This is a Guard Animal. A Guard Animal is a beast made up of various other animals.
To create this image I first sourced images on the internet. I had success simply using Google Images to find useful pictures, making sure I was only searching for large images so they were good enough quality.
After deciding on which three images to use, I opened them in Photoshop. I used the lasso tool to crop around them carefully, eventually having three different animals to use together in one image. This task required me to create ‘Guard Animals’ by putting together different parts of the images I found, forming a new creature. In the image above, for example, I used a falcon’s body, a lion’s head and a goat’s horns.
I also used the scanner to get images from books I took from the library. Scanning is a good way to get images because you can guarantee that they will be of high enough quality to use to create Guard Animals.
Creating successful Guard Animals relies on cropping images effectively, picking interesting or amusing animal combinations and keeping each image clean and not overdone.
I created ten original Guard Animals in total.
