Something Old is now Something New

These are OOOOLD, but not to you! LOL

(above) Skimming the Silver Lining:
inspired by Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern -- I believe it was Lee Edwards' portrayal of the dragons that I really like. Here is an example of his paintings of dragons... Myself, I was influenced by some pictures of Chinese dragons: those dragons looked like dogs... Add the extra sheer wings and we have our happy dragon...

(above) Wakeful Dreams

(above) Mare Nubium: inspired by C.S. Lewis: The Magician's Nephew

(above) FRAGMENTS OF A NIGHTMARE: I originally did one lino carving, rolled ink over it, and rolled it through a press. Oldstyle! In the above is only one of those prints, and with the help of my antiquated, yet somewhat useful, paint program, I was able to edit out the smudges, add chunks that fell off the lino and therefore didn't print (wrist and thumb), and then copy and paste in reverse and also upside down. I rather like the effect!

(above) RATS: This young lady was carved on a copper plate with a dentist tool. These four are all from the same plate, but done slightly differently. The upper left was done with rolling ink over it, but then removing a large amount of it. The upper right one was done after etching on it for shading and then dipping it for a short time in some mild acid. The bottom left one had some ink smudge off after going through the press. The bottom right one, I believe is the same as the upper left... So essentially (if scanning something is removing it from its original reality and transporting it to cyberspace/digitalizing it) the final print it is a digital replica of a digital replica of the original (twice removed), while the other three are only digital replicas of their original prints (once removed).

CITRUS

My husband's request, finished.... I think.... Just had to edit the letters: they looked too soft/faded and I did have to edit a spelling mistake!

7thSynn's Drawing

Here is 7thSynn's Drawing from FAC: he was having trouble with scanning the entire sketch at once: he had three pieces scanned - and this was the only way I could think of that he could get the whole thing at once... He can take this picture and save it to a program like paint on his computer and then download it to FAC: if he wants I will take the coloured version and do the same for him -- I do it all the time for my pictures.

HOW TO DRAW, if anyone is interested

Click on this to see a larger view of it... It's for moonlightelf, but it is very similar to spiritedchaos' issue below...

Some helpful drawing tutorial links:
-- Animations/Motion (medical) of various body parts -- Art (general guidelines & history) -- Clothing (Alvin's Tutorial) -- Clothing (wrinkles/draping/female) -- Clothing (wrinkles) -- Colouring Pencil Techniques -- Colouring Pencil Tips -- Colour Theory -- Creatures (various) -- Dragon -- Eyes -- Feathers (plural, wings) -- Feathers (single) -- Feathers (two, layered one behind the other) -- Figure (female) and Joints -- Figure (adult, children, musculature, hands, feet, head) -- Figure (more female anatomy lessons) -- Figure (different points of view of female) -- Figure (male) and Muscles -- Figure (male, torso, proportion) -- Figure (proportions) -- Figure (basics: very detailed & helpful) -- Figure (real-life poses) -- Fur, Feathers -- Graphic Design Ideas -- Hair -- Hair (even more!) -- Hair (long) -- Hair (again) -- Hair (Manga) -- Fur -- Manga (basics/anatomy/gear/details/etc) -- Shading with Colouring Pencils & PhotoShop -- Shading (with complementary colours) -- Wings (anatomy, how they sit on the creature) -- Wings (comparing bat and bird wings) -- Wings (detailed feathers) -- Wings (bird's sections of) -- Wings (different sections of bird wings) -- Wings (leather) --

IF YOU FIND ANY OTHERS LET ME KNOW AND I'LL POST THEM IF YOU LIKE...

Trinity_Fire said I could post these links to her tutorials, but if you aren't a FAC member, they may not work: -- Colouring Pencil Tutorial 1 -- Colouring Pencil Tutorial 2 -- Pixel Tutorial 1 -- Pixel Tutorial 2 -- Pixel Tutorial 3 --

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At any time, let me know and I will remove your drawing from my blog... I just use it to send you a link, but I leave it here until then on my blog...

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highteckdudu had some issues sending a scan: here is how you can flip a scan so that it isn't saved upside down or sideways...

STEP 1: if you like you can save your scan to a paintshop program if it makes it easier... But scanners usually have arrows or an editing tab that allows you to flip your picture in a similar manner... After you scan you can go to your picture in the file and choose the edit options...

STEP2: then you would select the entire picture either with the tool or by clicking on EDIT>>>SELECT ALL....

STEP 3: Now you want to choose EDIT>>FLIP IMAGE
STEP 4: This picture needs to be flipped by degrees...

Voila!

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I noticed some folks have trouble drawing folds: this is rather simplified, but I hope it helps...

MOONLIGHTELF wanted some assistance with drawing dragons from the front point of view... It is tougher than three-quarter view, but it's possible... Hopefully these will help illustrate what I mean. You can click on the pictures to see them better:
REPTILES:

COMPARING EYES: BIRD/REPTILE/HUMAN...

This is courtesy of crocdragon who I did a little tutorial on elbows for...

Below: Just some issues I noticed a lot of folks have (including myself):Wow, I don't seem to know my left from my right... I think I accidentally switched them to opposite sides and forgot to edit the article... lol

For 7thSynn : who wanted to know about hips and knees...

The above tutorial is courtesy of SPIRITED CHAOS: a magnificent drawing. He mentioned he wanted to know more about drawing noses...

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OK people: you can't save a BMP type file on FAC... So check out this tutorial (above)...

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The above is for jclark who always used to save pictures with empty space off to the right...


I also stick my nose in people's business sometimes to offer help with artistic problems/endeavours. I am not saying I don't make mistakes - far from it. I welcome critiques with informative and helpful comments because I am always trying to improve... It may have been something that I can't shake from my teaching experience...

I was having issues finding where I was able to edit my stories, but finally figured it out -- Stratadrake is one of the Forum Admin Supporters so he pointed me in the right direction. I suggested it would be easier to make visual instructions like the ones I made above as I am a visual learner... The bottom one is for ME!