I started shading my raptor sketch from my last blogpost. It was just too good to leave alone. First I flood-filled the background purple, then used a dark grayish blue to paint in the shadows. I wanted shadows kind of falling behind his limbs and body, the way they do in water. Because I wanted [...]
I was sketching what seems to be a promising pic, possibly even concept art. I got this far and realized that I don’t know what, exactly, is coming out of the raptor’s mouth. Fire? Water? Lightning? So I need suggestions. What sort of nasty-strong energy should be coming out of his mouth?
We finally know the secret of Sonic’s speed. Starbucks. I was trying to get that streaky, blurry “speed” look. Maybe I should have gone for a linear scene instead of one that goes in a spiral. I just can’t ever do anything the easy way, it seems.
I sat down to do some random sketches, and this is what came out. I don’t know who they are or why she’s soothing the raptor, but it’s sure interesting.
I suck at perspective. I wanted to put my long-necks on the African savannah, because I haven’t painted the savannah in a long time. I just love the color of it. I know this pic is super-saturated in the colors, but I liked the perspective of it. And I like to paint in bright colors [...]
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I’ve wanted to do a pic like this for a long time. A couple of giraffes in the foreground, eating stuff from high places … and in the background is a brachiosaurus, the dinosaur giraffe, doing the same thing from an even higher place. I want to experiment with spatial distance in this pic, the [...]
Summer Night Dreams I by ~Quit007 on deviantART I had to click on this to see it up close before I figured out what it was. It’s fireflies! They have a bunch of other firefly photos like this. They’re absolutely amazing, especially to me, who lives on the fireflyless west coast.
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