Malte's Random LBT fanart

Lain_EX · **Reply #60 on:** December 15, 2006, 01:09:42 AM

What's Petrie laughing at? I don't remember.

Malte279 · **Reply #61 on:** December 15, 2006, 04:39:59 AM

Look at everybody's faces and postures. You may be able to see what he is laughing about. I often try to make drawings which tell little stories of their own. The faces and postures are usually a giveaway about what the character's are thinking.
The last two images belong to the "same story" just with the latter being a later scene.

Petrie. · **Reply #62 on:** December 15, 2006, 07:14:05 AM

^ I know what he's laughing at. It's only because I know of what Malte's last story he was writing is about and it revolves around Cera.

Malte279 · **Reply #63 on:** December 15, 2006, 08:01:19 AM

True, but these pictures don't belong to that story. Actually I haven't posted any pictures from that story (Old Threehorns) yet except, I think, for a cover I made up for that story quite a while ago. Those pictures I posted here are not directly connected to any story of mine.
But what is Petrie laughing about Petrie?

Malte279 · **Reply #64 on:** January 02, 2007, 07:30:29 PM

In the last but one picture Cera seems to be scolding Spike who is covering low behind a rock. Whatever reason Spike may have given Cera to be angry, Littlefoot, and Petrie don't look like they think Spike deserved the lecture Cera is giving him. Ducky seems to be positively mad at Cera for treating her little brother like that (we don't see Ducky's face, but she is looking at Cera, her fists clenched).
In the second picture Ducky's care for her little brother apparently good the better part of her over her natural gentleness and her desire not to be mad at anyone. I like the dumpfounded look on the face of Cera who is falling back from Ducky obviously not accustomed to be treated like that by somebody who barely reaches over her knees. Littlefoot doesn't conceal his glee over the lesson Cera is receiving and Petrie is rolling on the floor with laughter, while Spike smiles fondly at his big protective sister

In the background of the pencil version Mr. Threehorn seems to be concerned about the safety of his daugther

Malte279 · **Reply #65 on:** January 13, 2007, 06:53:36 PM

I have a little sketchbook which is meanwhile extremely worn out. It includes the earliest land before time drawings from the time after my "LBT renaisance" in December 1998. I recall that the first LBT drawings I made by that time was one page with three images of Littlefoot and one with three Duckys. Those drawings were made after the pattern of some shots from the land before time I had in a book dating from the time before my "LBT renaisance". Regretably those two pages are gone. I never cast them afraid, but I'm afraid somebody else must have

Therefore the drawings from the sketchbook are the earliest LBT drawings I still have except for those kindergarten drawings at the beginning of this thread. Most of the drawings in the sketchbook are from 1999 and in most (not all) cases I practiced drawing LBT characters off the screen. I was looking especially for striking expressions. Perhaps you may be able to identify from which movies and which scenes some of the drawings are:

Petrie. · **Reply #66 on:** January 14, 2007, 10:20:00 AM

In those early days, seems like you had the most success with (surprise) Petrie. At least your drawing of him was consistent each time....that's what I'm going on.

Malte279 · **Reply #67 on:** January 18, 2007, 02:13:57 AM

Funny, for altogether he is the one I drew least frequently (not on those two pages I posted here but as a whole). However, he is also the only one of whom there is a freehand drawing on the two pages I posted. The image of him attacking a sharptooth's eye (I certainly drew this because there was such a scene in the fanfiction I wrote back then) is the only one for which I didn't copy any movie shot.
I do not recall every single o those images, but most of them.
Petrie from the upper left is from LBT 3 ("We no act like that!") the Littlefoot face right of that is from the same movie (the scene when Cera's father forbade her to hang around with Littlefoot, the moment when she walks towards him from behind Littlefoot). I cannot pinpoint the Ducky head to the right, but I'm quite sure it is from a similar scene of the same movie. The smiling and shrugging Ducky on the right just told Littlefoot that he is not an influence whatever that might be

The two Littlefoot heads with Ducky respectively Ducky and Petrie on his head as well as the Spike with Petrie on his head and the sad looking Cera are all from the scenes that go along with the song "Kids like us". The other Spike on that page is from the LBT 3 scene when they spot the raptors.
On the lower page LBT 5 comes in, but I cannot account for all those Littlefoot heads. The one to the left (which looks somewhat distorted; I did a bad job on that one) is from the moment after Cera proclaimed that she didn't want to hang around with threehorns only for they were to bossy. The surprised Looking Littlefoot right of that one is from the moment when he just heard Spike sniffing (smelling the Big Water). The angry looking Ducky below those two is from the scene when Spike almost ate her at the beginning of the movie. I don't remember about the other pictures on that page, but they are definitely not freehand. I suppose most of them to be from LBT 5 as well.

Malte279 · **Reply #68 on:** January 19, 2007, 02:36:19 PM

There are two drawings in that sketchbook showing a scene from the fanfiction The Big Quarrel. I drew that scene from two different angles but never made a more elaborate colored drawing of the scene.
It is quite literally a "cliffhanger" scene with Spike hanging on the cliff and Petrie and Ducky hanging on Spike. The first sketch shows the scene from above (I'm quite sure Spike's facial expression was taken from the scene in LBT 6 where he is stuck in that log while Sharptooth is approaching):

The other drawing shows the same scene from below so we see a bit more of Ducky who can hardly be seen from the other angle:

Malte279 · **Reply #69 on:** February 04, 2007, 05:05:10 PM

There are two more drawings in the sketchbook showing scenes from the story the Big Quarrel which were never turned into a more elaborate drawing, at least not in the way they were lined out in the sketchbook.

