Fedodika the Koala

[Fedodika]

Heey, So for my next piece I have some thumbnails here. I'm doing it on the story "The Shadow over Innsmouth" by Lovecraft, and I think I'll do every story I have in this little book I have next to me since these pieces are relatively successful on Deviantart (but a tragedy on arstation lol, i think I got 1 like.)

The top left is the idea I think is the most expressive, it's of this old fisherman telling tales of the fish people who wander up on land in the middle of the night. Halfway through he starts freaking out and tells the narrator who's interrogating him to leave the town. I'd have a light shadow cast on him an him refraining in terror with a morbid expression, similar to the intense expression from the last piece. 

 The top right is the last Idea I had and I think the weakest of him, pointing towards the ocean warning him. The bottom widescreen one is the more ambitious one, but it definitely has a solid narrative in my opinion. It's basically the old man telling his stories with the liquor in his hand and the narrator taking notes on a dreary overcast beach (which these all would feature.)

I really really like the first Idea, but I don't want to draw the fish people because IDK I feel like drawing the monster in every Lovecraft story would get redundant, I kinda wanna shoot for the realism element, you know the people, the scientists, the university students. It gives a broader picture of the story. Like with Cthulu, most people only know its about a tentacle dude, but you know, they wouldn't know anything about the deep backstory and the scientists and people involved, which is the other 99% of the story lol. 

Anyways, lemme know which one you think, but if no one reads this I'll prolly go with the top right one, or maybe I'll come up with something while I sleep. Also I'm doing about an hour and half of gesture drawing a day now, and I just feel like it's a waste of time to scan those in since they're nothing special or interesting. Maybe if I get one interesting I'll post it but until then I'm doing those until further notice. 

I do 
20 mins of feet, heads, hands, and then figures, and boy I do it totally different than how I used to. Drawing is like a game now, like how quick can you show volume, form, gesture, all that stuff, it's kinda fun actually!