Semi-serious Art #2

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Here they are: click a thumbnail to see the full-sized version.
These are selective thumbnails: there's more to each picture than is shown in its thumbnail.
The newest are at the top, so the art gets progressively older (read: worse) as you go down.

And by the way, this is all © to me, so don't steal.

This is from the time I was teaching myself to use oil pastels, which take a lot of practice. I think it was supposed to be AJ the raptor, but this snout isn't raptor-shaped. Maybe it's AJ in dragon form, or somesuch.

More pastel practice; a dragon wing study. The picture's actually a little bigger than this, but the edges wouldn't fit on the scanner. I had this up on the wall of the art room at school for a while, and I was completely flattered to hear that some of the younger students had started drawing dragon wings in class. Wow, I didn't think it was good enough to be imitated.

Pastels look really neat on black paper; in the right lighting they seem to glow. This isn't the right lighting, but it's close. The guy got named Niu, not because it means anything important, but because I started to type "night", and the U key is right next to the I key. "Hey," I thought, "That looks cool." And Niu it was.

I've started learning how to color with Photoshop. It's harder than the professional-level people make it seem. The program can do just about anything, though; the trick's just to learn it all. That black and white picture on the left is the original; it contrasts nicely with the finished pic.

Originally this was going to be a guy, but somewhere along the way it changed genders. Oh well. This works. Yay for redheaded rock star vampires! I spontaneously named her Cinnamon because it's appropriate, and because I was listening to the oldies song of that name while I was drawing her.

While waiting for physics to start, a friend and I were talking about drawing. The topic somehow ended up at the concept of plaid furries, and he said he was going to draw a plaid cat. I suggested that he name it Spot. He agreed, saying the name could be Spot Paisley. He did end up drawing Spot, and later that day I decided to give it a try. Let me say that drawing plaid is fun, but very difficult!

It's Tran! This time without the cool-leather-jacket-that-I-can't-draw-right. I'm trying to teach myself how to draw with pens. Methinks I'm getting better.

More pen practice: a nifty fire-colored dragon. There was supposed to be some sort of background, but I didn't get around to it. Probably because I finished the dragon late on a school night. Oh well, I still like it, even without a background.

This is a mirror picture. Meaning one of the two people is a reflection. It's the one on the left, if you can't tell by the backwards Exit sign. This was fun to draw, but I have resolved to never again start a mirror picture without a very clear idea of what to do; mirror perspective is hard to get right. The reflection is more of an attitude thing, or maybe the guy on the left is doing some magic to appear and bug the guy on the right. He looks like the type who'd do that. I spontaneously named him Adair and the other guy Tallok.

Let's hear it for difficult perspective shots! This was going to be a female of some sort when I started drawing; I think she was supposed to be yelling at the viewer, or somesuch. Now it's a serious-looking capricane dude with no hair, but nifty horns! [Looked better on paper; the scanner barely picked up the mouth.]

ColErase pencils are great. Here're some drawings from when I was honing my ColErase skills: a fish [drawn green, "inked" with darker blue, which makes a neat effect], the head of a porcupine morph, and some forest-elemental-critter-guy, resting in a tree.

Christmas present for my most artistic friend, "Jax Runner." [I'll just keep referring to her as that until she picks a new character to represent her]. This is my rendition of a new character she just made, who throws knives [and that is not easy to draw straight-on].

Christmas present for my parents; it's a reindeertaur! Much fun. I'm glad I have our encyclopedia for reference [there's no way I can draw a decent horse-type from memory].

Christmas present for my brother; it's one of his characters, Falyxron [I'm pretty sure he got that name by placing his head on the keyboard and rolling it side-to-side]. Falyxron is one of the local evil guys on Dominia MUD [and apparently he's lots of fun to play].

This started out as an idle face-drawing exercise. I ended up with some new characters and an intriguing new species. Everybody should draw goat-horn people sometime, 'tis fun! Mine are called capricanes [that name took too long to settle on, so if you think it's weird, too bad]. I've put capricanes in my stories now; they have great potential as characters.

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