Concept Sketches and First Images

OK here is my first sketch, It looks like a jellyfish with eyes.

Im not sure what i was think when i was drawing this but i had some idea about a jellyfish like creature that lives in the air. Just drifts and chills out. It goes at its own pace! Can be manipulated by wind but still has some control.






After this sketch i wanted to to look more like a balloon and less like a jellyfish. So this is concept no.2



This concept is shaped more like a hot air balloon. Which is kinda what it is like. The tendrils are more for stability through the air rather than stinging, like a jellyfish.

The main idea behind my character is that of a membrain or very light and very thin skin. The character feeds on carbon in the air and carbon residue on the surface of things. Then it produces the gas helium. This helium is then caught in the balloon like dome, and gives it lift. My character can manipulate the amount of helium in the sack so it can rise and fall. But it has no or very little way of moving left or right. It get carried by the wind.

Next after some thought about the way it moves and needing to rest and feed etc. I started drawing suckers, and maybe how they might attach to the body of my character.

I was unsure if i wanted one or three suckers on the bottom of my character. I quite like the simpleness of the one but i think i mite go for three. I don't really know why but i tend to just like the idea of three.









I have now moved onto more development of the tendrils, im not sure weather i want them to just be as they are or have more mass so they can choose to drift in different directions. Or have weights on the ends of them so they stay upright? Am not sure.

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