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look at them jugs · by **JakeyChan** » 20 Oct 2011, 05:35

The Creature Lab is a weekly activity that puts your monster creation skills to the test against other artists. Each week there will be a topic and description of a beastie, and it is open to as many artists that want to participate. At the end of each week each artists' rendition will be put up and a poll will be created and everyone will vote for the creature they wanna see forever immortalized in the Inkblade Beastiarium. Good luck to all participants and may the best creature win!

Creature Lab #07: Halloween Theme

To celebrate the most awesome holiday ever, Halloween, for this creature activity you will be able to choose one of four classic monsters to recreate/re-design, putting your own unique spin on the archetype. The four are the Vampire, Werewolf, Witch/Warlock, and Fishman. We've all seen them throughout history and movies, done a million times but now is your chance to put your stamp on these legends!

Name: Vampire
Location: Bloodmoon Castle
Description:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire

Name: Werewolf
Location: Howling Hills
Description:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf

Name: Witch/Warlock
Location: Various
Description:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch

Name: Fishman
Location: Blackwater Bayou
Description:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piscine_humanoid

Physical Traits:

ACTIVITY START DATE: THURSDAY OCTOBER 20th, ends THURSDAY NOVEMBER 2nd, all submissions must be turned into this thread by that date. Also, all WIPs should be posted in this thread! Starting with this activity, all finished entries MUST be in COLOR since it will be part of a full color manual. Also, a note about backgrounds: they are NOT required and I also encourage you to do a simple one or none at all, considering there will not be a background featured in the manual. The focus here is on the creature ONLY.

want briar! · by **Luneder** » 20 Oct 2011, 06:28

I am joining in on this one.

I will do a werewolf

I started the second the topic was posted

Here is the first WIP super rough

want briar! · by **Luneder** » 20 Oct 2011, 21:50

飲まれる · by **Nyra** » 20 Oct 2011, 23:19

Do you need the whole creature or is it up to me? May I also just draw the head or down to the shoulders?

Either way you can count me in :20:

i drink and post · by **Mugshotpro** » 20 Oct 2011, 23:37

Nyra wrote:Do you need the whole creature or is it up to me? May I also just draw the head or down to the shoulders?

Either way you can count me in

Jakey has the final say here, but I would encourage you to go ahead and create a full body view since these creature labs are for building and archiving Game characters for InkBlade :44:

not enough beer · by **Fantasy-Jack** » 21 Oct 2011, 00:51

I Might go with Fishmen but im not sure yet^^

love beer · by **lestikitty** » 21 Oct 2011, 03:34

itll be interesting seeing the different spins on these classics. the classic images of these creatures are so deeply bred into me, i have no ideas.

edit: so i read up on these guys and when i began looking at the fishman's info, i realized that i'm really not all that familiar with him. i really liked his story and the description given of him which was nothing like that picture: scales from his throat to his stomach and down the spine of his back, not all over, and he had white skin and hair. plus it even described his demenor: calm and quiet. reading all that got my imagination going and so i gave designing him a shot. i normally don't like designing character appearances but i was honestly curious.

i really liked that far right concept of the male the most, so much so, i used that concept as a base for..a fishwoman?

well this was fun.

i drink and post · by **Mugshotpro** » 21 Oct 2011, 13:05

I'm with Kitty on this. The fishman seems very interesting
... I mean think of all the different kinds of fish that can inspire a new creation. :shock:

i drink and post · by **Meteorskies** » 21 Oct 2011, 13:47

Gah, it seems there will be a lot of fishmen.

love beer · by **lestikitty** » 21 Oct 2011, 16:52

well im sure its possible to get interesting redesigns for the rest of them too, you need to look for inspiration to help your mind break out of that box (at least i do) and i didnt really get info that could help with that from the other descriptions until the fishman. but there are other places to look, which im generally too lazy to do lol; like say that show SoulEater, there are some pretty nifty witch designs in there. some have taken on animal like characteristics and and they use tools other than brooms and cauldrons. but you could also transfer ideas between the types, like the fishman's info said the fishman wasnt scaly all over so who says that the wolfman has to have fur all over. and i read some interesting stuff about a fiji mermaid where it was a juvenile monkey head sown to the tail of a fish *shudder* so why is it that the wolfman has to be the result of some transformation, why cant he be like some creation: wolf parts sown to a man? but you gotta just put some effort in and look, cuz itll take longer for an idea to smack you in the face.