Serpent - Small Edition

Deep in sleep, dreams come to life around her.

As a character artist first and foremost, drawing creatures was a big task to approach, but I found it could also add a brand new dimension to storytelling. With people, much is implied and known, as we are able to read emotions of characters we see in art just like in real life. But with beasts and wild animals, they bring with them a sense of mystery and potential danger. That adds a lot more intrigue, especially when we have them interacting with a character like we see here. Applying a more absurd scale to the serpent on top of that really helped to create a slightly surreal scene, which remains anchored in its physicality by the human character. In my mind, I wanted to use all these tools to show a character deep in her dreams, with abstract memories and thoughts coming to life as tangible elements in the scene.