Switchgate Plant: From Concept to Reality

Hello friends!  It’s Alice, your favorite Mobius Digital artist.  Our ever-so-hardworking producer, Avimaan, threatened-I mean, requested, that I make a little post about my art process.  So here we are!  

If you haven’t noticed, the art in Beacon 38 is pretty out there.  We wanted to create a world that contained creatures and objects far beyond the realm of what was normally expected in a fantastical outer space setting.  The creature we’ll go through today is actually on the tamer side of my designs, I would say, hehe.

The first step is to have a discussion with Loan, the Creative Lead, about what the creature is and what components it has.  He also throws in a few ideas about how it could look.  Then, he leaves me alone, and I get to work!

I start out with some sketches.  Here we have the Switchgate Plant:

As you can see, I’m drawing a combination of how I imagine the plant to look like but also exploring some of the plants I’m inspired by. There's a couple studies of the leaves of the ginkgo biloba plant and also the Dutchman’s-Pipe Cactus.

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