Group source question: This is the pencil rough for an owlbear drawing. It has three elements. The owl bear. The scroll. The weapons. I’m not sold on the weapons. But I know it definitely needs another element. Replace the weapons with something else? Add another element? Amplify the scroll? What would you do?
I did seriously consider that. Problem is that I didn’t leave enough space in the bottom of the page. I thought about including a nest with some eggs in it. But the room really not there. I can put foliage behind it but I feel any foliage would overpower the portrait nature of the goal. Any fauna would add extra difficulty because it would have to be visibly dead. Because owlbear.
That’s true. What of you used it just/mostly outlined, fully black? Like the owlbear is coming out of dense woods and behind it is a bunch of bushes that aren’t being lit because there are big trees shadowing them. That would pull the eye towards the lit bear.
You could use tropical foliage, for its distinctive features. Like adding a few leaves like that in the outline or even not completely blacked out would transport the viewer to a dense, impenetrable jungle.
I’ll look but tropicals typically have large broad leaves and there may not be any space for them to be recognizable.