Thursday, January 21, 2010

Psittacosaurus, the zebra-striped, parrot-beaked dinosaur.


These zebra-toned dinosaurs might have an alternative coloring, with bright yellows, and purples, perhaps a light grey or cyan color. I understand they might like crackers, too. I really think that I can make a Jurassic, or Triassic Savannah that looks pretty cool with the variety of dinosaurs with similarities to large African animals.
next up: the ostrich

4 comments:

Ressa (ressamac on Twitter) said...

Impressive line work!

Monkeyswag said...

Awesome. Question: is this line art of the old fashioned variety (pen and paper) or did you do this wonderful illustration direct to digital?

Josephus said...

I'm glad you liked the drawing, Monkeyswag. To answer your comment, just briefly, most of the time I draw using a Sanford Ph.D. pencil (from woot bag of crap, I have a whole pile of the pencils, about 30 I'd guess) and then scan using a Canon MX700 printer/scanner/fax thing. Once I scan, I use Corel Photopaint to fix the contrast, darken the blacks, etc. As I'll do with this drawing when I get ready to put it onto a shirt design, I'll break it up into smaller pieces, and import them into Corel Draw. Inside Corel Draw, I will then use their version of LiveTrace to convert the pieces into vector design. It usually takes me longer to do that than the actual drawing. BootBoots has described a technique to take a bitmapped drawing directly into separate color layers, but I haven't tried it yet. I need to, I think it will greatly shorten the amount of time required to make a design. That technique, though, kind of makes it a lot more difficult to produce a good vector, I think.

Andy Miller said...

Good stuff Joe. You should do something with it.