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Ink applied with brush and dip pen, then watercolors. This piece is small, about 3 inches by 5-1/2 inches, on Bristol board. The corners are rounded – you can see them in the scan – which looks pretty sharp. The rounding was done using a 1/2 inch Fiskars squeeze punch corner rounder. This trick is [...] I was almost done with this guy when I remembered why his face looks so familiar. He’s practically Mushu’s western cousin. This was done almost entirely using two Derwent Inktense pencils (Payne’s Grey and Sepia Ink). These are a delight to work with, as they produce nicely saturated colors and are easy to control. They’re also [...] This is a little more like your traditional eat-your-whole-village-plus-some-sheep dragon. If he had lips, he’d be smiling. If he’s smiling, you should run. Seeing as how he hasn’t got any lips…you should probably always run, come to think of it. You know those old-timey kitchens decorated with illustrations of quaint hens and roosters, awash in red-and-white plaids and checkerboard patterns? Like that, only different. This was my first attempt to use a dip pen freehand in a couple of months, and even trying for a more stilted art style, I’m still not quite happy with the way [...] Evolved to live their lives almost entirely aloft, the great crested cloud diver is the frigate bird of the draconiformes world. The first and third pairs of limbs are wings, lacking even a thumb-like climbing spur, and the second pair of limbs serve as grasping talons used mainly to climb and cling to rock faces. The [...] |
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