My entry. I uploaded some practice sketches of the photos and pre-sketch of my final entry (sketcheption ?) on the comments section of the challenge page. I hope you like it :)

[Reposting because I found some mistakes - I hope this is ok. The original post was in time and is still up] Illustration for a novella I wrote last month. The references fit it surprisingly well, so I just had to participate in this challenge :) It's a fantasy/scifi/romance story about natural & artificial beauty and whether one is better than the other. Of course both are valid, and there's a happy end, too.

The One Lemursketeer.....? (Final submission)

Real fun, definitely got some other ideas from this that I'll have to explore later. I instantly got an ominous imposing vibe from the sculpture so that's where I went, trying to incorporate the antennae and forms of the grasshopper. The fig I feel like really draws out the elder horror feel. The statue was for scale, showing what maybe happened to someone unfortunate enough to stumble on this unknowable being. Maybe I could have tried steering further from the reference? See some cool ideas here, would love to hear what ya'll think.

Here is my final submissions , it was really a fun challenge ,didn't have enough time though

Here is my final submission

I'll start shading next, but I wanted your collective opinion. What do you think?