Sorry about the whole not posting for a good month, but I think I finally have school and work balanced out so I finally think I can post things again. Irregularly, but more often.
So you all know that I have a fairytale addiction and love anything mythical or just plain weird, right? Cool. I've been taking it a few steps forward: I started making some of my own creatures. I only have about, what, three?, so far, but I really like it. I'll show you the one I've been trying to get out of my head for the past month.
These are called Kudzu Kreepers or Swamp Sloths, on account of their slow, "creeping" speed (They are sometimes called Bog Bears, depending on where you're from. The alliteration is a complete coincidence, I did not do it on purpose!). They are communal creatures, staying together in "families" and only travel long distances when needed. Kreepers are silent and very shy, but are not aggressive, though there have been stories about them drowning or strangling humans with theirs vines if they themselves are threatened. Not recommended as pets, as they are known to grow taller than houses.
I've been out of town a lot recently and down here in the south there's a plant called kudzu vine.It is in no way native to the Americas, actually it hails from Japan. Introduced in 1876, the vine has pretty much taken over the southern US. It can grow a foot a day and can have roots extending eight feet into the ground and is tough to kill with pesticides. While driving, I saw this almost everywhere (though it was far and few between, thank goodness) and I loved it. It's pretty hard not to imagine it as a creature the way it blankets the trees.
As always I start with the understructure:
Then the ink outline. I made it like a blanket was covering it:
Then the greys:
And voila! A Kreeper.
I used the prehistoric Giant Sloth as my animal basis for this creature. It had the small head, long neck combo I thought of originally.
Do I like this? Yes, I most certainly do! It was fun and refreshing, seeing how I haven't really drawn anything for a good two weeks (I know! BLASPHEMY!)
Leave comments and stuff. It's late people, goodnight!
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