Wuerhosaurus

Whoops missed a day, and all I have for today is a bad page of Wuerhosaurus with offspring. Meh. getting busy, better stuff next time.

Dinovember!

So it's November and there's a thing called Dinovember going on where you draw a dinosaur everyday through the eleventh month of the year. I didn't participate in Inktober so I thought I'd try this dino thing this year.

I started out pretty well, having done this Darth Vader on the T-Rex in the style of Frank Frazetta's Warrior on Steed as a commission. Still need to make some composition tweaks on this.

And then came these, just throwing them in the sketchbook and only giving myself a short time to do them, most are colored pencil on paper, they lack in storytelling:

Cryolophosaurus

 Jaxartosaurus

 Dubreuilosaurus

 Equijubus

 Yeminosaurus

 But Photoshop and Sketchbook Pro are too useful to be ignored so more of these will come.

Today's is a Pteranodon with Ptie Phighters. Last night I awoke to the sound of a Pteranodon going to the bathroom but remembered, their "P" is silent.

See you tomorrow with more dinos, thanks for stopping by.

Ocean Waves

 Commissioned to do a peice "about the ocean, you know" So I chose to paint a part of the ocean that I love, the Monterey Bay.  Standard process started with thumbnails of course.

Then, moved on to paint.  Here, I am just laying in the colors of the water and giving attention to the rocks and the splash.  The image boarders are taped off with removable tape.

 Below, waves are almost done as are BG colors.

 Next, foreground elements.  In this case it's Coastal Cypress.  It when a little south on me here and am not really happy with the result but deadlines are deadlines.

Here is the final.  Image size is 11X14"  I enjoyed doing this and despite having too much other stuff to do, I got to use my pastels again after a long hiatus.  MAN, I LOVE CHALK PASTELS.  Take that, stupid computer.  More of these to come.  Perhaps I'll try to do these while at office hours.  Which will make me a happier person to talk to and cover everyone's stuff with layers of very fine chalk dust.

 Here is a detail of the rocks, in case you are interested. 

Want one?  Let me know.  Thanks for stopping by.

I don't know why...

...But I was sitting in front of the computer, my son walked over and asked me what I was doing and all of a sudden these images opened in Photoshop.  I don't remember clicking or selecting these old drawings, but I figured there must be some sort of voodoo thing going on here causing drawings from long ago to suddenly open and I decided to post them here. If redundant, sorry.

Belle As (well, you know)