Rhapsodies

Well I did it! 31 monsters in 31 days! So the last sketch is that of the Gill-man from The Creature of the Black Lagoon (If anyone is curious my remaining two options were spiders and kitsune.) 

Anyway this one was the usual challenge of not wanting to crib the original but at the same time having no time to design anything new so I went for soothing that was kind of a cross between my version of a Deep One and a Mudpuppy. On top of that I was just a little inspired  by how much I hate the promotional stills of the female lead screaming in the presence of the looming creature. Not getting into why the creature would be interested in a female human for any reason besides food. I really get tired of women screaming over the slightest threat. Now I’ll defend some of these situations in these movies (after all it’s not like I’d handle a lot of these situations any better) but having said this, this should be a case by case situation and not the rule. On top of this as the son of a biologist I’ve known lots of female assistants and field workers so this makes the whole thing doubly insulting.

Anyway I decided to do this to show how a real scientist’s beautiful assistant would react to her first encounter with a strange mysterious scientific anomaly (though more likely at a safer distance.)