BOOBS- There, I said it...

Another assignment! This time we were again given the brief to draw a character from a list interacting with an object or doing something that was on another list. These Characters included a war veteran, a Roman soldier, a Minoan priestess and some other characters that no one actually did. I chose the Minoan Priestess as my character and decided to draw her avoiding danger!

Now, after doing some research it occurred to me that these Minoan Priestess' were missing something... they looked a little odd. Maybe it was the snakes she wore like jewellery around her wrists? no. Perhaps their multi coloured clothing? no. Or maybe it was the fact they had their boobs out on full display?? Yeah, i think that might be it. But I continued to use the priestess as my character anyway and decided that the danger she was avoiding would have to be pretty damn spectacular if it were going to distract the viewer from just staring at the poor girl's  rack. I chose a giant squid, and when i say giant...

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 ...I mean it destroys the Minoan harbour, here's some photos of my plan.

A basic plan with colour tests

Priestess' hair and tentacle colouration

A tentacle crushes a dock

After i was happy with my plan I started on the actual art piece. I made a few alterations, adding an extra tentacle and some more detail such as ships being broken apart etc. Here is the final design with close ups of important areas.

Final Piece

Ah! Snakes!

Told you he was big

Here are some examples of the extra detail I put in that you might not notice when they aren't pointed out.

A dock being destroyed

The squid captures a large group of Minoans

I am reasonably happy with my work on this assignment. I liked the idea and the detail but i made some rather obvious mistakes. The Minoan Priestess' arm is too long and the squid's tentacle doesn't scale properly, the one attacking her should be massive and it is the same size as the others. Imperfections aside I do like this piece because it helped me to understand proportions and scale a bit better.