New Wurr page!
I should stop drawing these this late past the midnight, there’s school tomorrow morning. Pffft, as if.
Got my Iacar shirt in the mail today XD its a nice print. Not stiff at all.
I don’t know much about shirts but I like mine. I wish I had been more careful getting it out of the redbubble packaging, I think there was ink on the package that I accidentally dabbed on the collar of the shirt, whoops. D:
bought from http://www.redbubble.com/people/papermonkeyarts
Yay! I’m glad to know it works well! I think I might have to buy one for myself too at some point. Thanks so much for buying one! I really appreciate it! 8)
I think I need to make more designs.
Some quick daspletosaurus studies. Gee, I haven’t drawn any tyrannosaurids since I was like eight years old. Been a while!
Welp, I have officially wasted an entire day by doing absolutely nothing. Except colored bunch of dinosaurs.
I don’t know what I’m going to do with them, I need a design but I don’t really have a clue of what I’m after. Other than that it should be relatively simple and look nice when splashed with white piebald pattern on it. Picking a design is harrrrrrrd.
And even more designs. Maybe I should turn some of these into adoptables? They’re taking over my computer!
Designing dinosaur colors is a two sided job for me. On one hand I find it fun and relaxing to design the body coloration, but when it comes to coloring the face I suddenly feel myself having no idea of what I’m doing.
Pfff. Maybe I should switch to drawing males with bright color schemes and tone those down for the females instead of working with females first like these. But my project centers specifically on a female-dominant herd where all the males are youngsters anyway. :|
Ah well. I’ll go back and try again.
Made myself an einiosaurus template to use for playing around with color and marking designs.
Also decided to make it into a fluffbutt. Since the earliest and most primitive known ceratopsians, psittacosaurus and protoceratops are known to have had quills on their tails forming a sort of crest along the top, I thought this would be pretty reasonable way of having them evolved, instead of those few sparce spiky things I drew earlier. So fluffbutt.
Also this is hereby the opening sketch of a new sketchbook. Yay!
Suddenly triaformica.
And there’s this guy. I don’t have a name for him yet, but you could call him a trade lord of some sort. Member of the seagoing people known for ruling most of the trade routes (and occasionally of piracy) he has the dark colouration and facial markings which are rare everywhere else except among his people. He’s spent most of his life on the seas and has gathered considerable fortune.
Arr-Mun-Ka hates his guts (though tolerates him for diplomatic reasons).
Design wise, this character is why the pirate mask marking exists. He totally owns it. (Actually I might want to extend it to his lip. Must try it out.)
It’s been way too long since the last time I drew these guys! I mean, what happened? Suddenly it’s like eternity since the last update. I miss drawing them.
Aaaaanyway, I wanted to continue with the questions and answers thingie, with everyone here answering to “What Pokémon would you be besides your own species?” These were actually surprisingly easy.
I was going to make Päike list all the strongest fire type ‘mons up untill reshiram but ran out of space (except chandelure. She’s not too fond of ghosts).
The only one I had no idea for was Osamu. Osamu is Osamu. He just feels so relaxed about himself that there’s nothing that I would feel would suit him more than any other option.
I think I’ll cover couple more questions from the list and then it’s comic time again!
Dang you, reason, why do you have to come between me and my senseless spending.
(I have a policy of keeping my Paypal currencies separate, euros being free to be yoinked to my bank account where money actually matters, and keeping dollars in there ready to be spent in fun stuff like commissioning people. Usually. Not so sure about this summer so I rather keep the option open.)
(In case you’re wondering, I found Skullsunlimited.com sometime around 2006. I have wanted that museum quality gray wolf skull replica ever since. Patience, I has it.)
So, guess what.
Thanks for the suggestions, peoples! I have now made myself a Redbubble account.
Not much to see there yet, I just dug up couple of old things (the first Wurr book cover and the hanging Iacar seen above) but I intend to do more in the future.
So if you feel like wearing a hellhound or just throwing some money at me, that’s a good place to go.
Thank yous!
:D have you seen the new released pokemon?
These? http://papermonkeyism.tumblr.com/post/50250961996/continuing-with-the-papermonkey-draws-every-new
Yes. I’m loving the crap out of that bird so far.
Actually couple of new pens. I was inspired to buy couple of new pen nibs and a handle for them after finding my old nib pen (with an old nib permanently stuck on it) and got some nice Chinese ink for them too. I also recently bought myself a real feather quill pen from a fare thingy, since I’ve always wanted one of those (an actual quill pen made to work, not one of those fancy looking ones that are just for decoration). The bottom rows are written with the real quill, everything else with the new nib.
Aaaaaaand I find myself having no idea of what to do with them. Don’t you just love it how inspiration has a habit of fleeing right when you acquire new playthings to carry said inspiration out?
They do make me feel rather fancy, though, so that’s half the victory.
I want to make T-shirt designs to help support myself during the student grant-less summer and possibly future, and thanks to people’s suggestions over in DA, I’ve been eyeing at few places.
I’ve seen Society 6 be pretty popular lately (it helps that there’s a “Yes, we ship to Finland!” button on top of the page), and people have also suggested Redbubble and Zazzle.
I’d like to know does anyone of you have any experiences with any of those? How well have they worked for you?
Notes to self.
- Apparently all ceratopsian species’ babies looked alike, starting out with three horns. (check this)
- Juvenile centrosaurine ceratopsians all had straight, upwards pointing nose horn that got turned/absorbed on some species when reaching maturity (entire herd of fossil pachyrhinosaurus is known showing that their juveniles had nose horns, that got reabsorbed into the skull to form that thick nose bump thingy when the animal matured).
- Apparently ceratopsian frills didn’t grow their distinctive features either untill they grew mature.
- Considered replacing einiosaurus with spinops for a while (because fabulous frill is fabulous), but einiosaurus is from Two Medicine Formation mapping neatly most of its contemporary fauna with it, while spinops is known from more fragmentary remains and isn’t as well known. And a million years off.
- Learn the difference between daspletosaurus and tyrannosaurus. Daspleto is the one relevant here, try not to draw it just as T. rex clone if possible.
- There’s primitive tyrannosaurid species found with quill nubs on its arm bones, so it probably had feathers, thus it’s reasonbable to believe that more advanced tyrannosaurs had feathers too. There is skin impressions found of T. rex with scales, though, so it probably wasn’t completely feather covered as full grown. The babies totally were fuzzy, though, no reason not to believe that. Since daspletosaurus was close relative (maybe direct ancestor), I’m using this for it too.
- There’s three species of hadrosaurs (hypacrosaurus, maiasaura, prosaurolophus) from the same time and place. Do more research on those.
- What did oviraptors eat? Would be great to draw chirostenotes, diet could be relevant.
- Do some research on Late Cretaceous flora.
- Four winged small raptor: cryptovolans since you’re gonna forget that anyway. Field Guide to Mesozoic Birds and other Winged Dinosaurs mentions it as being from Alberta (Dinosaur Park formation) from 75 MYA, but Wikipedia claims it to be synonym for Microraptor, which is Chinese and almost twice as old. Can’t find any signs for other four wings from North America from the right temporal range, could I still draw one on the background?
- Technically there’s no evidence of quetzalcoatlus from the formation and its timing is off by some millions of years, but screw that, I want an azhdarchid pterosaur so I’m gonna have an azhdarchid pterosaur dangit!
I’m taking this way too seriously for a kinda semi-fantasy setting, ain’t I?
Also I suck at designing colorings and markings for dinosaurs. (Can’t even cheat and buy adoptables since I can’t find any reasonable dinosaur ones.)
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