1. I've started it out as a simple sketch, rubbed off a few places to make the head good without any ruough edges and scanned it in the computer for the next step. Made it a triangular shaped head and make it a quarter view rather than the side so people could see one of it's left eyes and now narrow it's face is. MAde the carapace all curved and rounded near the edges and some lined features on the neck as though they were muscles or something.
2. Made a few layers to plan out the creature, this one is for drawing a line over it. Needed to zoom in to make sure the lines are not rugged or a mess, also to add some details, made sure the brush was down to a 1 or two so they would not look too thick.
3. For the carapace I chosen a darker colour theme, started out with a medium colour to start with on the carapace and darkened the purple for the shadow where the light wouldn't cast over it's head.
4. The next part of colouring is the neck, the eyes and the parts between the armored carapace. Adding another shadow under it's chin and make sure it matches the shape of it's lower jaw. Gave the eyes a dark greenish colour and like the carapace they would start with a dark colour first. Made a few dark areas on the skin to give it a soft texture.
5. On the next layer, wanting the carapace to have a texture and not looking so flat, making a lighter purple over it and leaving the edges untouched so it blend in well. The same thing I did for the eyes so they wouldn't look too dark. Decided to make the antennas not too long or thick. The areas between the curved armor plates around it's neck would have a dark shadow but blend well with it.
6. Now the head was done I decide to give the background somewhat of a earthly color but more to a grey/brown, make some of the background darker while the some of it is medium and the rest are lighter. It usually depends how much I click on.
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