02-28-2024 |10 Minute Drawing – Fortress Fiction
Watch MJ draw Grand Beast of Earth version 3 in this 10 minute drawing session.
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Watch the process below!
Struggling to Blend Animal Shapes for My Earth Guardian Fantasy Beast
Rewritten from transcript by Claude AI
In this 10-minute drawing session on February 28th, 2024, I, fantasy creator MJ Muñoz, continue working on concept art for the Earth Grand Beast. Seeking a unique quadruped form literally made from the land itself, none of the sketched options feel right to me yet. Initially utilizing cattle as inspiration, canine and goat attributes bled in based on my children’s feedback. But I debate selectively mixing and matching features from burly animals befitting the earth element – such as elephant feet or bovine bodies. As always, nailing down visual designs early allows richer stories to organically sprout later from my imagination. Each Grand Beast should symbolically fuse traits from multiple beasts at home in their domain. So perhaps this guardian might balance hoofed mammal bulk with simian agility or saurian ancientness. It’s still unclear what combination clicks for me. Yet persevering through failed sketches moves my ultimate answer closer. Texturing the chosen form to show earthen integration can come later anyway. For now, the core creature craves conception through my imaginative evolutionary mishmash process. The embodiment of living land shall be unearthed eventually!
MJ Muñoz 