My art work

Ptyra · **on:** January 01, 2008, 04:28:47 PM

On my artpage for an Animals of Farthing Wood message board, I have 21 pages...I highly doubt I'll get that far, but if I dig out some of my LBT stuff...

Anyway, here's two

A pic of my char, Ptyra, which I drew ages ago last year

And my so-much-better avatar

Chiletrek · **Reply #1 on:** January 01, 2008, 06:22:18 PM

Hello:
It is perhaps much better than anything I could do for LBT pics, but I hope you'll get to post more of your pics in here, specially about your characters as you just did

.
Keep it up!

Kor · **Reply #2 on:** January 01, 2008, 06:28:10 PM

Hope you draw more and share here. Nice picture.

Malte279 · **Reply #3 on:** January 02, 2008, 08:10:16 AM

Nice work!

When some time ago you asked for someone to draw a picture of Ptyra I gave it a try but failed miserably. For some reason my drawings never looked like anything but an older Petrie or younger Pterano. There was nothing feminine about the characters and I was wondering how to draw dinosaurs and give them a female look (I think I started a thread about it back then).
In case of your drawing it is easy to recognize the flyer as female. I see you gave her a short beak, eyelashes, and a smaller crest. Are there any other elements you had to attend to when giving Ptyra a feminine look?

Ptyra · **Reply #4 on:** January 02, 2008, 01:15:28 PM

I always end up with small beaks

'Course, the first femine things any one thinks of is eyelashes (but then again, Littlefoot has them XD), but then the crest is an important detail for female fliers. I would also suggest she'd be kind of...thin...sleeker and smaller bodied than a male, and then lighter colors. Dark colors would be considered more masculine, and lighter femine.

Sky · **Reply #5 on:** January 02, 2008, 01:51:56 PM

I like female dinosaurs. ^_^
It's a nice picture indeed. Hope you post more art.

Chiletrek · **Reply #6 on:** January 02, 2008, 04:10:10 PM

Hello:
I agree, I hope you can post more, and thanks for the tips about female dinosaurs, they are sure things to be considered, really :^.^: .

Ptyra · **Reply #7 on:** January 03, 2008, 11:50:32 PM

I actually did do another pic of Ptyra!

Here we see her as a hatchling running off with a fish (some prehistoric sardine :blink: ? )

Complete with the wise words of daddy

Kor · **Reply #8 on:** January 04, 2008, 01:11:27 AM

Good drawing, and very cute looking too.

Sky · **Reply #9 on:** January 04, 2008, 05:19:49 AM

Aww, how cute. ^_^ It's really good.

What are you using to draw these? Just being curios.

Kor · **Reply #10 on:** January 04, 2008, 12:37:28 PM

Also do you draw on paper and scan it in, or use a tablet and draw into some sort of program? Any touch ups you do once its on your pc?

Ptyra · **Reply #11 on:** January 04, 2008, 05:47:49 PM

I did the avatar on MS paint, Ptyra-with-fish on photoshop, and the first Ptyra pic on MS paint and paper. I'd show you some of my AoFW fanart, but I've drawn so much of Adder/Sinuous, it would turn into another AoFW art thread

'Kay, just have a look-see at this...it has my AoFW arts! I want to stick to doing watercolor backgrounds, which is what I like to do.
'Kay, just have a look-see at this...it has my AoFW arts! I want to stick to doing watercolor backgrounds, which is what I like to do.

Kor · **Reply #12 on:** January 04, 2008, 06:36:47 PM

The snakes look neat, though I like snakes, among certain other beings, dragons, dinos, orcas, lizards.

Ptyra · **Reply #13 on:** January 06, 2008, 01:15:45 AM

This is MUCH easier to post on than my AoFW artpage! Then again, many snakies

: . But I think there's too many foxes...disgustingly too many <_<

Anyhoo, here's a sneak peek of my fanfiction. Not much of a spoiler, since I said that Pterano meets a group of fliers, whose leader has been widowed recently. (Hinthint ;-) )

I don't know how they're going to end up being cross with each other here, but I can hear Pterano saying "Excuse me, madam :angry: !?"

I really don't like drawing things of two of the same critter...one ends up bigger than the other...thus I put the female a distance in front of Pterano and used different colors for the rock, showing that one is higher up than the other.

I haven't given the female a name yet, but I was thinking of something like Ptera (said like "Terra" or the Celtic form "Tera"). She has brown colors because I absolutely LOVE earth tones! (Time to get rid of those scary flowers and pinky girly-girl colors in my room :% ! Time for browns!) I've even replaced my old blanket with an alpaca fur blanket

! (shaved off of course, I don't like anything off something dead). So, there's my character who has earthy colors (OMG! Ptera works perfect! Terra/Tera means 'earth'!)

Sky · **Reply #14 on:** January 06, 2008, 11:51:12 AM

How nice.

The look on Pteranos face is just like... how Pterano would look. xD
I wonder what the female flyer says. :unsure:

I see you're working with MS Paint. Maybe this could help you a bit (don't know if you use a tablet though):
MS Paint Tutorial
That's how I do my works.

Kor · **Reply #15 on:** January 06, 2008, 11:55:52 AM

I like the way they look. Do you like doing scenes from your fanfiction in drawings or is it just those ideas come up first. I also agree about the snakes on AoFW, far to many foxes too, and I"ve only seen a few episodes.

Chiletrek · **Reply #16 on:** January 06, 2008, 12:48:21 PM

Hello:
Yep, I knew it was Pterano when I looked at his face

. And to draw scenes from your stories can help you and even the readers to have a better glimpse about the characters and some situation, which is awesome I think.

@Sky: Cool! thanks for the tutorial

The Great Valley Guardian · **Reply #17 on:** January 06, 2008, 01:06:09 PM

@ Sky: I also have to say thanks, until I get Photoshop up and running MS paint is all I got...thank you very much!

Ptyra · **Reply #18 on:** January 06, 2008, 03:09:29 PM

@ Sky
I usually use MS paint to go over the penciled characters. I don't have many of that kind left to do, pretty soon it's going to be MS paint on its on.

Chiletrek · **Reply #19 on:** January 06, 2008, 05:53:15 PM

Hello:
I have Photoshop, but the most thing I do for it is to edit some textures for starships by, for example, adding a special layer for illuminations (like windows, thrusters) for the game Star Trek: Armada2.
I think I really need to learn to work with that program

, but no doubts Paint can also do some great stuff, after all I saw a video on youtube of someone who made a great LBT pic.