This post is a thread of final images and links to posts in which I explore my subject matter as well as the development more in depth. The 3 links under the final piece images will take you to the processes of creating the creature, the tester platter as well as other content that showcases …
Continue reading Process and Practice Final Pieces and Evaluation
The final (and shortest) part of the series! With all the bits and pieces complete, it was time to put on my creature's skin and give it a test run. Pure chaos is what it was. Wearing it and walking around made me realize that I really should not have labeled it as an outfit …
Continue reading Creating my Creature Part 6: Giving it Life.
Or as I like to call it - hell on earth - this has by far been the most exhausting and mentally damning part of my project. Not sure what I was thinking nor whether I was thinking at all when I first decided to do it, but after the first 9 pieces of paper …
Continue reading Creating my Creature Part 5: Crafting the Skin
This is a short post discussing the small side piece that I made for storing and displaying the skin tester pieces. After making them, I created a platter using foil and paper mache. Then added a base for it and edited the interior of the platter. The platter: Platter before the edits Added separators Edited …
With the flesh complete, I figured it's the perfect time to look into the layer that follows - the skin. At the moment of writing this, my costume's base is pretty much complete - the head, the shoulder piece, the hip piece are all done, the only things I would consider missing are the foot …
Continue reading Creating my Creature Part 4: Furthering my Concept and Figuring out the Skin
The year is 2046, it's the 13th of June. A slight, yet noticeable change in the colour of the Sun's surface is reported to the administration over at a NASA station in Greenbelt, Maryland. A distress signal is forwarded to other stations across the country, which, after a couple of minutes, is responded to. The …
This post is being written long after I had decided that pop-up illustration is an "inappropriate" approach to my concept and point of interest. A brief explanation as to why exactly it is that I think pop-up illustrations are not a good approach to take for this project in particular - ever since the module …
December 14th - Screenprinting workshop. For this workshop, I decided I would take a more colourful approach to my creature design so as to truly make use of the capabilities of the screenprint medium. For the composition, I recycled a design I had drawn out for when I thought I would be doing pop-up illustrations. …
Inevitable rambling section: The third entry to the Creature Creation will work as an official entry point to the process of creating the actual look(-s) after all the preparations and other previous developments. This stage I feel was the one I both anticipated and dreaded most, mainly because it meant that I would now have …
This post is the second in the Creature Creation series. The first post was a quick rundown of my criteria and foundation for the designs, it also worked as an entry point to the series in which I will be creating a part of my final piece - the costume(-s). I still am unsure how …
Continue reading Creating my Creature Part 2: Beneath the Flesh
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