Here are some of the last sketches I did with the creative habit. More inspiration from Warframe and The Last Of Us "Clickers".

I picked two separate drawings and painted them in SAI. I really like the design of these monster beings and I'm happy that my creative habit lead me to make them.

I figured through this creative habit, I developed a specific theme, rather than drawing Lovecraft's creatures. I made abominations of my own-- humanoid monsters with distorted heads. A combination of influence of Warframes and Pacific Rim's kaijus, they are a breed of monster all their own. 

For the last post I'd like to clean up some of the sketches I've done and color them digitally.

This week I photographed my work. It's not my favorite thing to do, but I know I ought to practice and get better at it, since I won't always have a good scanner near me.

I played around with different monster types- humanoid, beastly... I tried doing different styles and having different influences from each one.

The top left figure is my favorite one on this page. Inspired by Junji Ito's "Uzumaki", a horror manga about a town obsessed with spirals. I love the look of my yellow and black mircrons, but it is not an easy way to doodle.

For these couple of pages, I wanted to experiment with the character Cthylla, the daughter of Cthuhlu. Sometimes she is depicted as a giant eight-eyed octopus with wings, or as a humanoid tentacle creature. She was said to be a possible bride for Hastur, so I imagined she was probably a beauty.

 

These pages were based off of warframes, from the video game Warframe with a combination of Pacific Rim's kaiju monsters. I love the deformed and inhuman look to their masks/faces.

I wanted to draw some cat or predator monsters, but I wasn't looking at any reference so it was difficult to get the animals to look right. I also wanted to try mixing the Lovecraftian tentacle beasts with kitties, and they turned out kind of goofy-- but I like them!

I think for my final post I will clean up some of my favorite drawings and ink them digitally. I'd like to make the best monsters shine.

I'm a little unsure of what I ought to be posting this week, but I wanted to show off what I have done so far. I spent about an hour on every page and read some reference before hand. I realized what I want to do with this creative habit is to get better at concept design, specifically for monsters in this case. I don't draw a lot of varied things, so I think this process will benefit me in the long run. 

This first page was for the Mi-Go from Lovecraft's "The Whisperer in Darkness".

These drawings are a mix of different Cthulu Mythos creatures, featuring small Nyarlathotep worshipers playing flutes.

This last page has two of Nyarlathotep's forms. I think I will draw more of him next because he is a shape-shifting creature with many forms. 

I also wanted to show off some concept sketches I did earlier. These doodles are based off of Pokemon and Kaiju from Pacific Rim.

So I was doing some research and leisurely looking up H.P. Lovecraft's creatures and I stumbled upon this blog, http://yog-blogsoth.blogspot.com/. Cleverly named, Mike Bukowski's blog features his illustrations based of H.P. Lovecraft's writings. I was so inspired by this, I decided what I'll do my creative habit project on. I'll read a different story for each week and draw/design creatures from the story. Now I'm super excited!!!

New Project: Creative Habit

I know I have a strong creative habit to draw and doodle every single day, but I usually don' follow a theme. I get bored very easily drawing the same subject over and over again, so I'm kind of worried about this project. I need to pick something that is really different and interests me...

I might as well post some of my sketchbook pages here to prove how much I draw... which is a lot.

These are only a few pages that I liked from my most recent sketchbook. I usually draw people, animals and monsters but they only follow a theme on a single page. I do a lot of emotional drawings, but I don't really want that to be my theme.

I'm thinking I'd like to do fairy tales or H.P. Lovecraft's stories and draw creatures from those. I really love making up designs for monsters from writing since the look isn't extremely defined by a visual. Right now that is my best idea but I'm sure to talk to my peers and discover other things as well.

Very relevant and meaningful work for the project...