I was thinking about a recent Fresh Air episode on dung beetles, that included a discussion of rhino beetles, and it got me to thinking that I should design a creature based on one, why not right?
This was a lot of fun to do in Photoshop, I played around with some new techniques and textures, layering lots of brush strokes and creating the finished form by erasing into the initial simplified shapes I had created, like carving the drawing out of a larger block as a sculptor of stone might. I made the head piece armor in a separate layer from the body and played around with it being a much different color but ultimately unified it by copy and pasting the effects layers I had applied to the body, lots of fine tuning was needed but I'm ultimately happy with the look of the thing.
