A snail that became a sea monster

So this is for the Evovle a bug contest https://peakd.com/hive-140877/@quatro/contest-sketch-quest--evolve-a-bug-contest Which is really cool you should check it out.

It started with this bug here

https://peakd.com/hive-140877/@artofkylin/volcano-snail-yup-thats-what-it-looks-like

Then I thought about what way it'd evolve. I thought about dragon style stuff, or pulling a dug-trio and have a stack of snails. Or a standard nautilus.

Then it came to me, octopus sorta deal. Perfect.

Then it was time for some thumbnails so I could think about the composition. I decided I wanted volcanos and underwaterness.

After that I started on the actual drawing.

Then some quick blocking in, this lets me see if the composition works and such.

Then I completely changed the way I wanted the snail floating through the water.

Then lots of tweaks.

Then I did volcanos some more. I'm quite pleased with how the top one turned out.

Then the snail got some more shading and textures.

After that some red around the volcanos. And some green in the background for the water.

Which was when I realized I'd kinda messed up the composition a bit.

From there I tweaked the background a bunch, and added some highlights to the front. I'm really happy with how this one turned out.