Create a Creature Artwork Project Introduction
- 1. Creatures Project Requirements ● Artwork must take up the entire page and be fully colored. ● Creature must be a combination of at least 3 animals (real or imaginary). ● You must cover your creature with some form of texture to create feathers, fur, scales, ect. ○ Select a media that will give you the best ability to create details in your creatures. ● Your background must be a habitat for your creature. Media Choices ● Colored Pencil ● Chalk Pastel ● Oil Pastel ● Watercolor ● Black Sharpie
- 3. Exquisite Corpses- Head 1. Take a paper from the center of the table and fold it in 3rds. 2. On the top part of the paper draw an animal head, stop at the fold. 3. Add in as much detail as you can until I tell you to switch. 4. When you’re done with your drawing extend the “neck” over the fold so the next person knows where to start the body. 5. When I tell you to pass the paper make sure you pass it with the head hidden.
- 4. 1. Don’t look at the previous drawing. 2. Using the lines from the neck to draw a body of an animal. 3. Add in as much detail as you can until I tell you to switch. 4. When you are done with the body extend the end to the last section of the paper so the next artist knows where to connect the legs. Body
- 5. Legs 1. Don’t look at the previous drawings. Using the lines from the body draw animal legs. 2. Add in as much detail as you can until I tell you to stop. Open the back of the paper, look at the name and return it to that person. See the creature you have created!
- 6. Mammal Drawing Demo Reference Photo
- 7. Reptile Drawing Demo Reference Photo
- 8. Fish Drawing Demo Reference Photo
- 9. Pegasus Drawing Demo Reference Photo
- 10. Creatures Card Game ● Turn to a blank page in your sketchbook, title it Creature Card Game. ● Using the cards set in the center of your table (without moving them) pick five of the following cards to create a creature in your sketchbook: ○ 1 Small, 1 medium, 1 large, 1 details, 1 habitat ● When you’ve drawn it out then add color using whatever media you’d like. ● If you have time you can give your creature a name.
- 11. Coloring Demos Colored Pencils Fur Scales Feathers Watercolors Fur Scales Feathers Oil Pastels Fur Scales Feathers Chalk Pastels Fur Scales Feathers