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
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4 comments:

Ressa (ressamac on Twitter) said...

Impressive line work!

January 22, 2010 at 1:13 AM
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?

January 23, 2010 at 9:03 AM
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.

January 23, 2010 at 9:49 AM
Andy Miller said...

Good stuff Joe. You should do something with it.

January 24, 2010 at 12:38 PM

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