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Daily Dragon #118: Beautiful When You’re Angry

WesT — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:23:00 +0000

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 [...]

Daily Dragon #117: Golden Eyes

WesT — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:46:36 +0000

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 [...]

Daily Dragon #116: Hi There!

WesT — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:25:56 +0000

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.

Daily Dragon #115: Roostertrice

WesT — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:23:09 +0000

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 [...]

Daily Dragon #114: Cloud Diver

WesT — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:13:00 +0000

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 [...]

Daily Dragon #113: Teacher’s Pet

WesT — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:07:08 +0000

Or, “What’s worse than finding a wyrm on your apple?”

This lil’ guy is a blend of eyelash viper, skink, and chameleon. (I’d color him to resemble the apple where he’s touching it.) Ballpoint sketch over breakfast with my daughter and one of her friends who’s moved out of state over the summer. I had stuffed [...]

Daily Dragon #112: Totem

WesT — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:04:05 +0000

Pencils over my lunch break, ruminating on rooftops and feeling like drawing architecture.

Daily Dragon #111: Stratosferic

WesT — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:13:16 +0000

Manga Studio, phoning one in because I’m not feeling all that great tonight and should have been in bed hours ago. Heres to hoping I feel better in the morning.

I will leave you with walking tables and amazing bubbles:

Daily Dragon #110: Four Eyes Red

WesT — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:45:59 +0000

This one was actually done several hours ago, but I had to run out to attend the second half of tonight’s Four Star Studios open house. (Thanks for being great hosts, guys!)

A good time was basically had by all, though in retrospect I started the day out so tired I probably should have skipped things [...]

Daily Dragon #109: Negativity Aloft

WesT — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:41:04 +0000

I’m not actually 100% sure on the numbering, which will make sense once I get more of the backlog posted. This is Day 109, though. Not much to say, as I’m still unpacking, sorting, organizing, discarding, recycling, and otherwise tinkering with my studio space post-move.

Regardless, we’re back!