These creatures have been inspiring me lately. The transparencies, the colors and the shapes are incredible. I can see where Sci-Fi creators get their ideas!

I have been working black on white for a while, trying to render the layers and textures and never got the effect I was looking for. So I tried it the other way. The result was quite interesting, I might experiment with this technique a lot more in in the next months…

Watercolor, acrylic and watercolor pencil on paper

The texture in the top part of the octopus looks like bones, the white ink renders an almost x-ray feel to the drawing.  For the first step, I tried dampening the paper and then roughly shaping the creature with watercolor. I am not too sure about that effect (too fuzzy) but I like the way the acrylic reacted on the dry surface. I added many layers, allowing each one to dry before applying the next.