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Art question: What makes a character/drawing "creepy"?
I'm a (beginner) artist & animator, and I'm trying to make a monster-type character for a short movie. But whenever I do sketches for character design, it usually ends up looking 'cute' in one way or another. How can I draw something that's *actually* scary (instead of having a stereotypical giant furball with pointy teeth)?
(^^sorry if my question is confusing at all)
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Interesting question. I have to think of what I have personally found scary vs. harmless. I do not find things that are familiar in life scary like monsters that look like things we equate with comfort like teddy bears. On the other hand, even if too human like, it still may not look scary. Humans are scared of change and scared of the unknown. So something we haven't seen often enough growing up and during our life, is foreign and scary. The monsters that have still eyes, nose and mouth, four limbs and are in the average range of size for humans, no matter how ugly one makes it, won't scare. My opinion is to make some changes, like the area 51 images of aliens by artists with a differently shaped head than humans, no hair, larger eyes, no ears, etc.... are a good place to start. So start thinking of what changes to the parts of the human body that could look scary and adding in more of something human like or taking it out totally. If you want something terrifying but distorted human like, all you have to do is look at some of the photos of what the effects of agent orange did and is still doing in scary looking birth defects in Vietnam. Change texture of the skin to hair, fur, scales, or pruny, etc... and you're on your way. If you want something totally unlike humanoid even if distorted, you'd have to come up with something totally different then you may have to do a composite of several animals, insects, to come up with a creature truly terrifying. Take a look at the Alien which i consider a monster in the 1079 movie 'Alien'. To me, the front of the head was more fish like, piranha to be exact, the back of the head reminds me more of insect body like termite or roach, the tail is reptile-lizard like, etc... If you add in unexpected features, like a human with a snake tongue that comes out that might help. Good luck.
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You're probably better off asking this at an art board/forum. Like deviant art.
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