This week we have been tasked to create a sea creature, right from the very beginning I decided I would do it in 3D as that is what I feel most comfortable with at the moment, because my 2D skills just aren't good enough at the moment. 

Here is my moodboard: 

At the moment I am thinking of something with tentacles, maybe in the shape of a squid? or I was also thinking of a man with squid features and maybe a tail, like a mer-man or something along those lines? 

I decided to go with the idea of a mer-man so I've started off by blocking out a torso and  the legs using the same method that I learnt from modeling the Minotaur, I am now going on to add the arms, the feet and the head. From there I will work on making those features as sea-creaturey-like as possible, by adding tentacles etc. 

At the moment it is very human like, but muscular which is what I wanted. 

Here is a my second work in progress shot, I have added some feet and some toes, that I want to look more webbed, I'm not too happy with them at the moment, and I have just started to block in the arms.

It is early days yet so I shall continue to play around with the feet until I am happy with them. 

Here I have added the head, and I am playing around with the arms to get them more like fins. I want him to have tentacles on his face like Bill Nighy's Character in Pirates of the Caribbean.