How to draw drider creature design. Learn to draw drider creature from step by step images with instruction. A drider is an aberration that was formerly a dark elf. Driders are centaur-like creatures in the game, appearing as drow from the waist up, with their lower portions replaced by the abdomen and legs of immense spiders. They are most commonly found in the Underdark. This character design Concept Art process is just one of those out of nowhere, based on many ancient fantasy epic fairy tale about deadly spider demons. Spider are depicted as symbol of evil and have their own right to many scary tales all over the world; China, Japan, Greek, etc.

I am again attempt to find a balance between beauty and creepy, soft motherly feminine and deadly and poisonous. I think life is a paradox, and so do beautiful women. At the time I was thinking along the line of what if I visit hell then I met its’ princess. How do I make it so mystical, scary, and beauty. I make a feel concept like this a while back, they are my favorite things to do and paint. Here is a quick process of drawing and painting Spider Demoness.

Below are step by step images with instruction. Step one, I did a rough sketch in my sketchbook, once in a while I will scan a batch in. This I just did yesterday, but I feel like painting it so I scanned it in right after. Sometimes some idea just cannot wait. Step two, After scanned it in, I cropped it to get the composition I want. Step three, Then I add background color using overlay or multiply…doesn’t matter whatever gets the job done. Then I use darker color to separate the silhouette of the body out from the background. Step four, Color them away…get the base color idea of what I want them to look like. Step five, Assigning value along with the on going color. Step six, But for now, here are the step by step of how far I have the Drider Queen.

how to draw drider queen

Some painting tips, my process might be different from time to time but the most important things is
1) Get the drawing right
2) Get the Value right
3) Color choice (you can see on the right side of the blog on color scheme)
4) Composition and other elements.

This character design Concept Art process is work in progress of the previous post drawing, based on many ancient fantasy epic fairy tale about deadly spider demons. Hopefully I will take it as far as I could to be as finish and polish as I could. It will take many post. But hopefully you guys can enjoy the progress though I didn’t record the first and the second session (this post) but maybe I could record the next one and have a download link for video or something. Step eight, I changed her hair style a little to make it a little more feminine and less creepy on the head. Step nine, closed up of the last image (very sketchy). Step ten, paint over her upper body, her head decoration and hair then Painted over shoulder and arm. It will be a while to get this whole creature done.

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Here is the final image of Drider (still unfinished)

drider queen unfinished

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