02-25-2024 |10 Minute Drawing – Fortress Fiction
Watch MJ draw Grand Beast of Water version 2 In this 10 minute drawing session
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Blending Whale and Manta Ray Anatomy for My Aquatic Guardian Kaiju Concept Art
Rewritten from transcript by Claude AI
In this 10-minute drawing session on February 25th, 2024, I, fantasy creator MJ Muñoz, advance designs for the Water Grand Beast – an elemental guardian kaiju in my fictional world. Focus drifts from generic whale shapes towards distinct blended marine life fusion.
Seeking to distance the leviathan’s silhouette from familiar space whales in Star Wars, I incorporate manta ray wings and eventually a swirling seahorse tail. Akin to aquatic centaurs, amalgamating features while retaining an overriding identity challenges my imagination. Feedback from my family helps spur new creative directions.
As one piece of an ancient primordial quartet symbolizing the four key elements in tales to come, nailing his appearance early helps cement wider fantastical lore. Beyond harnessing the raw force of waves and tides, honing visual traits communicates character and foreshadows destiny. Form informs function.
By sketching with decisiveness then modifying accordingly, this ageless figure comes into clearer focus. There’s plenty still left unfinished, but marrying known mythic sea life already suggests unfathomable innate power plus endless adventure potential. Concept establishment thereby feeds stories down the pipeline.
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