Davi's Dailys - Creature Design in Corel Painter

[Hive_minD]

ok
I must say I have been using both yours and zhuzhu's brushes the most. Love them.
Got another quick question. What canvas size do you usually work on? When I go yo big, it seems to lag a bit...

[jordyskateboardy]

Aaah Davi! You got some really wicked creatures man. Awesome originality of design. I really dig your work man!

[llex_paul]

a lot of creatures! cool creatures, and thanks for livestream sharing

[Hive_minD]

where are you Davi!

[Nettle_Mountain]

Hi there, really fine monsters you have, but human clothes/equipment could benefit from some studies, that interstellar armour guy looks too simple-symmetrical (equipment does not broke silhouette, or shape)
more stuff please!

[davi]

thanks for the Nettle_Mountain, i'll try to think of that for my future designs.

After playing too much Mass Effect 2 over that past few weeks, I figured I would take a crack at using my inspiration to create a new race-design for the series.

For those who know the game, this character is based on the infiltrator class, and would be able to create hologram decoys of herself to distract the enemies within the game. If she were in the game she would be an extremely rare species and often claimed by travels as a bad omen when seen. This character is attracted to asari and drell species but not humans.

I call the character Kayhana and the species Sanlith.

[fragmentedchimp]

Groovy, staple thread for understanding how painting more can help so much.

your process from light gray (almost like it was drawn with those pain in the ass prisma pens) to full fledged values and hard tones.

learning by looking, cheers! i dont think i have to tell you to update

[Aveh]

=O

you started posting again davi? nice stuff, your monsters have already been blowing me away for a while now.

Are you still down south? whats goin on dude

[davi]

hey aveh

yeah i'm still down in louisiana, just trying to find a way out.

i'll do my best to post more when i can, just been in hiding i guess. too much mental strain in real life

how are you doing?

[davi]

secret update! shhhh!



Morvanger

The Idea of this creature is that it Travels the deserts and slowly follows animals(and humans) who look like they are faint of life. The creature attacks only when the prey is weakened to the point where it cannot defend itself.

Each victim it consumes is turned into an acidic sap that it stores into column-like sacs on it's back, which will the Morvanger will explode if every attacked. Desert Tribes sometimes worship the Morvanger's as they believe they are walking graveyards that ferry the dead between worlds. Some of these fanatics will send their elderly out to search for Morvanger's to shepard them to their afterlife.

[Aveh]

Ah I wondered where you went to. Do you have any plans on where you are gunna head to next?

Ya, life sometimes gets like that. Hope you get in the mood to start flooding your thread again =P

Eh, I'm doing as best I can I guess. Still trying to study/polish/practice and get myself somewhere remotely close to professional. You still around on irc?

[comixnut]

Love the thread, hope life gets easier for you, just because it would be good for you, but maybe allow you to post more often as well!

[MattGamer]

wish you the best on getting out of where you are.

glad to see your art is being produced and looking very nice. love the sand texture and those little effects! oh and congrats on being listed above with the rest of the artists!!

[Texahol]

secret is out davi

[Locus]

That Morvanger is awesome. There's a lot of cool rendering everywhere, but my favorite are the chitinous legs. They've got some sort of translucence or specular thing going on I can't quite put my finger on.

I also want to get out of the south soon, so good luck on that.

[Aveh]

Get your ass back to posting davi!

[JustinBeckett]

Awsome work Davi! Your creature paintings are out of this world man, really great! Nice studies too man!

[MrWhiskey]

I'm really loving this

[heidamonster]

Hey Davi,
I just had to check out what that "waskley wabbit" was up to! I'm glad I did; you've got some great concept art goin' on here. Good creature design! Keep up the good fight and read my quote; it will all make sense!

[raminafshari]

impressive creature , good lightning but i feel colors are not good enough .

[a la bapsi]

davi com back and update or i'll kick you in the dick

[MiladThaha]

@a la bapsi
Agreed xD

[ryan a.]

davi that last desert creature is awesome. the acidic sacs on its back make it look like it would be right at home in miyazaki's nausicaa world. beautiful textures on there too bro. i wish i could think of using brushes like you did for the hair on the back. i probably would have wasted a bunch of time drawing in each hair that i wanted.

[Darkside]

where are the updates man, missing it

[Mr.Thorne]

great work man. Love the colors also.

[Hive_minD]

Oh Davi! I miss your Painter updates. You blog is great, but I miss your precence here on CA!

[Dana_T]

Ooo I love how sleek and finished everything looks. Really nice sketchbook.

[heartcore]

I like the wide range of subject matter and your style is very pleasing. Keep up the great work.

[Nettle_Mountain]

Hi davi, i like to see more monster approach like in 1499, where monster is put in perspective (feet) and is having more imaginative pose (overlapping?), and feet are not just in straight line. Doing straight makes it seem flat so just wanted to say this, cheers.