Cryptid Redesign ( Moth Man)

For the concept of the Moth Man I knew I wanted something much more insect like rather than human like. Based on my post of my research of the cryptid itself I started to create shapes. This one I had much less of an idea in mind and just went straight to practice.

 

I made these quick 6 sketches to see if any would give me a concrete idea of what I was going for. I ended up using elements of a lot of them to create a more refined idea.

With this sketch i got an idea of what shape i wanted it to have, however I realised I was missing the wings. I added them while I was doing the silhouette. 

With this silhouette and the sketch I started working on the line art.

As soon as the line art was done, I started finding my real problem, which was colour. I wanted to give it some colour but did not want to overdo it. And I did not want to do it grey as I thought it would look dull. 

I imagined blueish/ purple tones with bright eyes for colouring,
By finishing the colour schemes, I just had to focus on one and make it darker as I thought all of them were too light for this cryptid. 

 

This was the result for the redesign of the Moth Man cryptid. Cannot say that I was particularly happy with it, but I don’t dislike it.