February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
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Book review: Blacksheep! Blacksheep!
Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Meredith Nicholson
One of those lovely older books they have for free on Amazon for the Kindle. I’ve only ever read one of Nicholson’s other books, The House of a Thousand Candles, and it’s a wonderful mystery. I was pleased to see that Amazon offers a jillion of his other books, so I snapped up the titles that sounded the most fun.
Blacksheep! follows the story of...
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I have an addiction.
Sega had a contest last month. It was just “draw some fanart of Sonic CD that may or may not include Metal Sonic.”
My hubby urged me to enter, but I expected the competition to be something fierce. I mean, there’s some serious heavyweights in the Sonic art community. I expected anything I’d cobble together to get curbstomped by something like this.
Umbra-Rockchick
Sanitrance
Instead, we got...
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Dino-dragons
I’m becoming increasingly interested in dragon art from ancient cultures.
I want my dinosaurs to look like real animals, and I’m suspicious of paleo-art that copies the same ideas over and over. Especially when new details come to light, like maybe dinosaurs were skinnier than we draw them, or the big sauropods had long spikes on their backs. This sends ripples of shock through the...
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Dragon modeling and thoughts
Worked on this guy a little tonight. I had gotten a lot farther, then Painter inexplicably crashed and I had to start over. I’m back to obsessively ‘ctrl-s’ing again.
I read this funny little article called Don’t Be Afraid to Fail Aggressively. They’re taking writing advice from Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, namely, his statement about, “I would rather fail being aggressive than being ...
“Is there any rationale for building entire mansions of words? I think there is,...”
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Robo dragon sketches
More random sketches. Conceptualizing a mechanical dragon from my current story. Ignore the curvy dragon in the middle, he was just my warm-up scribble.
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Visual notes
This sketch is my visual notes. You know how a picture is worth a thousand words?
The delicious thing is, nobody but me has any idea what it means. It’s better than writing in Vorticon!
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Random sketches
Just some random sketches for tonight. I feel like I’m in creative limbo, wanting to write one thing and wanting to edit something else.
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Christmas palm tree
Because I was chortling at Sixpence None the Richer’s Christmas Island song.
How’d you like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island? How’d you like to spend Christmas away across the sea? How’d you like to spend Christmas on Christmas Island? How’d you like you hang a stocking on a great big coconut tree?
November 2011
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Dinos and dragons
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 few references to make the human figure look better. I’ll post some closeups next time. Like, when there’s something to see close up.
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More Dax
Refined it a bit and made it wider, so it’s not so scrunched. Also played with making some rocky pillar-thingies in the background. They kind of look like columns of smoke right now. It’s rough, but the idea is there.
Guy is giving a fish to the pterosaur, trying to buy a ride.
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Dax
As in “pterodax” from Warcraft. This picture keeps creeping into my mind, and I figured I might as well get a color sketch down while it’s still fresh.
This pic wants to go into a story. This is what I call “concept art”.
Echoing the blog
Since I seem to have picked up a Tumblr account by accident, it shall be an echo of my art blog at netraptor.org. No point in having multiple blogs that I update separately, right?