This is a gift for my neighbours daughter. Still waiting for the local small-town printer to tell me it is ready. Posting early because I am certain they wont see it online…
Tag: dinosaur
Feathered Therapod
Quick drawing today. I made an oops and drew the ink on the sketch layer. I didn’t want to redo it, so this is it.
Some awesome news: Procreate can now crop and resize images!
Dino Stack Finished
Dinosaur!
Balanced Progression
I inked the drawing from yesterday. I decided to do it more of a comic style using ink lines as opposed to the more painted style of Dinoride. You can see the saliva dripping off his tongue better now that the picture is cleaned up.
Stay… Staaaayyyy…
Brushing Progress 2
This is about another 2 hours work on this illustration. I have finished the dinosaur. Up next: the background. The walls will look like a cave, but the shower/sink/mirror will look modern.
I definitely have dinosaurs on the brain. I had a dream about them last night. It was pretty intense. It was like revenge of Jurassic Park. It started innocent enough with a brontosaurus and little salamander-like dinosaurs. The little ones could talk for some reason. At one point I had a raptor by the tail (the new feathered version, by the way) and it was chasing me over/under a table. When I was below the table and it was on top it suddenly got eaten by a T-rex. Then I was trying to get my family into the safety of the basement while the T-rex was destroying the house.
Brushing Progress
This is about 1.5 hours worth of work. I refined my drawing on a new layer. Those are the black lines, and that layer will be removed in the final illustration. I am using multiple layers and the preserve transparency option. I’ve got the body as a single layer, the mouth/tongue as a second, the teeth as a third, the snout as a fourth, and the eyebrows as a fifth. To make the edges of layers match up (body/eyebrows/snout) I keep the ‘preserve transparency’ on, and also turn on the ‘pick up underlying colours’ option. then I smear the lower layer colours onto the upper layer. With pick up turned off, Painter picks up black from the ether, so sometimes you get black smudges near the edge of a layer when you are using preserve transparency. If you have preserve transparency turned off then it’ll pick up white. Why the difference? I have no clue.
The colours off to the side are so that I can keep returning to a specific colours and shades.