Dinosaur Art For Your Critique
iamfritz
whoever is interested in critiquing them, to pay a visit and let me
know what you think.
I have consulted with some of the professors at the BYU Earth Science
Museum and done lots of other research to get these as realistic as
possible. I have enough local interest that I'm thinking of publishing
my whole portfolio as a book of dino-illustrations.
Here's the page:
http://www.fritzfx.8m.com/dinofx.html
Please ignore the sales pitches and so forth- (they're for future ebay
sales) and don't visit too much because it's s free site and too many
hits will shut me down (I use this site for potential employers to
view my portfolio).
Thanks you in advance,
Fritz Gunter
SOGGYNETNUT
I am a commercial artist( signs / murals ) and an amatuer paleontologist .
Most graphic designers I went to school with where a little week at
illustration and fine art skills . Which is why they became graphic artists .
This critique is to help you improve as an artist .
In your drawings the ability to render them accuratly and in proportion is
fine .
What struck me as a weeknees is your lack of solid deep black shading and
highlight whites of the paper .
Look at a gray scale of ten steps of white to black . In the future try to
incorperate more gradations of darkest black and white highlights.
In fine art drawings its desirable to avoid out lines . It makes the images
apear flatter and like cut out paper .
Expirament with alternative ways to shade .
Draw another dinosaur in light lines and shade it in with a Q-tip rubbed in
very dark ebony pencil graphite . That is , take an ebony pencil on itside and
draw a black square 1 x 1 inch on a seperate piece of paper . Rub your Q tip
over this and use the picked up graphit as your shading method . The results
will be like an air brushed illustration .You can also use an eraser on its
side the tan soft crumbly art kind to smoth graphite shading . You can
actualy substitute the Q tip with the eraser to transfer the graphie shading
. Its a dramatic look . The traditional line shading works fine as well .
I have to run ... kids .... Good luck .
Greg.
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"iamfritz" <iamf...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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The good news is they look life like. The bad news is the Rex has much to
much croc in it to match up with what I've been lead to believe the real
beast looked like. It does look like a real beast and like something that at
least could have lived. A rex had longer legs and had no trouble getting its
feet under the center of gravity. I do like the rex picture though. It is by
far the most detailed. I guess I would call it a powerful flesh eater rather
like what I think may have preceded the dinos due to the posture of the rear
legs though the front arms and overall shape of the rest of the body is Rex.
The scales are croc rather than rex. I may use it illustrate one of my
stories that I write for my eyes only. Yes the picture is yours. I don't
have any right to use if for anything without your express written
permission. If I ever let anyone else see the story I will remove the
picture or make a deal to send you some money. It is just a word text fill
on my computer. If you expect people to buy these things they will have to
see something and they may want to put them in stories before they decide if
they want to use that picture or something else. Just don't post your best
work full size at its highest possible resolution. There is a way to make
your pictures transparent when down loaded and saved though I think there is
a way to defeat that. No I can't tell you how to do this but I have seen it
done and I didn't bother as yet to try and defeat it. Have fun and I wish
you the best success in your career.
I think the dimensions of the other animals were more anatomically
correct but detail was lacking.
KingLeon
Well, Fritz, I'm not an artist or anything, but I do know stuff about
dinosaurs. You're pretty good, as far as I can see. The T-rex looks
abit bulky to me, though. I'm not too sure it would have skin so akin
to a crocodile, either.
You sure love Allosaur species, don't you? You're just like my little
brother. He's a huge Allosaur fan. Or, was... Then he liked
jet-planes. Go figure. Anyway, they are an interesting genus,
especially behaviorally.
Personally, my favorite is the one titled "what's that".
I have to ask though... shouldn't the knobs on the Gigantosaur be more
pronounced than that? I might be wrong. It's been a while since I last
saw a picture of the skull.
-Dave
Nick Gardner
NG
iamfritz
Thanks for all the positive and helpful feedback!
Thanks for the artistic input- these are not finished sketches, but
it's been a while since my art clsses and any help there can only
help, unless someone recommends crayola.
I like the allosaur because its fossils indicate a more active
predatory lifestyle than the tyrannosaurs. And, fleshed out, I'm
sorry, but I think its prettier too. So, I have to admit scaling it
out like that was an act of species bias. Another sketch I have is
probably more accurate.
Anyways, thanks for your input andplease- keep it coming!
Fritz
Nick Gardner
> I like the allosaur because its fossils indicate a more active
> predatory lifestyle than the tyrannosaurs. And, fleshed out, I'm
> sorry, but I think its prettier too.
Yes, the elongate lacrimal crests and nasal ridges do contribute to
much of the aestesthic pleasure of allosaurs. However, fossil
evidence so far still indicates active predation for tyrannosaurids,
in otherwords, Horner's wrong. I like tyrannosaurids because of their
inate "birdy"-ness. Still the macho reptilian though! Jugal bosses,
orbital crests, nasal rugosities! Skull ornamentation is just plainout
tight.
NG