Hi, welcome to week 9 of my weekend sketching hobby. This week’s mythical creature comes from France, mere coincidence and nothing related to the Paris Olympic Games 😆
A Gargoyle or Grotesque?
From the French “gargouille” which in English is probably “throat”, gargoyles are guardians that ward off evil and that totally makes sense because they protect buildings from water damage by “spewing” excess rain away from the walls.
Here’s the paper draft for this week creature:
A bit that no one asked for, but here it goes: During my process, I usually do lines first, then color, and then shadows/light, but sometimes I do shadows before color:
Thanks for visiting my blog, and remember to step by next Sunday for one more illo presenting tribute to the folk of another corner of the world.
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