“What is Creative Mondays?
Monday’s are always a drag. The start of a new week, you have to go back to that routine of going to bed early/get up early. If (like me) you have to commute then you prepare for that long journey into work and that long journey back for the first time after a nice two day break.
So to kick off those lousy Mondays, I’m going to get my creative mind flowing in a positive way. Creative Mondays. A chance for me to show off something unfinished or finished that I’ve been working on throughout the previous week.”
While browsing the web this week I came across a design challenge from the folks at Psdtuts+ to create a new animal species within Photoshop. I love trying out these challenges not only to test out what I can do but to see what everyone else comes up with. There’s always an idea or two in there that inspires.
I decided to try to create three animals in all with the photos used taken from the awesome stock.xchng site. The Hawkbear and Parrolizard are my favourites, I was having a tough time with the Crocolizard and he could do with some more colour/texture blending work.
I’ll be submitting these to the challenge (find out all the rules and entry instructions here) and hoping to get some feedback about my attempts!
Stock photo credits:
1st Photo
Bear: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1400875
Fish: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1218074
Squirrel: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1383943
Bird: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/669288
2nd Photo
Lizard: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1088747
Parrot: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1319324
3rd Photo
Crocodile: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1359140