I liked the idea of trying to combine a gibbon with a plant or tree or something, working with thick vines. I didn't render it too much because I actually don't know much about gibbons. But here it is.

Combined an ape with a lion. I also tried not to use a hard round brush but keep everything loose. Done in 1h. Hyped for the course!

bat/gorilla

Here's my quick stab at sketching a monkey-leopard creature. My sad attempt at remembering what a cats hind limbs look like ended up making my creature look like he has some goofy frog legs. I'm looking forward to learning about animal anatomy and working on dynamic and interesting shapes and poses.

Hey everyone and David, thank you for making this lovely course. I've always liked drawing creatures and I'd love to know how to give more dynamic or life-ness to my creature along the way. In this first assignment, since the primary animal is primate/ape, my instinct tells me to mix it with other arboreal animal, in this case two-toed sloth. Although this is not a concept class for sure, I'd love to incorporate some of the real function of each limbs and apply knowledge from your class. I did my best to draw it from imaginations after doing tooooonsss of studies haha. Really enjoy the class so far, looking forward to the next lessons!

Here is my Goatrilla!

here are my attempts for the first assignment. I tried different things: wasp, sloth, squirrel, chameleon. But I remembered you said it could be anything, so my mind chose a balloon baboon! hehe On the other hand, I don't remember enough the anatomy of the baboon... :) I really hope to improve the dynamic side. It's like my brain is always stuck at the static conceptual point! I think this course will help me!! Thanks @DavidColman!

Hi @David Colman and fellow creature-students. I just purchased the course, so im a little bit late, but here are my drawings for the first assignment. Its the first online-course that im doing while its beeing released and with a lot of active students so im a bit nervous, but also very exited and ready to learn a lot. I did a mixture of a anglerfish and a gorilla (because its the ape ive studied most in the past). I had a lot of fun inventing this creature. I tried to implement some of the tips from the video and also tried to implement some things from the Drawing with live, energy and story and the "Fundamentals of Character Design"-course (wich im going through at the moment) aswell. Looking at my drawings now i notice that i didnt use any dynamic angles, only some front and side-views. That is something will try to consider next time. Tips or any kind of feedback would be very appreciated. Greetings Linus

Here’s mine I did a mixed of two. The ape warrior giant weapon and fire monkey

Hi David - I gave this a go but couldn't really get anywhere without reference (?) Feel like there's so much information to each animal that I couldn't possibly recall enough to even get through a sketch without knowing the subject that well... Is that kind of the point, or would you recommend just trying to push through anyway and seeing what happens? Thanks!

Here's a try

Think I posted this in the wrong place first time round, hopefully this is where it belongs. Wanted to do a really small, bird-monkey.

Hi, here is my first assignment. i tried a very basic Ape but i addet some Plants. It was a challange though to draw an ape with no reference. If someone got any Tips, pleas feel free to help me. Greatings Vincent

This is a gorilla combined with a crocodile.

Hi! Here is my assignment. Tried a variety of things: cat, bat, mouse, fishman(?), etc. Looking forward to this course, really hoping to improve the creativity and making the creatures more dynamic.

I just did my first assignment for this course. I tried to do a fun little mixture of a monkey with a bettle morph thing going on here. This lovely creature can fly and swing and feeds off of light sources. I'm really looking forward to seeing where this course of yours takes me in creature design David Colemen. Looking forward to this journey. I chose to take your class because I wanna get back into physical drawing again. Also, I have always wanted to learn to create animals as well with a fantasy theme attached to them. Hope ya like it Mr Colemen.

Water apes! I thought I could try a mix between a gibbon/lesser ape and a platypus. But in hindsight, he just looks like a monkey with webbed hands and feet. Anyway! Really looking forward for what will come in this course. I like your take on subtleties and believability and hope to bring some of that into my own work as we go on. Thank you for this David!

Got over the fear of posting my drawings, so here's my gorilla-wolf hybrid. Really hoping to get my skills upgraded with this class! :3

I'm very reliant on reference images and I know it, so going without is always tough.