Cryptid Rooms

Cryptid Rooms was a project centered around my task of designing and bringing to life three different characters, and giving them three different environments to further showcase that specific character’s personalities and interests. At one glance, the viewer is able to determine and come to their own conclusion about each monster girl’s life by being given a glance into their bedrooms.

I chose to design three bedrooms because someone’s living space can tell a lot about a person. Whether it’s chaotic, tidy, colorful, relaxed- even the views from windows and placements of certain objects are used to hint towards the setting outside the rooms. All of this was thought through to bring the most life to these illustrations as possible and, by extent, make the characters as tangible and believable as possible.

Initially, I started out with conceptual sketches for the cryptid girls themselves. Each one is based off of a real-life monster from varying cultures’ myths and folklores.

After deciding on and testing out designs for the Mothman, Jersey Devil and Scottish Kelpie, I moved onto compositional sketches for the actual illustrations.

These three illustrations were then the final product. Each uses its own color palette, consisting of similar hues, an accompanying complementary color and the same light yellow to unify all three images.