Artslam - Adecia Day 6 I dorked around playing Flight Rising for a few hours this evening instead of being productive, so I don’t have much of a write up for today, though I do have plenty more to get around to explaining when I get the chance. Still figuring out what tomorrow’s focus will be. At any rate, messy marker dragons! I think these ones are pushing right up against being too gryphon-y rather than dragon-like, though at this point I’m mostly just messing around with extreme variants in designs in an effort to come up with ideas for possible different breeds. Also playing around with ideas for how much of the body should be covered in feathers, and how scaling or bare skin in places without feathers should look. So none of these are official designs, or whatever- just experiments!
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Artslam - Adecia Day 6

I dorked around playing Flight Rising for a few hours this evening instead of being productive, so I don’t have much of a write up for today, though I do have plenty more to get around to explaining when I get the chance. Still figuring out what tomorrow’s focus will be.

At any rate, messy marker dragons! I think these ones are pushing right up against being too gryphon-y rather than dragon-like, though at this point I’m mostly just messing around with extreme variants in designs in an effort to come up with ideas for possible different breeds. Also playing around with ideas for how much of the body should be covered in feathers, and how scaling or bare skin in places without feathers should look. So none of these are official designs, or whatever- just experiments!

Forgot to post this when it arrived! A magpie skull. The seller was in China and it came with a little note- two characters on a slip of paper. I assume it either says ‘thank you’ or ‘magpie’.Anyway, the jaw on this one does open, but it is very delicate so I don’t want to mess with that too much. Loving drawing it so far, though. I’m super happy to have a corvid to study! <3
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Forgot to post this when it arrived! A magpie skull. The seller was in China and it came with a little note- two characters on a slip of paper. I assume it either says ‘thank you’ or ‘magpie’.

Anyway, the jaw on this one does open, but it is very delicate so I don’t want to mess with that too much. Loving drawing it so far, though. I’m super happy to have a corvid to study! <3

I just finished this yesterday! Not the greatest scan (I have to fit it sideways in the scanner- so the light picks up on the sides, rather than from the top like it would in person&#8230;), but I&#8217;ve tried to bring the clarity out a little in Photoshop.I think I actually had this one better earlier, but lost what I was doing with the feathers when I went back in to push and pull the light some, and was just going in circles trying to get it back. I think I still have a lot to learn about rendering feathers&#8230; I might look through my own photos to see if I have any good enough to just do a study from for practice. 
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I just finished this yesterday! Not the greatest scan (I have to fit it sideways in the scanner- so the light picks up on the sides, rather than from the top like it would in person…), but I’ve tried to bring the clarity out a little in Photoshop.

I think I actually had this one better earlier, but lost what I was doing with the feathers when I went back in to push and pull the light some, and was just going in circles trying to get it back. I think I still have a lot to learn about rendering feathers… I might look through my own photos to see if I have any good enough to just do a study from for practice. 

The second painting I am working on right now&#8230; The two paintings are unrelated to one another but share some colors, so I switch between the two whenever one is drying.The other one is mostly done with the actual painting stage I think- I just need to let a couple layers of pastel grounding medium dry, then I&#8217;ll start working on it with chalk pastels. This raven one, however, is only acrylic. 
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The second painting I am working on right now… The two paintings are unrelated to one another but share some colors, so I switch between the two whenever one is drying.

The other one is mostly done with the actual painting stage I think- I just need to let a couple layers of pastel grounding medium dry, then I’ll start working on it with chalk pastels. This raven one, however, is only acrylic. 

Oh gosh I haven&#8217;t painted since Novemberrr? So this is pretty out of habit, so it is not the greatest! Just a quick (one or two hour?) warm up art I did this morning. I&#8217;ve been wanting to do some paintings for various friends and now that I&#8217;m caught up on artslam I&#8217;m trying to get around to that. I&#8217;m just calling this done as a quick practice, even though the way I cropped it in from the original comp makes the bird just look bizarrely fat. It- it is just the angle of the pose &gt;_&gt; He swears.Oh man once I scanned this I realized how much it is showing my early Nambroth influences haha. She is still one of my faves but when I was like 14 her art was practically ALL I looked at&#8230; yep.
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Oh gosh I haven’t painted since Novemberrr? So this is pretty out of habit, so it is not the greatest! Just a quick (one or two hour?) warm up art I did this morning. I’ve been wanting to do some paintings for various friends and now that I’m caught up on artslam I’m trying to get around to that.

I’m just calling this done as a quick practice, even though the way I cropped it in from the original comp makes the bird just look bizarrely fat. It- it is just the angle of the pose >_> He swears.

Oh man once I scanned this I realized how much it is showing my early Nambroth influences haha. She is still one of my faves but when I was like 14 her art was practically ALL I looked at… yep.

I&#8217;ve decided to go ahead and put the drawings from my sketchbook for my Principles of 2D Animation class into my queue. I wound up using it as warm up for whatever concept work I&#8217;d be doing later in the day, doing studies of things like specific animals or clothing on figures or just general figure drawing from stock photos, doing 5 pages per session.
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I&#8217;ve decided to go ahead and put the drawings from my sketchbook for my Principles of 2D Animation class into my queue. I wound up using it as warm up for whatever concept work I&#8217;d be doing later in the day, doing studies of things like specific animals or clothing on figures or just general figure drawing from stock photos, doing 5 pages per session.
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I&#8217;ve decided to go ahead and put the drawings from my sketchbook for my Principles of 2D Animation class into my queue. I wound up using it as warm up for whatever concept work I&#8217;d be doing later in the day, doing studies of things like specific animals or clothing on figures or just general figure drawing from stock photos, doing 5 pages per session.
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I&#8217;ve decided to go ahead and put the drawings from my sketchbook for my Principles of 2D Animation class into my queue. I wound up using it as warm up for whatever concept work I&#8217;d be doing later in the day, doing studies of things like specific animals or clothing on figures or just general figure drawing from stock photos, doing 5 pages per session.
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I&#8217;ve decided to go ahead and put the drawings from my sketchbook for my Principles of 2D Animation class into my queue. I wound up using it as warm up for whatever concept work I&#8217;d be doing later in the day, doing studies of things like specific animals or clothing on figures or just general figure drawing from stock photos, doing 5 pages per session.
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I’ve decided to go ahead and put the drawings from my sketchbook for my Principles of 2D Animation class into my queue. I wound up using it as warm up for whatever concept work I’d be doing later in the day, doing studies of things like specific animals or clothing on figures or just general figure drawing from stock photos, doing 5 pages per session.