1.9 Mythical Creature

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Objective

Practice design, clean lines, and shading basic form while illustrating a mythical creature.

Choose a mythical creature that you’d like to illustrate. It can be a “real” or “made up” mythical creature.

  1. Research and create a mood board of your creature and/or creature poses.
  2. Create a new 4k document in Photoshop (3840 x 2160px).
  3. Loosely draw 6 poses of your mythical creature in 12 minutes. Include depth/perspective as much as possible. No tracing here!
  4. Choose your favorite pose, enlarge it, and draw over it with a rough sketch.
  5. Draw clean, built-up lines over your rough sketch.
  6. Color your drawing with a shape and clipping mask layers.
    1. The lasso tool is your friend here!
    2. Try different textures and layer blending modes.
  7. Add an interesting background.
Novice (50%)

Student does not complete all steps or submits work incorrectly.

Apprentice (80%)

Student completes most steps or shows a weak attention to detail.

Master (100%)

Student completes all steps with a strong attention to detail.

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