Menagerie Cometh (part duex...)
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I definitely need a banana for scale.
Yeah, I was shocked at the weight as well...but I don't know if Jadzia Dax was being facetious or not when she made the statement. So I imagined the beast to be a large, almost oil tanker-size. Either that, or perhaps the animal is from a high gravity world.
Klingon Kolar Beast:
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Klingon Kolar Beast:
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Finally went through these. These are fantastic. Great work!
Yeah mate, ink is my mistress. All markers bleed, the key is the material that they are being used on, and how long you are at an area with a stroke (though, I have found that different markers bleed at different rates, due to their brand's trade formula...like how a chartpak marker flows much more freely than a prismacolor one. Or a sharpie flows less than a prismacolor) . In this case, these have all been drawn and cloroured on 65lb "natural" (natural in this case being a parchment look) cardstock that I picked up at Staples. Sku# 733100 (Ironically, it cannot be found on Staples.com, but it is found at the store level...go figure).
If you hit an art store, you could also look for multimedia paper, or more to the point, marker paper. Multimedia paper has a heavier weight, to which I like more to work on personally, while marker paper can feel like a tracing paper, but it is not as porous, thus holding the marker's ink in check from over bleeding.
Hope that helps.
Thanks! Sorry for no new updates, been tied up with RL, but I do have more underway.
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Do you use prismacolor for the colors and an ultra thin sharpie for the black? How big are these drawings in RL?
when it comes to markers I use whatever I can get my hands on...I've worked with everything from cheap dollar store stuff, to the "professional" zyline-based markers...and everything in between(and I mean everything...Crayola has some of the most stunning blues, and sharpie red is nigh perfect). I like Prismas, Tria's, Pantones, Chartpaks, for blending, but I can blend with anything, the key is stokes and their number. This means one layer from one stroke is the lightest that colour will ever be, but if you go over it a second to multiple times, the colour becomes deeper and richer. You can then use a darker shade to add depth, and then blend to the first colour, by using the said colour over the darker, creating a more natural illusion of depth.
As for the line work: all my line work is done in a .01 or thinner depending on the need. I've drawn with ultrafine sharpies with np, and the sharpie pens are pretty sweet to work with as well. Uniball makes a great pen, it's their flagship pen(the normal one, not gel-ink) and that comes in .5 and .38 thicknesses and are very cool to work with.
As for your query to the size of my work,generally I do not like to work large, so all my drawings are on 8 1/2" x 11" standard paper by default, or smaller.
I like your work.
Creatively, allow me to echo what someone else suggested re the TNG-era Romulan symbol bird. I imagine it a black and green bat/eagle-like raptor thing. Here's one attempt I found. But I like to imagine it even more monstrous, like something out of Pitch Black.
Something to consider though, given that most of the indigenously Romulan animals are probably wildly different from the Vulcan transplants the Romulans brought with them, maybe the Romulan bird isn't the largest raptor on the planet (maybe Romulus has lots of huge flying pterosaur-like animals that look nothing like anything from Vulcan), but perhaps it's the "noblest-looking" Vulcan raptor transplant.
Or maybe it's the most intelligent - one that though smaller than the indigenous Romulan raptors, is still empress of the Romulan skies. Or it could be something from ancient Vulcan or newer Romulan mythology. Or a genetically-engineered hybrid made from indigenous Romulan pterosaurs and transplanted Vulcan birds...these people have been spacefaring and at home on Romulus for millennia - plenty of time to mix genetics. Hell, maybe the Remans (or the forehead Romulans) are a mix of Vulcanoids and original Romulan inhabitants. Lots of possibilities to run with.
Creatively, allow me to echo what someone else suggested re the TNG-era Romulan symbol bird. I imagine it a black and green bat/eagle-like raptor thing. Here's one attempt I found. But I like to imagine it even more monstrous, like something out of Pitch Black.
Something to consider though, given that most of the indigenously Romulan animals are probably wildly different from the Vulcan transplants the Romulans brought with them, maybe the Romulan bird isn't the largest raptor on the planet (maybe Romulus has lots of huge flying pterosaur-like animals that look nothing like anything from Vulcan), but perhaps it's the "noblest-looking" Vulcan raptor transplant.
Or maybe it's the most intelligent - one that though smaller than the indigenous Romulan raptors, is still empress of the Romulan skies. Or it could be something from ancient Vulcan or newer Romulan mythology. Or a genetically-engineered hybrid made from indigenous Romulan pterosaurs and transplanted Vulcan birds...these people have been spacefaring and at home on Romulus for millennia - plenty of time to mix genetics. Hell, maybe the Remans (or the forehead Romulans) are a mix of Vulcanoids and original Romulan inhabitants. Lots of possibilities to run with.
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Well actually, it is 3 legged, it lost the "arms" a long, long, time ago...then redeveloped an arm-like appendage from it's centre leg.
That last one kinda reminds me of the shark/parrot described in 2061: Odyssey Three:
The familiar can be as shocking as the strange - when it is in the wrong place. Both captain and doctor exclaimed simultaneously: 'It's a shark!'
There was just time to notice a few subtle differences - in addition to the monstrous parrot-beak - before the giant crashed back into the sea. There was an extra pair of fins - and there appeared to be no gills. Nor were there any eyes, but on either side of the beak there were curious protuberances that might be some other sense organs.
'Convergent evolution, of course,' said the doctor. 'Same problems, same solutions, on any planet. Look at Earth. Sharks, dolphins, ichthyosaurs - all oceanic predators must have the same basic design. That beak puzzles me, though -'
There was just time to notice a few subtle differences - in addition to the monstrous parrot-beak - before the giant crashed back into the sea. There was an extra pair of fins - and there appeared to be no gills. Nor were there any eyes, but on either side of the beak there were curious protuberances that might be some other sense organs.
'Convergent evolution, of course,' said the doctor. 'Same problems, same solutions, on any planet. Look at Earth. Sharks, dolphins, ichthyosaurs - all oceanic predators must have the same basic design. That beak puzzles me, though -'
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