Created for the Return to Ravnica set of Magic: The Gathering. Brief called for the creature to be "pure shadow." A shadow on a wall wouldn't be very interesting so I thought it would be cool to have the top opaque and let it become transparent as it goes down. The perspective stuff was kind of fun, brought back lessons I remembered reading in an old Lee Ame's perspective drawing book as a kid.
I can't stop looking at this picture, the transparency is genius and I love the color and it's ve-ery eerie. Thebeast istelf is amazing but the fact that it's a living shadow makes it twice as cool.