Life as a reference

Well I recently found myself needing to come up with a color scheme for a not so pleasant looking creature. Which first meant getting myself a good version of the unnamed creature drawn up. If I had been thinking ahead I would have saved screen shots of the process, but I wasn't, so all you're getting is the flat color version. I was a bit stumped with colors, but lucky for me I was in the process of watching Life on the Discovery Channel. To my surprise, they were talking about a certain species of plant that just so happened to play a large role in the creature I was coloring. And so here we have the unnamed creature in all it's glory. Subsequent drawings of the creature have changed certain aspects of it's design, but the colors have stayed the same.