Photoshop Digital Painting of Idea's

Sketches

Magnifying Glass Progress

Not completely finished but this is how far i have got with the Magnifying Glass.

Hissing!

Here's a video of the sound of a hissing cockroach being annoyed by its owner.
I think that hissing or rattling of animals is a good affective way of warning off predators or rivals as its saying i wouldn't mess with me in not in the mood!

This hiss on the cockroach is a loud distinctive sound that they make when they don't want to be disturbed.
There are a few other animals and insects that hiss or rattle i like the sound of the rattle snake when its warning off the predators i find it fascinating that evolution has given them that to help them survive a bit longer as they can warn off other creatures.

Fact's

This insect looks—and sounds—like anything but a run-of-the-mill roach. Madagascar hissing cockroaches are one of many fascinating animal species to hail from the island of Madagascar.

These cockroaches are shiny brown and oval-shaped, with no wings and a single pair of antennae. Males sport large horns, which give them an unusual and impressive appearance.

Males use their horns in aggressive encounters reminiscent of battles between horned or antlered mammals. Rivals ram one another with their horns (or abdomens) and during the fight often unleash the amazing hisses that give the animal its name. Winning roaches hiss more than losers, so the sounds may be used to help determine a roach hierarchy.

Hissing is also part of the cockroach's mating ritual, and can be used as an effective alarm cry. Most insects that make noise do so by rubbing their body parts together or by employing vibrating membranes. Madagascar hissing cockroaches, however, exhale air through their breathing holes. This audible use of the respiratory system is far more common in vertebrates.

Sketches/Silhouettes

After the sketches i made them into silhouette's to see what they would look like.

i feel that the one with human legs looks better as a shadow than it does as a sketch but still these images are far from final as i want to make them much bigger and scarier.       

Here's a few sketches i did to try and think about how i want my 'Monster' to look like..
i think i might redefine the first image as i think that the one with human legs just looks pointless.