I spent about an hour playing in Photoshop to finish the Wormbug's linework and coloring. The flatting stage went faster than normal as I already had the silhouette. I played around with a cool color palette for the creature. Instead of my normal flat shading with tones...

Bug creature design, work in progress. Started it as a rough-sketch iPad painting and I found the creature looked too blocky/brick-wallish to communicate clearly in silhouette (that stage isn't depicted in the screencap). I refined the silhouette in Inkpad (image on the...

More practice with making character silhouettes! I've become rather taken with this outer-shape approach of designing readable characters by establishing a strong silhouette. I've doing this via Sketchbook Pro, pencil & paper, and the iPad app Inkpad...

This design is based on what I learned in Krishna Sadasivam's Creating Crazy Characters class at Lean Into Art.More practice to come, this time I tried to do all the steps in Sketchbook Pro which led to some improvisation on the silhouette step. The characters silhouette...