There are so many things at the moment (the most urgent being finding a roof over our heads) that take my spare time. This is yet another update to my mutation nation fixation(I know, I know, long gone) and an update to my earlier ball-pen “tascock” cartoon. This one is going to be more serious and messed up as this creature is only designed to be messy and fussy – more about that later. Just scanned it and put some rough colours in photoshop: layer with base colour at the bottom, sketch layer in multiply, base creature colour layer above it in the overlay mode. What’s that? You knew that already?… Well, you have all the tools to start then.
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Creature Design – Proud as a “Tascock”
Presenting the first contestant to the Mutation Nation challenge on ArtOrder. A cross between a Tarsier and a Peacock. I did this sketch this morning on the tube and coloured it quickly with some custom brushes during the lunch-break.
It’s an idea to explore – matching something that’s generally accepted as symbol of beauty (or was it vanity?) with creature that found its place on a list of 10 Ugliest Animals which I think is both wrong and cruel taking the fact this little fella belongs to endangered category(talking about adding insult to injury).
Eventually, I will probably go with something bigger, crazier, with bigger claws, teeth and preferably a gunner turret in place of the head. We’ll see…

















