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The Beast Design #2

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This is the second design for The Beast from "Beauty And The Beast" fairytale, created by me. The first one was based on description of The Beast from Russian version of the fairytale, titled "The Scarlet Flower" ("Аленький цветочек") and you can take a look at it here: 9yellowdragon9.deviantart.com/…

And if Russian version has a detailed description of The Beast's look, European one doesn't have such a thing. All we know from there is that The Beast should look scary and ugly. And, of course, he should look like animal, since he called "The Beast". So, I tried to make him look this way. In this particular design I mixed features of a boar, a rat and a wolf, using human body as a base, of course, because he should retain something from a human to be able to do some kind of things, animal wouldn't be capable of, wear clothes and simply to look like an enchanted creature. Also, my opinion here is that The Beast should be a chimera in a way, he should look unnaturally to be frightening enough. But, at the same time, his design shouldn't contain too much features from different animals, or it will be too unnatural to resemble an animal. Plus, to make character a real beast, we shouldn't use in his design any features indistinctive for mammals. Of course, bird or reptilian features look interesting, but if we use them, we create rather some kind of dragon, not a beast. And, of course, any features of insects are strongly forbidden.

Also, a word about felines and deers. They are beasts, of course, but do they look scary or ugly? Of course, no. Their features are good only if we want to make The Beast look noble. And it is up to an artist, of course, but is it hard to love a noble-looking creature? Hardly. To save the point of the tale we should make The Beast look as unpleasant as possible, but remember the things I said above. So, I tried to make my Beast look so. I took for his design animals that look unpleasant enough for humans, in my opinion: boar, rat and wolf. Though, there are only a couple of almost inconspicuous things that remained from a wolf in the final design, like inside of The Beast's mouth or shape of legs and upper body part. His eyes I decided to make animal-looking too, because they would give up his true nature and make him look too kind, if I made them more human-looking. The rose I decided to make pink to emphasize tenderness of The Beast's love to Beauty, despite of his wild look. And also I gave golden belt to his pants as a hint on The Beast's true entity. Also, he wears a cape usually to hide his body, but I couldn't include it in the drawing, because I needed to show The Beast's whole body here.

In the end, I am not quite satisfied with this design, though. Maybe it is his snout, maybe it is colours, but I feel some mistakes here. Well, maybe I will be able to design him better some day. And for now, I hope you like him as he is.
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JasperK-StoneKing's avatar
I love the tail for some reason!  
Were I Beauty, I'd be running in the other direction - rose or no.  Poor bloke!

I really am enjoying your discussions as to the nature of the Beast drawings.  There is so much to consider when drawing "the Beast" character.

JK