design study

So while trying to come up with a good monster type for one of my series, I keep feeling like I was running in to a road block.  I wanted to created this beast, this thing of evil that at the site of it you know it's evil, but no big slime monster or the  typical devil half man and goat that we seen so many times, something different but can still symbolize the image of a devil.  While I was drawing up concepts I noticed something they tend to look alien or dragon like, which is good but not what I'm aiming for.   So that made me do a quick study ( that I will continue) about what we see as unholy or evil. 

So what I came up with so far (after looking at tons of images) is that we categorize something "evil" if we can't recognize it.  If things that we see in our everyday life where to become twisted we view it as bad.   So the more you take something that is part of our norm and mangle it, deform, add things that shouldn't be there,  give it a menacing look, that fear of the unknown makes use see it as evil.

I tested it out in the drawing above.  

On the left there is a guy with a birth defect, now more common place but back in the times before advanced medicen things like the eliphant man where a big thing.  people who didn't accpt him saw him as an atrosity while others felt remorse because they saw a man in pain.  In today's time people are scearded but are more aware and tend to feel more remorese.  

Now if you where to amp it up and lets say the same man got burnt (first time me doing a burn victim drawing, needs more shading and freddy references so hang with me if you don't see it as burnt.) but still had recognizable features some would be scared but would still feel remorse because they can see it was from a accident he didn't always look like that. so they still accepted him.

Lastly what if for some god awful reason he didn't heal right, he swollen up and stayed that way. a bad reaction to the meds, something that horribly disfigured him beyond recognition.  people would see it as more monster then human.

I noticed this when looking through the images that the more you disfigured something that was noticeable, or add something or in some cases subtract something it creeped you out and the more you added or took away pushed it toward the unknown were others can see it as evil.

ok back to arting.