Crustaceans Concept Art

These are my designs for a brief of creating 3 creatures based on Crustaceans. We were told to watch a video by Feng Zhu who created character designs using the same silhouette method we had to. 
Here are some of the images I used for inspiration followed by the concepts I came up with.



My favourite of the three is the mutated hermit crab on the far right. It was a mistake that gave me the idea for it. I was drawing out the silhouette of a hermit crab and accidentally erased a line down the middle of the shell. This gave me the idea for a gaping mouth. I'm really pleased with the way it turned out.

The lobster monster happened when I thought of making a swimming creature rather than a walking one. I really like his colouring. I never intended for the orange but I was trying out different colours and it just went together with the blue in my opinion.

The last creature, the one on the left, turned out to be less crustacean than I wanted. His shape came from me playing around with a six legged creature. When I initially coloured him he was bright green and bright red. At the time, I thought it looked great. Then I realised that the colours just didn't suit a crustacean inspired creature. So I went for more ocean suited colours.

Here is a mood-board of some of the images I used for inspiration.