This picture shows Cera accidentaly overhearing Littlefoot. Even this sketch isn't quite finished as we don't see Ducky, Petrie, and Spike to whom Littlefoot is talking. It is still one of my earliest freehand drawings. No character in this drawing is copied from any movie scene. I never worked this one out.

In case of this drawing I did make a more elaborate color penciled drawing (the image posted on January 4th 2006), but it showed the whole scene from a totally different angle. The idea in this scene was that Cera, after drinking from a lake, sees the mirorred image of Ali behind her own reflection on the water surface and mistakes her for Littlefoot at first. While I made this drawing I realized this would require a very, very steep shore for Cera couldn't possibly see Ali's reflection unless she stood close behind and high above her. Perhaps I tried to avoid this problem when I made the final drawing from a different angle leaving out what Cera sees on the water surface. I'm not really happy having avoided rather than solved that problem <_<

Petrie. · **Reply #70 on:** February 05, 2007, 09:42:16 AM

Just viewing more sketches, I just have one question: why on graph paper? You said you never got around to coloring the pictures, but if you intended to later color these, you'd have lines through your drawing.

Malte279 · **Reply #71 on:** February 05, 2007, 10:43:15 AM

Those are just very raw sketches from the sketchbook I mentioned earlier. The sketchbook (which was not designed as a sketchbook at all) has graph paper. Those sketches in the book were never meant to be colored but were mostly to either practice drawing LBT characters (remember most of the drawings are from the time right after my "LBT renaisance") or to get just a rough idea of what a picture might look like if done more carefully on proper paper. The last four drawings were never turned into better drawings on clear paper, which is why they might be interesting as I didn't show you any final versions before.

Malte279 · **Reply #72 on:** March 16, 2007, 04:52:11 PM

This is a drawing I made last year for Aria's 19th birthday. It shows Ducky in her element. In spite of the frequent mentions of her being a swimmer this fact was of almost no significant to the plots of the movies so far. I'm thinking about a story in which her swimming abilities are of any real importance.
I'm not really happy with the underwater look of this picture, mainly because it doesn't really look like it was under water. If it wasn't for Ducky's posture and the air bubbles around her one might easily mistake the scenery for one above the water surface. I never did any under water drawings before, but I suppose their would have to be different light effects and a less clearly defined, darker background.

Malte279 · **Reply #73 on:** April 19, 2007, 04:32:34 PM

I made another little drawing during some university's lectures. I appologize for the poor quality, but it is the best I can get it without a proper scanner at hand

Malte279 · **Reply #74 on:** April 23, 2007, 05:05:52 PM

I finished another land before time acryl painting. I had begun it last year, but almost didn't continue working on it at all for months because of university exams. Anyway, here it is from the begining to the result:
These are just the rough pencil outlines on the canvas to give a rough idea what is supposed to be where:

First layers of color parting the canvas in a few "sectors":

A rather greyish background for the sky and several more layers of color only roughly "brushed" onto the canvas surface to give the rocks a little more structure:

Things begin to get "exciting". You can only guess the previous grey background of the sky in the upper left corner. The black smoke of the volcano reflects some of the reddish fire. The fire itself doesn't look too hot though:

This looks more like you could get some burned fingers from it. The lava too looks more liquid when brightened up a little:

Malte279 · **Reply #75 on:** April 23, 2007, 05:14:16 PM

Now the characters get their first color. I began with those colors which in carious shades are used for several characters:

And continued with the more individual colors. I had to completely redo Littlefoot as his color was at first way too brown. It is surprising how much white and / or grey is included in all the character's colors. I don't think I really hit the color mark in case of any of the characters but tried to get as close to the mark as possible:

Some green stuff on the mountains in the background and some eyes for the characters:

Volcano eruptions are supposed to be dangerous. I added some fire and glowing "bombs" of the volcano to point out that fact. I had meant to add a lot more of it (to demonstrate why Ducky is shielding her head with her arm) but decided I didn't want the whole thing to look too apocalyptic. This is the finished picture:

Malte279 · **Reply #76 on:** April 23, 2007, 05:17:50 PM

And here are a few closer shots at the finished characters.
Here is Cera. Note Petrie cowering down behind her frill:

Littlefoot:

Ducky and Spike. I'm afraid I stretched Ducky's left arm too far. Also her other arm doesn't stand out from her head enough:

Malte279 · **Reply #77 on:** May 16, 2007, 04:45:20 PM

Here is the colored version of the drawing I posted recently.
From her looks it seems like Cera somehow got something her way while the others don't seem to be too happy about whatever she did or may be up too.

Malte279 · **Reply #78 on:** June 22, 2007, 02:47:55 PM

This is the most recent LBT drawing I made. While the scene is not from a fanfiction I have ready in my mind a story may be built up around the scene. As I still don't have a working scanner at my disposal there are some strange light reflections on the picture which are caused by the flashlight of my camera (no flashlight made it turn out too dark and blury).

Petrie. · **Reply #79 on:** June 28, 2007, 09:21:11 PM

I didn't know what the heck an acryl painting was before, but now I do. Now what I like about that is how it gives the impression of three dimensions yet it really isn't and it all comes down to the colors chosen to represent the depth.

That's really sweet.

The rest of these sketches I haven't seem before. What I have noticed through the years is your characters have become less blocky and more rounded especially in the legs and torso. This continues to improve.