Beginnings of Tree Creature Drawings
After creating numerous preliminary sketches of organic tree and plant creatures, I then choose the most interesting in terms of composition and potential for animating or maybe even exploring as an animated game environment. I take the final concept drawings and then render them at a larger size on high quality paper, spending between 8 and 35 hours on each one.
Here’s the first fantasy tree drawing, which I scanned into PhotoShop at a high resolution, and digitally painted using various masks and layered transparencies.

I initially planned on using these detailed drawings as digital sculpting references in Zbrush.








