Here is an example of a mood board i used with creatures ranging from Robbins, Komodo dragons and butterflies.
After getting some inspiration from the above images, we then each created our own pen study of our desired insect.
Before we sketched out our first pen design we were required to create six individual patterned surfaces which would be used to as a canvas for the first initial sketch and others later, at the museum.
Below is a photograph of my first initial drawing of a beetle, i could not state the name of this creature because the photo was chosen by me from a pile of insect examples & did not have any extra information other than the image of the beetle.
After we completed our first initial pen studies, our tutors organized a group trip for the two halves of the level 3 games design course in which we had to observe the creatures of the museum, collect information with photos of them, we then needed to pick a few of our choosing and execute a quick draft or detailed sketch of the chosen creatures on to the surfaces we created before the visit using either pen or pencil.
When we returned to the college the next day we were given the task of moving our taken photograph's onto the computer which would then be printed on a word document and individually uploaded.
Once we moved the photo's onto the computers we were told to finish any outstanding work in our sketchbooks and start on our annotations.
The following lesson we were to begin another sketch, of a different part of a creature using pencil, i chose a lizard's eye close up.
To add a little extra into my first pencil sketch i created a background, which i then attached to several coil like pieces of paper which suspended my sketch which giving the effect that the eye was looking down at the background surface.
After the suspended lizard's eye was stuck into my sketchbook, i then begun a watercolor painting of a beetle, as i am not completely confident in my abilities with watercolors i expected for things to get very messy quickly, but after i completed the first quarter of the hard skin, i was happy with the level of concentration & focus i was putting into my work.
Once i was fairly happy with the progress of my watercolor, i was given the task of producing an A1 size charcoal study, i then used the internet to find a high definition image of an insect of which i later began to sketch out with the charcoal.
My thoughts on my charcoal piece are little to none, i do not feel i captured the images qualities the way i first intended, however i do believe if i choose to do a second piece i would be fairly comfortable with the use of the materials & would produce a better finished study.
Fairly recently i have saw many of my fellow students using fine liner in their studies and the effects and texture which it is capable of is outstanding, for this exact reason i chose to try my hand at creating a fine liner study using an image of a butterfly i collected from the internet, when sketching out the butterfly i noticed it would look a bit more spontaneous if i reversed the patterns running up to the bottom of the butterfly, so instead of doing more of a traditional light strokes of black i replaced where the opposite color would usually appear, for my very first creature fine liner study i was happy with the effort and detail i could produce in such a short time frame.
For the next task we were introduced into clay studies, more specifically clay tiles which would display one of our past creature pieces embedded onto the surface.
The process of creating the clay tile at the right length i actually found the most tedious, once i rolled out my three varying in size tiles i needed to re-create my past studies but on the clay suface using a mixture of techniques, marks & materials.
For my first clay tile i chose to redesign my Tuatra's eye close up, and to produce the appropriate effects i dug into the tile, roughly around half way towards the bottom and etched out all the different length of the scales and how deep they went in, i executed this just by using a single wooden toothpick.
When i came to design my second clay tile i used a mixture of both simple sketching and the digging into method from before, which when in relief would produce a partly negative and positive plaster tile.
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