today's na'art -- waking my muse was like pulling teeth... But I finally got something I like:

[capriuni]

Good Green Apples! took me forever to get motivated for na'arting, today... Couldn't settle on what I was in the mood for drawing... after trying about four different ideas, finally decided to draw a "Seriously rendered" but "Cartoon" creature:



Question: would you wear a shirt with this figure on it? With a slogan/motto? Without one?

Comments

[pebblerocker]

I love this birdcreature! Excellent job of the shading and feathers, and I love its many tiny feet.

I think it would look great on a shirt! It would look (well, in my possibly laggard and inexpert view) very fashionable printed very big to fill the entire front of a loose-fitting pale-coloured shirt. I envision someone wearing it with denim capri pants and lots of wooden beads or something. Of course I wouldn't wear it like that... for myself I'd probably want it to be a bit smaller and have a heavy border around the image like a frame.

[capriuni]

for myself I'd probably want it to be a bit smaller and have a heavy border around the image like a frame.

That is entirely doable. How about a drawing of an actual picture frame, also in pencil? Maybe with a little nail and hanging wire, too? ... Might also be interesting if it were off-center, as in the upper left quadrant of the chest...

[spiralsheep]

That's perfect in every way. :-)

[capriuni]

\o/

[raze]

Oh, man! I love this!

[capriuni]

Ooh, coming from the Maven of the Monstrous, this is high praise indeed!

[smw]

I love how this little guy pops off the page – and the fact that it's still very much your style. If not for the fact that I don't trust a bird with teeth, I'd say he looks like he'd be fun to have around.

[capriuni]

One reason it "pops" is that I clicked "Auto enhance" on my photo editing program... since it assumed that it's dealing with a photographic image, it darkened everything up (because, if it were a photo, it would be overexposed), and sharpened the edges of the details. Then I cut out all the "darkened" white of the paper around the image.

As for his monstrousness, I'm more suspicious of his horns, since, evolutionarily speaking, birds are cousins to T Rex. But really, it's a pet peeve of mine (About kiddie lit, in particular) when monsters are defined as being "nice" or "mean" on if they have sharp teeth or not... it's not whether you have teeth (horns, sharp claws, poisonous spines, etc.), it's how and when you choose to use them.

(Which is one reason I love Frazzle, from old-time Sesame Street [YouTube])