with a theme of random growing horns, plenty of rot, and some stitching. Oh, and the occasional boils. The saddle was sort of inspired by an old horse drawn coach, of the 1800's. I wanted something more antique looking and less cowboy.

A few fun details to note on this piece. For pure irony I broke this horse front leg, which is held together by wrappings. For those who don't know, once a horse leg is broken it's a goner. This necromancer took a very healthy horse because it just happened to have a fatal accident. I also hide my symbol of my initials in every piece, a "k" and "g" that are combined together to form one letter of sorts. (this one is easy to find). And the face on the rump was a last minute and unexpected touch.

That is it for the week! I'll have another one coming soon!

Starting My Blog

Well I have never even dreamed of starting a blog! I wanted to start this up because I felt the need to get my concept art and creative mind out in the internet. Too often have I designed something, created an image, or built some monster and no one is there to see it or understand my thinking process. I'm happy to begin, but not sure where to start. Once I understand how this blog thing works, I'm sure I might fall in love with the idea of talking about my self. My very own diary! I'll be trying to put up a new piece of concept art, with descriptions about every detail, every week. Some might be a sketch or other pieces could be in color.

Here is a picture of my handsome self and an art sample that gives one an idea of what I have in that brain of mine...

 And here we go... ENJOY!