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An aspiring artist awakens

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My blog where I post my own artwork and any other posts related to drawing/painting and the like.
Canadian dude.

Coloured version of my drawing of Pachycephalosaurus. The colour scheme is rather fanciful. This is the result of it being based on a toy I had as a kid. Said toy was part of the promotional merchandise for the release of The Lost World: Jurassic Park. There was a button on right side of the toy, that moved the Pachycephalosaurus' head rapidly up and down. Yet the most memorable feature for me was the uncanny human like arms, displaying its apparently newly manicured nails.

Inks done traditionally in my sketchbook. In addition to being digitally coloured, I slightly modified the positions of his head and right hand. Drawing said hand was such a pain, and I'm very unhappy with the palm and little finger specifically.

His face is a hybrid of Max Schreck's (the actor who portrayed the titular character in the 1922 film Nosferatu) and Klaus Kinski's (who played the character in Werner Herzog's 1979 remake).

Study of Daria Halprin from the 1970 film Zabriske Point. I drew this while I was at work (been a slow couple days). I was working from my phone while I was drawing this. I think because of that and from the angle I was drawing on the paper, her proportions came out wrong. I tried to rectify that by compressing the drawing in Krita, the results of which are visible in the first image of this post.

Thumbnail drawings done after playing a lot of DOOM and DOOM 2.

I was inspired by some of the textures used on the walls and the general juxtaposition of the intricate 2-D designs on basic geometric 3-D shapes. It’s like there’s this overlap between the abstract nature of those old computer graphics and what even the most rudimentary lines on paper can suggest. Expressionist and/or impressionist perhaps?

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