Random sketches

Tree canopy

Yay! My color sketch of a tree canopy turn out pretty nice, I think. I used some of my texture brushes to create the tiny dots that I hope will look like small leaves. While painting this I was telling myself not to paint the individual leaves themselves, but rather the clusters of leaves that created the overall mass and silhouette effect. In a way, I was actually painting the shapes of the sky behind the leaves. It was something I learned reading this art book called "The Painterly Approach" by Bob Rohm. It's a very nice book.

Licking wounds

Here's a color sketch of a dragon licking it's arm in a small cave, which might be wounded? I wanted to imply a membrane-like wing like a bat, so I put a translucent effect on it. The super simple sketch is below:

Dome hall

...my never-ending quest to learn to paint good lighting...

Mommy's Home II

Here I tried to paint a Giganotosaurus feeding it's young hatchling. The young one is jumping up excitedly as if to say "mommy's home...yummy!"

Timutamus

Here's my imaginary animal Timutamus, a distant prehistoric cousin of the hipopotamus. This guy's pretty ugly to look at. I started from a tiny sketch I made a while back, created from some doodling while waiting for the train to come. I wanted a sort of underwater swampy look, but still clear enough to permit some caustic effect to appear on the body of the creature. While finishing this art, it reminded me of a dinosaur sticker book I collected when I was still a kid, and it featured some really nice paintings from Charles R. Knight. I used to look at those stickers everyday and imagine the dinosaur world inside. Come to think of it, it is probably his art that inspired me to become an artist. Anyway, the original Timutamus sketch is here:

Don's first flight

I've done a color sketch of a juvenile Pteranodon standing on a cliff, about to have it's first flight. I wanted to portray a somewhat cloudy day, where the view of the cliff overlooks the blue sea below. Happy!