This is the final post for the menagerie project. I'm ashamed to say I didn't finish the way I wanted to. I should have spent more time on the final drawings rather than so much time on planning. 

The slime girl is the closest to being "finished" I'm not really pleased with it, but it is the product of about 6 hours of work. I added her skeleton under her jelly-like body last and I think that is my favorite part about this piece along with her hair.

I didn't finish the maned wolf girl in regards of shading. The canvas is 3000x2400 pixels, which is the largest I've ever drawn at. I usually do much smaller digital drawings, so this was a struggle for me. I wanted to challenge myself but it looks like I bit off more than I could chew.

The other girls I wanted to do are sad looking sketches right now, along with a faerie girl I barely started coloring. 

I feel disappointed in myself because I really thought I had this one in the bag, so I underestimated how much time it would really take. I was busy with trying my best on other school work that I didn't devote as much time as I should have to this one. 

I do want to finish these after this time and get them printed out as well. I was really excited about this project and I don't want my idea to go to waste just because I have poor time-management skills.

 

I started two illustrations of individual monster girls, the first the maned wolf and the second the slime girl. I finished the line art and put some flat colors on the maned wolf to see how she looked. I don't intend to keep those colors on her but it's a start. I really want to keep the original color palette I chose but I'm not too sure how I'm going to work it out. 

I drew a maned wolf girl and I really like her.
The second drawing is really large because I plan on doing a final illustration with that sketch.

These are what maned wolves look like:

I put together a height chart of the characters I know I want to use; crocodile girl, griffin girl and slime girl. I really want to have a tall skinny character and a petite character, but I haven't been successful with character designs. I first tested out bugs and mantises, which was what the last post's sketches were. I've tried doing a maned wolf chick but I'm not too happy with the random assortment of doodles. If I create any more characters that I like, I'll be sure to post them.

Still need to figure out what I want the other monster girls to look like. I sketched out some more ideas.

Here are some images that have inspired me or I use as reference to draw my monster girls. Credit is under each set of pictures.

Some monster girl illustrations by Baruyon.

Model and clothes by Georgina.

Art by Bec.

I figured it would be easier for me to do final illustrations with fleshed out characters, since I could use their personalities to create a more emotional piece.
I drew a crocodile girl earlier and I want to keep her. She's got a muscular, thick body type and an "older sister" kind of personality. I've been thinking of naming her Georgia.

I have also been planning out color palettes. I want to use an analogous group revolving around blue-green. 

I'd like to use as few colors as possible, but I do want deep blues for shadows and light mints for highlights. 

I sketched some character designs for the monster girls. I figured I'd have a better idea of what to do for the final illustrations if I defined some characters first. The griffin girl is my favorite out of these sketches.

I spent a long time sketching and doodling, thinking of different monsters. I drew some robots, but I didn't like how they turned out. I might try again to draw some more, since I do like robots.