This is a concept work for the “Creature of the Deep” challenge launched by Pablo Munoz Gomez and XPPen. As I work in the office every day, I didn't have much time or motivation when I got home, so I'd say I worked on this creature for about 4 whole days?
I didn't have time to finish the high-poly sculpt, let alone retopo and rigging (lol), so I did a quick posing in Zbrush, auto-unfolded the UVs in Substance, made a quick texture, and went straight to Marmoset!
The final image I submitted is the first one. The others are from different rendering cameras, just to see the beast in its entirety.
The idea behind this creature was to start with my astrological sign, Cancer, and add elements that suit me and that I like to see in creature designs: gigantism, tentacles, mixtures of shapes. And since I have purple-pink hair, those are the colors I chose for this (little) creature !