Insectoids

Another week, another assignment - I give you the planning stages of my insectoids!

Oh look, a mood board..

And a page of initial studies - just getting a feel for drawing the limbs and heads; some colour patterns too.

Here's an initial play around - inspired by Portal 2, I give you Greg the Mantis Man:

This isn't really what I was going for at first, but the idea popped into my head and was too good to resist drawing. He's actually changed my idea as to my final design, which may very well be Greg riding something spidery into battle.

Now we get to the spiders:

I wanted to give the impression that these have evolved to be the top predator and dominate their environment. I image them to be giant and covered in carapace armour and camouflaged.

I also had an idea for a flying variation, because screw you.

In the end I went for a more centaur like creature, mixing the Mantis and Spider together.