Lava Monster

The homework task this week was simple: design a lava-monster-thing.As with anything I began searching for anything lavay which could help me with the task at hand. The moodboard itself:

With all this to help me I scribbled down a few thumbnails hoping to develop a good idea or two.

I wanted to do something with concentric circles. Why? Because they look cool.

I was quite partial to my final two designs, number 4 and number 5. Although I was very fond its ethereal and almost angelesque (if that's a word at all) nature I forsook number 4 for 5 as I was in favour of 5's monolithic structure, especially the huge megalithic block which sat on its shoulders and from which its head was also attached.

The upper torso features a more prominent red hazy-glow from the lava to help separate it's head and shoulder-block-thing from the rest of the body. 

 The finished piece, the monster seen here standing in a pool of its own leakage.

In all the process of painting the finished piece took about three hours. I chose to stick with a deep red for the lava for stylistic reasons with some yellow-orangeyness going on near his eyes and mouth to draw the views eyes.