Hey I'm Rob.
This will be my first art competition, i did a games competition a while back but never one for art specifically. I've been 3D modeling and doing traditional art for about 4 years now, about 3 years ago i started at art school, and my progress has been kind of slow, I admit, but im actively trying to become a better character designer. I want to make my own games one day and creatures/characters are a huge part of that so I'd like to get good at it, I figured coming here to participate might give me an opportunity to not only expand my portfolio but hopefully make some new friendships. ill try to be active over the next several weeks on other peoples work and offer my $.02. And if i could win something while I'm at it, well that would be just swell 
In my next post I'll show some of my other character/creature design stuff, then ill go into writing a story for the character. after that I'll collect and show reference and then into iterations of silhouettes and costuming, then onto patterning, colors, and texturing.
I may go 'back to the drawing board' as it were several times. I'm often not happy with my first draft of a character so after getting a bunch of feedback I may scrap my old design almost entirely for something more dynamic if the situation calls for it.
Anyway, please introduce yourself at any time and tell me any of your thoughts about any step of development or just say hi. I'm looking for feedback all the time so feel free to offer any form of it. 
I look forward to getting to know more of you 
