Let's Make A Monster!
8/13 '22
![](https://onepostwonder.com/uploads/pictures/65205b888e317047.medium.png)
I did a little experimental thread over on my Twitter stream. I wanted to encourage a couple of things - namely audience interaction and I wanted to provide them an actual reason to share the thread.
Simply put: I provided a series of polls for folks to vote on to determine how I constructed a monster.
Here's a link to the thread in case you're curious.
The results to the first poll (bipedal or quadrapedal) was:
![](https://onepostwonder.com/uploads/pictures/3674832a08ecd3bc.medium.jpg)
The second poll was what kind of terrain the creature spends its time in. The audience chose subterranean so I added digging claws and narrowed the torso to make the creature more wedge shaped.
![](https://onepostwonder.com/uploads/pictures/6b05bdcd11d834ec.medium.png)
The third poll was how many heads the creature has. Crowd said 2.
![](https://onepostwonder.com/uploads/pictures/6090b4bcd54c43fb.medium.png)
And the fourth and final poll was what kind of tail to give it (or to give it none). The crowd picked a long straight tail with a club end.
![](https://onepostwonder.com/uploads/pictures/13bc16cb6a8dca2d.medium.png)
After the final poll, I finished the tail and posted it and then felt like I should go ahead and paint it. Since I was already in an experimental mode, I took the sketch, blurred it a bit, and then mixed the sketch lines in with the digital paint layers. The final results are at the top of the post.
Here's the process video if you enjoy that.
I really need to get back to the work for my Patreon page, but this was an excellent little experiment and I plan to do it again in the near future.
This is the character I'm currently working on for Patreon:
![](https://onepostwonder.com/uploads/pictures/1b678705762e171d.medium.png)
The key, to my way of thinking, is to actually give people a reason to be invested rather than mindlessly echoing "Please like and subscribe and share with your friends BECAUSE REASONS."
Though here's a question - should it get two names given the two heads?
Also, do they read as different personalities?