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Tada! One of my very favorite Universal Monsters, The Creature from the Black Lagoon ! (AKA: The Gill-Man!)

It's so hard to pick which is my "favorite", I love them all! But CBL probably gets my fav props because he just saw a pretty girl. He can't be faulted that he did what ancient fish men do! His gill-face brings all the girls to the pond.

I started out with my new work ethic, working on my inking skills on a web-found Mummy icon. (You can see a clip of him on this: [link] ) I "finished" the Mummy, and colored him, just to see how it worked, and it inspired me to do a chibi Creature. You just don't see too many of those, usually Drac and Frankie get all the attention. They might get my attention too, but CBL was lonely. And he gives such great fish kisses. POOK POOK.

A couple of important notes about this Creature:

O: He's from the first movie. The subsequent Creature designs varied, but I loved the first one most.

O: He's colored to resemble the first movie's suit. Not the promotional suit, which had red tints to it (particularly around his lips and on his hands). I really didn't like that, I prefer the Gill-Man having a marine green tone over all.

O: I used a variety of background production photos as reference to get the details "just right".

This piece, like most all of my pieces, sketched and then inked/colored digitally after scanning.

See the Black and White version here!:

Also, this ran through my head the entire time I was working on this piece, and you guys should hear it for atmosphere:
"Creature from the Black Lagoon" by Dave Edmunds (in a video that is in memory of Ben Chapman, the wearer of the Creature costume.) [link]

As always:

This is for viewing purposes only. You have no rights to use this image (or any image in this gallery) whatsoever for your own purposes in any fashion without my strict written permission.

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Tada! One of my very favorite Universal Monsters, The Creature from the Black Lagoon ! (AKA: The Gill-Man!)

It's so hard to pick which is my "favorite", I love them all! But CBL probably gets my fav props because he just saw a pretty girl. He can't be faulted that he did what ancient fish men do! His gill-face brings all the girls to the pond.

I started out with my new work ethic, working on my inking skills on a web-found Mummy icon. (You can see a clip of him on this: [link] ) I "finished" the Mummy, and colored him, just to see how it worked, and it inspired me to do a chibi Creature. You just don't see too many of those, usually Drac and Frankie get all the attention. They might get my attention too, but CBL was lonely. And he gives such great fish kisses. POOK POOK.

A couple of important notes about this Creature:

O: He's from the first movie. The subsequent Creature designs varied, but I loved the first one most.

O: He's colored to resemble the first movie's suit. Not the promotional suit, which had red tints to it (particularly around his lips and on his hands). I really didn't like that, I prefer the Gill-Man having a marine green tone over all.

O: I used a variety of background production photos as reference to get the details "just right".

This piece, like most all of my pieces, sketched and then inked/colored digitally after scanning.

See the Black and White version here!:

Also, this ran through my head the entire time I was working on this piece, and you guys should hear it for atmosphere:
"Creature from the Black Lagoon" by Dave Edmunds (in a video that is in memory of Ben Chapman, the wearer of the Creature costume.) [link]

As always:

This is for viewing purposes only. You have no rights to use this image (or any image in this gallery) whatsoever for your own purposes in any fashion without my strict written permission.