Another Fictional Pterasaur Sketch

You're obsessed, girl!

Yeah... I like Pterasaurs, is it obvious?
Unlike the preceding two this one was going to be fully painted and, to make things interesting, I was going to try to do it Nouveau style, hence the circle in the background and the almost classical angelic pose of the wings. However, the more I thought about it the more I was put off. I would like to try to do the Nouveau style some when, but not now while I'm in the middle of another project.

Female Hippowdon

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Realistic interpretation of the Pokemon, Hippowdon. This one is a female because the males are a tan-brown colour. She has a bit of Ankylosaur armour in her design as that is what I thought the 'shell' like part on the back looked like in the original artwork. From a few bony studs on her back she oozes a foul smelling fluid that puts predators off from attacking from behind. Sand often gets stuck to this liquid, which gives the impression that sand is coming from the body itself.
...erm, how are Hippowdon's going to mate then with those big studs.... same way hedgehogs and stegosaurs do I suppose... ?

Atlas of an Alien Planet

Reading issue 79 of ImagineFX I was delighted to see James Gurney doing a chapter on how to create fantasy maps. I was eager to have a quick go!

So I made a quick outline and climate-zone painting of my fictional planet Feilong, from a novel I'm writing for my own pleasure. The names are influenced by Eastern words, because in the plot it was the Chinese/Japanese who first spotted the planet with their telescopes. All the events happen around the Human Settlement and I'll probably do a zoomed in map of that area (at the moment I have a rough scribble on scrap paper mapping all the features and events)

Using a random planet generator helped me think of some shapes.

Sharpedo

My realistic painting of Sharpedo, the Water/Dark Brutal Pokemon. I had also brought a plastic toy of a Great White from Schleich for this painting to see if actually holding and touching the form you are trying to paint can give me more understanding on the anatomy. It did, for I wouldn't have been able to feel the cheek muscles and the central line (lateral line?) running down the body.

Sharpedo was meant to look like a shark that had been chopped in half, or like a hybrid of a shark and a Sunfish so I tried the give the back end the flabby useless tail of a Sunfish.

Wokulo Sketch

I haven't done a good old pencil sketch in a while, mostly its all digital sketching and my external hard-drive is one big sketchbook. Of course I realised this wasn't such a great thing so I whipped out a new sketchbook I got for Christmas, flicked through my copy Encyclopedia of Fantasy Creatures and picked a random critter.
I got the Wokulo:
(Extract from "The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures: The Ultimate A-Z of Fantastic Beings from Myth and Magic" )

"In the folklore of Mali in Africa, Wokulo is a dwarf about 3 ft high. The Wokulu are said to have large heads with abundant hair...although it is difficult to say how this is known since the Wokulo is invisible! In addition to their invisibility, the Wokulo can see through walls and trees, making them super-alert to dangers. They like stealing food. Despite their diminutive size, Wokulos are strong enough to throw a man in wrestling bouts. They cannot easily be tracked."

Why did my sceptical mind think "Are they not misidentifying baboons or apes?" so this African dwarf got a baboon like face, with eyes similar to those deep sea fish for his super sight.

Last of the Chibi Primal

Man, I such a human chibis, probably because we all know what human chibis are meant to look like.On their return to Mortalis, both Jen and Lewis receive gifts from their demon partners, though he doesn't look too pleased with his Belahzur toy. Suppose Bel' couldn't write a note with those long fingers, so instead he marked it with bites and drool to show his pal how much he meant ... at least I hope that's drool. ... ewww!
This is what I imagine Belahzur would leave as a message:
" Dearaooor Lewwiisiss
Blahh ga rooolll bbbaaa dipp grawwwhhh! *raspberry* "
Just for the record, I would buy a Belahzur and Scree doll!
Anyway, that's all folks for the Chibi Primal series... thank Abaddon! haha!


I knew from the get-go these two were going to pain me. How do you paint two gas-faces in a cartoon style and give them expression? Sigh! As for the chess reference, I always imagine Gods/Higher Forces playing with lives like chess pieces, so it flowed into this - besides I needed something for them to do rather than float on a blank background.




Oh, Abdizur! Why you have so many spines! Such a pain! Someone give Scree an umbrella!

Pesticaudasaur (Sketch)

A fictional azhdarchidae pterosaur species that came from a Pick-a-mix selection of the character Cluny the Scourge and Pterosaur. I also wanted to try out my Coral-Erase pencils for the first time (I love them already! Adds of bit of life and colour to an otherwise monotone sketch).

I was in a pterosaur mood (as seen in a previous sketch), anyway, so it was lucky I got that result. That combined with my favourite fictional character made this an interesting sketch. To the left are some brainstorming sketches to get an idea for the head. As you can see I combined the first with the forth.

Everything about this guy is about intimidation, with its stabbing beak, 'eye' marking on the crest, and the bony growth from the torso for chest bumping/stabbing other males.

Name Origin: I name thee Pesticaudasaur ! Which is Scourge (Pestis) Tail (Cauda) and Lizard (Saur), don't take this as an exact translation because I just ripped the words from the Latin dictionary. Could have gone for Clunisaur (after the character it was based from), but Clunis is a Latin word meaning "Buttocks", lol.

Foxrim

This was for a watcher on DeviantArt who wanted a painting of two fox characters in a romantic pose. It was also a good chance for me to try Rim lighting (hench the 'rim' in the title, nothing to do with Skyrim, haha!)

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Special Thanks
* James Gurney's book, "Colour and Light: A guide for the Realist Painter"

* "Thrumeye" on DeviantArt for her photo, A Beautiful Encounter, that helped me get my foxes looking more like foxes, haha!

Fictional Pterosaur

A 25 minute sketch. I can't really say much else, only that I may have had the idea of this being a nocturnal pterosaurs, judging from the large eyes.

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