I've grown very, very fond of Monster Hunter in the last year and a half, and it gave me all the more reason to take it as the subject of my graduation year's first personal project. I'd had the idea for such a creature floating around in the back of my head for quite a while, and eventually it came to this.
It's worth noting that a lot of things changed between the final sculpt and this concept, mostly as a result of constant iteration throughout the project.