We were told to develop a creature that has tentacles so by searching in books on sea life from octopus's, squids and jelly fish where I found similarities and diffences between them. then I produced this mind map of creatures of reality to fiction such as comic book villains and film portrayals of sea creatures.
Here are some quick designs I came up with of creatures that use tentacles.
Swamp Monster.
When designing my character I chose the sketch that I made of the tree looking figure then combined it with my mood board pic of Spiderman's Carnage which ended up giving me the idea of a Swamp Monster.
Here you can see the basic colour sequence I was going for as a basic layer where I really started to colour in the details of the body creating the skin.
Here I added the tentacles around the body weaving in and out and around consuming the character completely.
This is the final design I came up with that included tentacles. This was a really fun project to be handed with due to the many possibilities that I want to go with this.