Here’s the final version of Monkey Spider (for lack of a better name).
From the beginning I enjoyed doing this spirit animal assignment. Thinking up a spirit animal and developing it was a good exercise in character development.
Initial idea.
Character sheet.
By the end of it, I had a strong sense of who the character was, its desires and the environment it lived in. The only thing I failed at was finding its name. Perhaps its destined not to have one.
The interconnected world assignment was a bit rough though.
Drawing and Story here.
All of the animals in the world came in with strong identities, and making them work together was quite a stretch. In the end, we managed to put together a story to describe how they interacted, but no sort of taxonomy diagram we could think of would have worked without being awkward or requiring our characters to change.
Had we started this series of work with the last assignment in mind it may have made a difference. Perhaps the most interesting thing that came out of this was me figuring out that drawing something by hand and then tracing the path gives me a result that I really kind of like.