CGAN Jan25 - Cryptid - WIPs

 
Cryptid

Brief: The mysterious creatures of legend, lurking around in hiding waiting to reveal themselves to people with poor camera skills. Depict a Cryptid of some kind.

Deadline: Midnight on Friday 31st of January. There will now be no voting and no eventual winner, this is just a creative exercise with a time limit.

This thread is where you post your WIPs (work in progress), final entries should be posted over here:  cgartnexus.com/index.php/forum/current-c...ryptid-final-entries

Challenge rules and guidelines:
cgartnexus.com/index.php/forums/challenge-rules

Rules in brief:
- All challenge entries must be your own work.
- You should post at least two WIP images that are clearly different from your final entry and each other.
- Your final entry should contain your image (inserted so it shows up full size) and at least two links to your WIP posts on the forum.
- No chatter in the finals thread – if you have questions, post them in the WIP thread or PM an admin.
- Feedback is allowed & encouraged together with the voting and in the WIP thread.
- Deadline is given in UK time (midnight UTC) with a grace period of 5 minutes for getting the post sorted.
- Each member may cast one vote.
- No cheating! Admins may decide to disqualify an entry that does not adhere to the above rules.
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I've been trying to scribble the Mothman for the last couple of days...

 

...but I'm not quite sure what kind of arms/legs/hands/feet a mothman would actually have.

You would think that the genuine eye witnesses that absolutely saw it and didn't just make it up would actually have explained what arms/legs/hands/feet the mothman actually really does have 

I was almost going to do Mothy myself, but I think I have finally settled on the Jersey Devil... maybe.

The hands/feet are slowly turning into generic claw things that don't make much sense.

 

In fact a lot of the anatomy doesn't make much sense but if it did then they wouldn't be mythical cryptid things, would they?

And I'll probably flip and transform that wing if I ever finish it.

I think the hands and feet look suitably creepy and mothy at the same time. A pet peeve of mine, though... Butterflies and moths usually have the fancy patterns on the other side of the wings. I'm aware most people completely ignore this when it comes to fairies and such, but.... like I said, it's a er... peeve. Can something be only a peeve or is it always a pet peeve?

Maybe it's a wild peeve?

From now on I will only have wild peeves.

Edit: also I think I might have to release my peeve. I did an image search for moth undersides and they seem to often have patterns there too. So maybe it's just butterflies who have boring undersides. Or even just the Swedish butterflies

Or pet butterflies?

will I have pet butterflies or are pet butterflies boring?