Tag Archives: Step by Step

Another kitty

Posted on April 1, 2012 by NetRaptor

Today’s April Fool’s Day, and Deviantart is having a contest thingy to try to upload 15000 cat pictures. The prank being that cats have taken over DA. I chortled and started drawing a cat. Here’s the reference pic I worked … Continue reading →

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Dinos and dragons

Posted on November 28, 2011 by NetRaptor

Worked on it a bit more in a few scraps of spare time. I’m blocking in the main masses right now. Trying to grasp rocks, you see. I’m trying to compose them like big messy jumbled stairs. Also used a … Continue reading →

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Using a figure tutorial

Posted on November 22, 2011 by NetRaptor

I wanted to brush up on my figure sketching tonight. I did that rough little comic last night, and my figures were pretty bad. So I went sniffing around my favorite stock archive on DA, and lo and behold, she’s … Continue reading →

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Fox in snow, nearly done

Posted on November 17, 2011 by NetRaptor

Worked on this for a while tonight and got it mostly done, I think. Here’s the black and white layer. Here’s the color layer on the fox. It’s subtle. Now her eyes look alive! And then the liberal amount of … Continue reading →

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Making vector pics

Posted on August 1, 2011 by NetRaptor

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 →

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Misty raptor, step by step

Posted on March 17, 2011 by NetRaptor

I sat down to do a little doodle, and doodled a raptor. I seem to default to them when I’m tired. I wondered what to do with it, then thought of James Gurney’s latest post on his blog about How … Continue reading →

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Airbrush space, part 2

Posted on March 9, 2011 by NetRaptor

Welcome back to my attempt to airbrush space instead of auto-generating it! I went back and took a look at my gas clouds, and decided that they were too busy. I’ve also been staring at space art, and it finally … Continue reading →

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