The creator of the old 90s comic Battlechasers, Joe Mad, is developing a new JRPG-style game now called Battlechasers: Nightwar and ran a contest to create an original creature for the game world. My concept was an insectoid called Sporea. Below are my process steps and some other process pieces.
I kept bringing my concept into the provided screenshot to test size/proportions and lighting/color to get it to match the game world as much as possible.