Fungi Raptor - Illustration
The first in a series I'm making called "Overgrown". A personal project where I combined 2 of my favorite things to create - dinosaurs, and plant life. I was inspired by Clickers from the Last of Us. The sketch I provided was my original design in my sketchbook from my college days. Earlier this year, I took the design and re-vamped it to the final piece. I love the challenge of trying to make a terrifying creature appear elegant and beautiful.
To create the final piece, I started with line-work, then shaded in black and white, then applied color patterns with Overlays and other layer effects.
There are 4 color variations total, and I made the designs available to be printed on items from my Society 6 store page. Feel free to check them out if you are interested :) https://society6.com/artbykalilak
Red variation (this was actually the original color choice.)
Green variation
Purple Variation
Original traditional artwork that inspired the final piece.
This is the original sketch for the new design on the piece.
All the line work was then colored in with flat color to make a mask to help with shading.
This is the shading layer. I made the shadows and highlights have much more contrast than this so they could be easily adjustable later.
With color applied as Vivid Light layer type, and changed the color of the linework.
Then created and applied a background to match the color scheme.