Well, I've never been a big fan of fan art. I've always largely believed I should be able to come up with original concepts. Sometimes you don't feel like coming up with a fully original concept, though. Thus I've embraced fan art to a much larger degree, now. Thus I'm starting on a couple of pieces based around my favorite anime:
Claymore. This is about an hour and a half-two hour piece based on the character Phantom Miria. I'm hoping that if I can get my person drawing skills up a bit I can start doing some more actiony illustrations. See, I think I have creature design up to a level of competence wherein its just my rendering ability that needs improving, once I have that then my creatures will be fine. My rendering I can improve by working with any subject matter, really. Thus I'm going to try and move on to enviros and characters a bit more. Come back to creatures a bit later. That said, I will try and post my creature of the week this week pretty soon.