I had to look up a few Lion Source pictures in the morning because I realised I hadn't done that yet. After that I did my usual study drawings. I had a look at lions from different angles with different facial expression. I also drew to lion portraits from the photos I took at the British Musuem, the large Assyrian Lion and the seated Egyptian Lion.
After that I really wasn't too sure what to do to be honest. I doodled a bit and nothing too productive came out. I had liked the look of the sketch of the Egyptian Lion so I traced that and changed it a bit so it was less stony and added a headdress. Result: too bloody Narnia. None of it was scary and I ended up with a range from beetle-lion to camp-lion. I hate having to put some of them on here but ah well...
Right so the lion wasn't working out. What is scary and something to do with creatures. Well when in doubt.. draw skulls :D. Keeping Eddison in mind ("If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward...."), I went back to the drawing board. First of all I drew two skulls as a base to start figuring out a creature.
I then traced the top skull and added some bits to it to make it bordering on alive. It's actually quite terrifying when I look at it like this, I might need to tame it down a little bit for Doctor Who. That put aside I would say I'm definitely a step closer here than the earlier sketches of the day. The mass underneath his left eye is supposed to be chain mail by the way not frog spawn, quite tricky to draw actually. Anyway I thought it would be quite cool to do a kind of zombie-ish monster lion. Only appearance-wise obviously, it can still run like the wind. Although the eyes look really scary like this theyy do have that I'm so insane and will never hestitate kind of look. I made the pupils human because they kind of looked like breasts otherwise, but that could just have been my mind playing tricks on me :P I'll carry on with this concept next time. The mane really doesn't look like it's coming out of his either more like it's behind him.
Here's a cool head I found at the good old British Museum by the way. It was very cool, can't remember if I have posted it already or not so will post again now. I mention this as I was thinking about the head when I thought the lion could be more skelletal. I could add more flesh to my lion face like this head here, it wouldn't be so terrifying then. As this head is quite close to the LOTR orcs and my nine years old brother loves LOTR that should be closer to the correct Fear Factor Level.
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