Hello again,
and welcome back to the interwebs!
The word of the week is Egg. Being that I love video games, this was actually a very interesting concept for me, because eggs have nothing to do with video games, but I have made it my mission to persevere to design video game concept art from my inspiration words.
My first idea was to make a war hammer with an egg as the actual hammer piece. This is as far as I got:
By the time I got to this point I hated how it looked, and began to think of 'egg' in other terms. What better way to completely screw around with the concept of something as harmless and innocent as an egg, than to turn it into a horrifying monster that looks like it'll eat you first? So that's what I did.
I started off with a sketch I made in about an hour or so. I tried to make it look really dark with the shading to get that really evil kind of essence.
Afterwards I traced over the original sketch with pen on marker paper. At this stage it was really just the lines and overall image I was trying to capture
Next I added some more depth with my pen by filling in the darker areas like the mouth opening. I also made some lines thicker to show shading
After letting the ink dry I started adding colour with my Prismacolour markers. As it was still meant to be an egg I knew I needed a colour that wasn't quite white, but still light enough for it to be recognizable as an egg. I actually ended up using skin tone, slightly peachy. The dirt was just a couple shades of brown at this point.
I continued adding colour to the entire image until it was completely covered, then followed up with more layers of colour on top to get depth and shading, alternating between using darker shades of the same colours and layers of grey. I finished off by adding a few more sketch lines with my pen to really emphasize the darker areas.
After completing the final physical image I brought it into Photoshop to increase the contrast, hue/saturation, and gave it a sharpening, sharpened edge, and high pass filter. The finished product turned out closer to what I had in mind than I had imagined possible.
So the next time you eat eggs, remember how terrifying it could have been. Breakfast seems so nice and peaceful, and then -BAM! Egg monster!
But not today! Have a good one, until next time I bid adieu.
"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."
Walter Benjamin
