FiddzyDesign – Concept Artwork

The Rubber Golem

The Rubber Golem is a mysterious modern elemental, that first appeared locked inside a container full of the rubber ducks which make up the vast majority of form. Its origins and creation are entirely unknown, with many sometimes wild theories explaining as to how it got in the container to start with and from where it gained its lone space hopper head piece. Since its first appearance the Rubber Golem has completely vanished, becoming nothing more than a modern myth, with only the occasional rubber duck left in an obscure location to remind the world of its presence.

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While this blog may have been in hibernation over the last month, I have been busy going back to basic’s once again, working on anatomy studies for both humans and animals, helping to further develop my drawing skills. While human anatomy training is still ongoing, with allot of help from the excellent anatomy study books by Bridgman and Hogarth, today I have decided to upload some of the animal work I have been doing, from both real world and fictional sources.

Animal Anatomy – Real World Studies

The first image above looks at the structure and form of real world animal anatomies, here studying the facial structures of  the Babirusa, Turkey Vulture and Lingcod.

LOTR – The Great Beast

This second image is a creature design based off a fictional animal from The Lord of the Rings, known as a Great Beast. To create this redesign I not only looked at the Great Beast design from The Lord of the Rings films, but I also studied the anatomies of real world animals such as the Rhinoceros and Bison.

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Zear Tark Roost on Tearah Torah

The landscape above was inspired by the sentient bird creatures I had recently finished designing, the Zears. After drawing the Zears I started to think about how they might live and what their homeworld might look like. My idea was that they would live in large communal nests, similar to a bee hive or dove cote, built from the ground up with mud and sticks like a house martians nest cup. This giant mud structure would then be used as a towering vertical city, which would dominate the surrounding savanna landscape.

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Zear Zip (Left) & Zear Tark (Right)

Although I will admit that its not one of my best or personal favorite drawings, what I do like about it is its use of colour. The idea behind the piece was to design two different yet closely related sentient species, here shown in the form of the Zear Zip and Zear Tark, two not very sentient looking bird species, hence the necklace.

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The two images below continued the new artistic style I have been playing with in recent designs, using a mixture of bold sharpening lines and realistic shading and detail, creating this almost real world/comic book character blend.

Ruur – Pyromaniac Bounty Hunter

The design behind the Ruur’s character and appearance went through several different phases. Originally appearing with a more goat like facial structure, the Ruur was initialling going to be depicted with Ancient Egyptian stylistic undertones. Then its design shifted to become a more oriental armour clad bounty hunter character before eventually shifting yet again to become this more whimsical grenade juggling jester like character as shown above, gaining a more hare like appearance.

Mikoogrupp

Unlike the Ruur, the Mikoogrupp or “Bugbird”, was a much more straight forward design, with the only real changes between this its final form and its initial design being a removal of a second pair of smaller praying mantis like arms.

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Taking a Kaiju break, I decided to revisit, redraw and revamp an old character design. The outcome is the newly named Black-backed Stilt a dinosaur like creature based on a real world wading bird called a Black-winged stilt, one of my personal favourite animals. This new piece shows an adult female with her child, that still sports its juvenile plumage and colouration.

Black-backed Stilt’s – Mother & Child

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Continuing my self directed Kaiju project I have designed three further monster characters as shown below. Like the Leeton, these three Kaiju where designed to look both realistic yet silly and to have an appearance of a man in a suit.  I was heavily inspired by the idea of them being reflected as ancient gods.

Kaiju Pharaoh ZorrticKaiju King ToobyKaiju Gulmar

Semi-Fun Fact: The name Gulmar is a cross between Gull and Fulmar two seabirds that reflect its bird like head. The rest of its bulbous body was designed by the concept of it being like a giant monster vacuum cleaner, that can both suck stuff into its body, then fire it back out again.

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Although I normally colour my artwork in Photoshop, I spent allot of my time while studying Graphic Design New Media creating Flash animations, therefore I felt it only appropriate to shown some Flash based artwork. This character design is a cartoon version of one of my favourite animals, the Black-winged Stilt, a crazy looking wader bird with ridiculously long bright pink legs. Here its equipped with a fog watch to time the changing of the tides.

Black-winged Stilt

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These four alien creatures where designed by initially taking small attributes and features from common UK garden birds then splicing them with other animals and humanoid characteristics. Creating this hybrid collection. These illustrations are some of my earliest portfolio drawings, and some of the first images I used when experimenting with digital painting in Photoshop. It was from these that I started to refine my artistic and working style.

Alien Sphinx LionessSkateboarding Alien Spotted FlycatcherAlien WhitethroatAlien Black Grouse

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