Digital Art Masters: Volume 2

SMOKING CREATURE

BY MARCO MENCO

CONCEPT

I didn’t have a precise idea of what I was going to do. I only knew that I was smoking a lot and I was really agitated by something that was happening in my life. I remember being really angry, but for reasons that I’m not going to go into now. As a base, I took the last human head I had created, Dante Alighieri, and started by experimenting with some different designs. In my imagination it was a creature trapped by something, which for me was a mere sensation, but for him was something physical, such as ...