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Post by mitchrobot4 on Nov 10, 2010 7:55:31 GMT
resculpted it, felt the skull was waaaayyyyyy wrong. also matched the proportions a little closer to a bird. you cant see em in the pic, but once i paint them a little darker the pin feathers on the arms and down the head and back will show better. eyes need more paint too. thin, clear umbilical cord, something closer to in-the-egg animals, that will also be elastic is also almost done... one more coat of paint, some highlights and another wash or two! add umbilical then the jar.... almost done ;D   next up will maybe be a tric or a spino, not sure yet  |
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Post by mitchrobot4 on Jan 18, 2011 22:21:15 GMT
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Post by Horridus on Jan 18, 2011 22:24:51 GMT
Looking good. Unsettling, but very good. One point - the hands should not be facing downwards in the 'bunny hands' position (like in Jurassic Park). Instead, the palms should face each other. Y'know, clapping, not slapping and all that. You joins a dinosaur forum, you gets the nerds ;D EDIT: Actually, I've had another look and you might have got it right. It's hard to tell in the pics. So sorry if you have!  |
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Post by mitchrobot4 on Jan 19, 2011 2:40:59 GMT
thanks  im basing the arms off a fetal birds wings so i *think* the bends and the palms will be going the right directions . no bunny arms here! ive got the neck done and the pin feathers on one arm done so far, having issues with teh fingers...i really dont like using sculpey...its a nightmare to work with, but i have a ton of it at the moment  |
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Post by Blade-of-the-Moon on Jan 19, 2011 2:50:01 GMT
Those children thought they were going to enjoy some ice cream, and they got ripped apart. Great work! That usually happens when large voracious therapods meet people....or when clowns are serving the ice cream... ;D Nice work ! |
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Post by Blade-of-the-Moon on Jan 19, 2011 2:54:23 GMT
thanks im basing the arms off a fetal birds wings so i *think* the bends and the palms will be going the right directions . no bunny arms here! ive got the neck done and the pin feathers on one arm done so far, having issues with teh fingers...i really dont like using sculpey...its a nightmare to work with, but i have a ton of it at the moment Those would look awesome on a Jurassic Park fan's shelf... ;D |
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Post by Griffin on Jan 19, 2011 4:18:32 GMT
wow really cool! creepy. but cool.
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Post by mitchrobot4 on Feb 6, 2011 8:25:11 GMT
almost done . over all happy with it (except with the hands and lack of more pin-feathers, the sculpey im using is brutally old and well...sucks to work with, so i started getting tired of fingers breaking off and got lazy )  |
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Post by Himmapaan on Feb 6, 2011 11:16:28 GMT
Oh, it looks excellent.  Is that an actual honeycomb it's resting on? |
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Post by mitchrobot4 on Feb 6, 2011 16:51:32 GMT
thanks its sitting on an old wasp nest |
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Post by Himmapaan on Feb 6, 2011 18:49:29 GMT
A wasp's nest, but of course! I've always wanted a wasp's nest. (odd thing to wish for, I know, but probably not too odd for this forum ;D) |
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Post by totoro on Feb 6, 2011 21:27:00 GMT
That looks great mitchrobot4, nice job! And Himmapaan, I agree, wasp nests can be beautiful. Especially the paper wasp nests encased in stratified lines like this: sherrychandler.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/british_wasps_nest.jpg. I see a lot of these here in Oregon and have a large one in my office at work that I picked up one fall after the frosts drove the wasps out. One of the most beautiful things I ever saw was on a show called Acorn, the Nature Nut, where an artist had caged a colony of wasps in a large mesh chamber and supplied only colored construction paper for them to use. The nest was a rainbow of colors, and was just spectacular. I couldn't find a photo, but here's an artists rendition of it: jasonzimmerman.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/WASP_NEST_FINAL.jpgAnother similar approach is often done with caddisfly larvae, given only gold, pearls, jewels, etc. from which to build their protective cylindrical chambers. Here's what those looks like: 25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxl3vwJ7Nd1qz5stvo1_500.jpg |
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Post by Himmapaan on Feb 6, 2011 21:50:03 GMT
Totoro, those are incredible! How beautiful must the real rainbow-coloured nest have looked! I can't seem to access the first link though, but from what you describe (and part of what the link itself reads), I'm guessing that that is exactly the kind I like best too. (Sorry to have diverted from your thread somewhat, Mitchrobot) |
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Post by mitchrobot4 on Feb 14, 2011 7:04:03 GMT
wish i had a scanner... quick sketch of a drowned t.rex with a bunch of fish hanging about   need to reference some more fossils, and still not positive i want it to have some feathers or not. also not sure how i want the lighting to go before i start adding ink. will update as i slowly get more work done |
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Post by mitchrobot4 on Feb 14, 2011 7:09:23 GMT
Himmapaan, if you have an interest in wasp keeping try catching a nest in the spring (nest, queen, workers). i actually had some luck with paper wasps this year (my main hobby is keeping invertebrates of sorts, tons and tons of tarantulas). trick it to locate a small nest, and catch them early morning while theyre still slow. i managed to catch two, lost the buggers while i was out of town though  . very cool bugs, they show many forms of 'communication' in their threat displays (i was able to feed the things with tongs after a while, or let them hunt on their own). i hear its tricky to over winter the queen though, but i havnt had to do that myself yet as for the nest builders that make those big fancy nests, i have an empy one thats half the size of a basket ball, huge! i hear these are more....defensive. very cool bugs either way |
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Post by Horridus on Feb 14, 2011 14:46:26 GMT
You could go either way with the feathers at the moment. I'd personally love to see another fuzzy tyrannosaur, but I know other people would turn their noses up |
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Post by Himmapaan on Feb 14, 2011 17:28:50 GMT
That is a beautiful sketch, Mitchrobot! I look forward to seeing it progress. I don't think I am equal to actual waspkeeping, unfortunately -- for many reasons. ;D But I would so love to have an empty wasps' nest, especially the kind Totoro posted (I can access the first link now, by the way, by copying and pasting instead of clicking it  . |
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Post by mitchrobot4 on Feb 16, 2011 18:49:46 GMT
quick update, much left to do, i must admit, i get burned out on inking with pens  |
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Post by Griffin on Feb 16, 2011 21:25:04 GMT
Wow really cool drawing. I like how its of something not usually depicted. As for the feathers you could go either way as of now without worry of it being stamped "inaccurate".
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Post by mitchrobot4 on Feb 21, 2011 5:10:20 GMT
heres the big guy...as done as this is going to get ;D im more or less happy with how it turned out, except i have to go over the darkest parts again as the ink faded pretty bad! that and i chickened out on adding more feathers...im a fan of the feathered rex, but i just didnt have it in me to try to get the look of all them feathers under water, maybe ill get back to that in another piece.   next picture i work on will probably be an acrocanthosaurus (my second favorite dinosaur after the big T) eating a bunch of little kids or maybe some helicoprion. ill update once i get another sketch done |
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. very cool bugs, they show many forms of 'communication' in their threat displays (i was able to feed the things with tongs after a while, or let them hunt on their own). i hear its tricky to over winter the queen though, but i havnt had to do that myself yet 
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