02-27-2024 |10 Minute Drawing – Fortress Fiction
Watch MJ draw Grand Beast of Earth version 2 in this 10 minute drawing session.
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Developing a Living Landscape Beast Guardian Concept for My Fantasy World
Rewritten from transcript by Claude AI
In this 10-minute drawing session on February 27th, 2024, fantasy creator MJ Muñoz starts preliminary sketches of the Earth Grand Beast. Envisioned as a four-legged creature literally made of stone, trees and shrubbery, early ideas lack the inventive flair hoped for.
Inspiration sparks from similar elemental beings in M. Night Shyamalan’s film Lady in the Water. And feedback from Muñoz’s children provides additional imaginative monster designs to build on. But this initial anthropomorphic mountain landscape lacks appeal.
As one piece of an 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 earth and nature, honing visual traits communicates character and foreshadows destiny. Form informs function.
With future stories and games riding on compelling conceptualization, improving this living embodiment of the land itself remains imperative. By continuing to draft and develop this ageless figure, his eventual form and purpose will come into clearer focus. There’s still ample magic left to mold with pencil and mind.
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