Monster Designs
I've been sketching a lot of monsters these days. Here are some sketches for more fantasy monsters, this time wood elementals.
After I have a sketch and more or less know where I want to go with this, a monster in the general detail level of these or the paper monsters from before usually take me 1 to 3 hours to paint. So I can keep making them fairly quickly when I have the time. Of course that doesn't take into account the time it takes to add these into the game, adding any special behaviors, finding and adding sound effects and making a couple frames of simple animation for each of these.
Speaking of animations, here's a preview of the paper monsters with very simple animations added. I am not an animator and fully animating anything would murder my motivation to live, but adding small things like these is not too difficult or time consuming and I think it still makes the game feel more alive:
I also made another sketch for the wood themed monsters which I like the most from these: the Bramble Stichija. I wanted to do something with brambles and I also stumbled upon some strange white and black stripped flower while googling rare plants for inspiration. That gave me an idea for the head of this critter and combined with the bramble thing we get this design. I think it's a fancy enough design to be used as a higher tier monster than all the other sketches and I will spend more time on this. If I treat it like a detailed character painting then it might take two or three full days, but hey, it's fun though.
