Sea Creature

Phase1

Phase2

Phase3

Water has got to be one of the hardest things to draw I feel, but creatures that live in water are pretty fun to draw. Although the whale like eel thing was fairly simple to draw, painting it was a little tougher trying to blend various shades of blue. The waves at the end were drawing using that really famous Japanese painting as reference and are mostly there just so I didn't have to draw the rest of the body.

3D Modal

Pic1

Pic2

Pic3

This being the first "living" thing I've created in 3D max I wasn't exactly sure where to begin, but eventually I managed to shape and reshape a cylinder in to something that resembled my painting and applied a modifier to smooth it out.   

Alien Landscape

Rocky

Colored

Shaded Rocky

It was only after I was half way through the first drawing that I began to question how exactly I'm supposed to draw extra terrestrial terrain. After all I've never been to an alien planet and have no idea how geometry would be formed in an atmosphere other than Earth's, so potentially I could of just drawn a bunch of upside down ice-cream cones in the middle of a rock that resembled James Cameron and it would have been just as plausible. However I suppose that would have been a little too Alien, so instead I took reference from already existing mountain landscapes (Earthen origin) and just made the terrain more pointed or curvy.

Turret Paint-over

Turret Modal

Paint-over

I feel a little guilty for making the turret brown like every other weaponised technology in games, but to be fair if I had painted it blue or purple then that would have been even less plausible then a mounted hunk of metal that fired ionised death charges at would be aggressors.