WIP 01: Creature Raysarian sculpt

I've been wanting to start on some kind of a creature sculpt for a while now. Something scary, or something weird or just something interesting that wasn't human. So I did a couple of sketches and came up with this little guy.

He isn't a creepy monster like something from the awesome Casey Love's gallery, but I thought he was a interesting  friendly alien, maybe even a merchant of somekind. He is a bit of a Stingray/ manatee/ hammerhead mix of a creature. So I build up a low poly mesh from a human model that I had made from a past project, and brought it into ZBrush.

After a couple hours I got to the stage below. I also wanted to show off alittle of my zbrush work setup.

Then a few more hours on another day, I came to the stage below.

I'm going to continue to work on sculpting him and also I'll retopologize his head so I can have some more geometry. Then after the sculpting, I plan to texture and render him with zbrush.

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Another shirt design that I sold to For Human Peoples for print, check it out below: http://www.forhumanpeoples.com/collections/thedrawingboard/products/poketrainers-academy

Happy New Year

To begin the new year, I had the awesome oppuntunity to sell my first tshirt design! The design was to the website For Human Peoples (the same guys that run the Sourcefed youtube channel) and I got a 1 year long contract though winning their weekly themed design contest. The theme for that week was "the Hobbit" in anticipation for the next Hobbit movie.

The quote is from Bilbo in the first movie, he yells, "I'm Going on an Adventure!" as he leaves the Shire chasing after the dwarves and Gandalf. The design has little illusions from the movies and book hidden within and around the letters like Gollum,the Ring, the Dwarven treasure, and Smaug the Dragon.

The way these weekly contest work are people submit their designs for the theme, then the top 5 are chosen to be sold for a week on the website. Then the top sell of the week has their design sold for a year. I thought it was pretty cool just as a side thing I was doing, check out the For Human Peoples store to see my design and other great stuff.
http://www.forhumanpeoples.com/collections/shirts/products/going-on-an-adventure