ArtSpots Forum Topic - nevar! / chlorophyta's sketchbook

chlorophyta

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:06:05 -0000

Need to put more stuff here! WIPs for my next button set, which will be only five designs. Cephalopods!

Vizon

Wed, 28 May 2008 15:53:05 -0000

In the last sketch with the dragon around the appleworld, I think the penciled dragon on the left looks a lot cuter than the one on the right drawn with harder lines. The one on the right looks a little more buggy/creepy than the softer deer-like face of the one on the left. I like your idea of giving the dragon apple-leaf wings though! Like it belongs and has adapted to that apple-tree environment. :) Maybe you can make his horns look like apple stems too, and his texture like a granny smith. Or maybe like a fuji it can have a blush of red or a streaky stripey apple-tiger coloration. Aw man, now I want to draw an apple dragon...

chlorophyta

Wed, 28 May 2008 15:12:49 -0000

And a few more...

chlorophyta

Wed, 28 May 2008 15:11:54 -0000

Getting back in the groove on the green dragon logo.

chlorophyta

Thu, 22 May 2008 17:23:01 -0000

Last one for now. Possibly a bit anticlimactic- my art muscles were wearing down. =/ We were watching who framed roger rabbit and I've always liked the weasels' designs. But I fail at them. The werewolf is pretty cool, though. Hey, if you enjoyed this update, and want to see more like it, please consider donating a buck or two to the tip jar?

chlorophyta

Thu, 22 May 2008 17:20:15 -0000

A COW! and some other stuff.

chlorophyta

Thu, 22 May 2008 17:19:26 -0000

Continuing in the same vein as the tiger earlier; a lion and a lynx. Happy cats. ^__^

chlorophyta

Thu, 22 May 2008 17:18:30 -0000

We had thanksgiving at our friend Cori's house, and smudge is her dog. Thus, something that looked smudgeish. And a disfigured polar bear.

chlorophyta

Thu, 22 May 2008 17:17:01 -0000

And here's a few more pigs... and a TIGER! Love the tiger, he's got so much personality.

chlorophyta

Thu, 22 May 2008 17:16:05 -0000

One of several pages of sketches drawn over thanksgiving break. I really love all these guys. They make me think of Louve and Foxfeather.

chlorophyta

Thu, 22 May 2008 17:14:43 -0000

This one makes me smile.

chlorophyta

Thu, 22 May 2008 17:13:54 -0000

You may recognize the sketch of keovi, since I colored it and made it into an icon for her birthday. But did you know that there was also a doodle of a vase on the same page? Vase is inspired by Peter H Reynolds' book, "Ish"

chlorophyta

Thu, 22 May 2008 17:12:22 -0000

Drawn the same night, just combining two random things basically- whale and city. Imagery I may someday come back to and play with more. Kind of a lost city of atlantis feel.

chlorophyta

Thu, 22 May 2008 17:10:37 -0000

Using this as a photobucket to post some sketches from back in november. This one was drawn at my friend cori's house, of one of her friends working on an illustration.

chlorophyta

Sat, 10 May 2008 00:57:49 -0000

I am attempting to teach myself acrylics. I mean, actually learn how to use them properly. I keep wondering why I was such a slacker in art school. Why didn't I try harder to actually LEARN this stuff?!? This is my guinea pig. Cat. I'm actually maybe halfway through painting it already. It's very slow going right now. I think I'll be able to do it a lot faster once I have a lot more practice with it. I'm thinking I need to get better brushes, too. Tired of having my materials hold me back. This is in one of those 4x5ish moleskine sketchbooks, so there's a lot of detail to play with in a small space. I'm glad I decided to do it so small, since part of what's taking so long is getting the paint to cover everything. Slow slow. Makes it impractical for real illustrations until I learn to control it better.

chlorophyta

Fri, 09 May 2008 14:58:52 -0000

I finally gave up on trying to draw the cat, and got out my copy of "Animal Faces." I'd been planning to draw tigers or something, but the first page had gorillas, and Primates are good to draw, too. I swear, eventually I'm going to try drawing every face in that book. XD

chlorophyta

Fri, 09 May 2008 14:56:40 -0000

Oh, I remember those things! I remember eating them, anyway, even if I don't remember the commercial. XD ----------------------- Lately I've been putting a lot of emphasis on GETTING STUFF DONE, and not taking much time out to draw what I want to draw. So today I sat down and did some drawin'. First, I approve of drawing from life whenever possible. My cat was being a brat, though, and not looking at me. I like these sketches, though. She kept moving her head, but she'd invariably return to the same couple angles over and over. So many of these are drawn a little bit at a time, then I'd draw a bit of another angle, and then I'd go back and do a bit more of an earlier one.

Vizon

Thu, 08 May 2008 21:43:54 -0000

What about a poof like the Crispy Critters guy? (oops - is my 80's childhood showing?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bmIKrU2jQU

chlorophyta

Thu, 08 May 2008 19:00:23 -0000

Trying to develop the simple dragon with fruit basket idea a bit further. Still need to find a more pleasing aesthetic shape for the dragon's tail/back end.

chlorophyta

Tue, 06 May 2008 17:34:26 -0000

Thank you both for your comments! A big part of the reason I'm putting these here is to give myself some accountability and motivation for working on it regularly, even if its only for a few minutes a day! Here's part of what I did today- the two sketchy logo ideas at the bottom are based on what was suggested to me originally. I hope to improve on the ideas, but I realized that I didn't have anything concrete from which to improve on!