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I am a long-time art student, and avidly continue my art studies in this blog. However, I have a husband and three small children, so I don't have the free time to make art that I wish I did. This blog contains the stolen scribblings I've made in spare moments. Someday I'll improve!Tags
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Tag Archives: dinosaurs
The hydra defense
A while ago, Sarah Sawyer had a feature on her blog about the Balaur, a mythical creature like a dragon, sometimes described as a hydra. Anyway, it got me thinking about hydras, and what they might have been. If you … Continue reading
Flat dinosaurs
I have a lot of gripes about dinosaur art. I’ve mused about dinosaurs here, but I don’t think I’ve ever griped about it much on this blog. Let’s rectify that! I subscribe to one of the dinosaur clubs on DA, … Continue reading
Making vector pics
Here’s how I went about making that vector dinosaur pic. Vector art has to be very heavy on design, because that’s what it does very well: crisp, clear shapes. A lot of great interplay between positive and negative space. I … Continue reading
Two gradients
James Gurney, on his blog, had a post a while back about the sky’s dual gradations. Everybody knows that the sky is dark blue at the top and gets lighter and lighter down toward the horizon. But it had never … Continue reading
Shunosaurus: half painted
Background reference: As you can see, I have most of the dinosaur’s color blocked in and I’m toying with his shading. I don’t have a proper dappling on him yet, because I needed some idea of where the light was … Continue reading
Shunosaurus value study
Working on a value study for my shunosaurus tonight. Trying to figure out where the lights and darks are going to fall. Work done so far: Shunosaurus sketch
Shunosaurus sketch
I wanted to draw a Chinese sauropod in a bamboo forest. Upon doing some research, I settled on the Shunosaurus, because there’s lots of skeletons of that kind and they know pretty much what it looked like. Unlike a lot … Continue reading
