The Stages of Grendel

He's ba-ack!

I told you I wanted to do a progress collage-type thing for Grendel. So the first page on the left is just a page of my sketchbook where I began to brainstorm ideas of how I wanted Grendel to look and to just get things out of my head and onto the paper. The page right next to it was a more focused, in-depth page where I planned out how I thought I would go about making Grendel. Still, my mind tended to wander and before I knew it, the very first picture of Stan the Postal Worker appeared (I have big hopes for that funny guy . . .). Well, even after I went to all the trouble of writing all that stuff down, I didn't really use it all that much - I'm really not as organized as some might think. The next picture is Grendel the pivot-limb. I was going through a bunch of National Geographic magazines, trying to get inspired, and suddenly this little guy was born. I like to think of him as my Grendel prototype. Then, of course, we have the final Grendel and lastly, we have one of many pictures I drew of Grendel in the weeks proceeding Grendel's completion.

Ta-da! I wish I could upload the pictures my sister took on her phone of Grendel's unpainted head eating my face, but I don't know how.