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RyanOttley — how to draw a creature
Published: 2012-07-17 23:30:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 13404; Favourites: 363; Downloads: 256
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Not really a "how to", more like just process pics of a creature.So I was drawing with my son and I told him to give me a scribble. That light yellow is his scribble for me.
Then I just stared at it a bit until I could see some sort of creature shape in there and started laying in shapes and form with the blue.
Then I started with the detail.
Then I spilt water on it.
Which was kinda cool because the ink bled and I was blending it together with my finger. I didn't finish it completely, but this is what I got.
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your style of drawing is quite unique and most surprinsing. An incredible piece of art, believe me!
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Step 1... Me: Okay... so I just draw some lines?
Step 2... Me: Well... that escalated quickly. ( ._.)
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thats wicked, i love usin kids scribbles. good to see a pro doin the same
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Dude so cool, Id love to see more pieces done with this process.
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crazy awesome
I am kind of in awe here
you did all of the shape and volume of the thing with no sketching
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Love the linework on this one. Really cool that you are drawing with your son too!
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Love the completed work. Thanks for showing us your process.
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Please allow me to say that you are my new "cool dad" idol. I've got a 16 month old son at home and I can't wait to give him a "scribble assignment" and go crazy with it for him like this. Also, want to thanks you for not dumbing down the monster for him. I don't know how old he is but I refuse to cutesy up monsters for kids. They're supposed to be SCARY and this thing is all kinds of scary/cool. KUDOS SIR!
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I could totally see the creature in the yellow scribble!
Genius!
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i forget where i seen the article but this reminds me of that. it was about artist that looked at childrens drawings and then they would redraw them into creatures.
it was pretty cool. as is this.
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You lost me at step one... hurr hurr
Nah but seriously, that is pretty awesome. I love how sometimes, within a scribble, monsters emerge from the imagination.
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That's pretty great. Love that it came out of playing with your son. Really fun.
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My dad used to do the same with me when I was a kid!
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Woah. I've been taking housepets and mutating them into new blends of animals but this looks a lot cooler.
Now I just need to get a kid!
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he's already better than the DC house artists.
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I used to do this with friends of mine. noone i know draws so they would all be like "how the hell did you make those random line into (add whatever here). Gotta say though Mine never came out looking so sweet.
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If that first drawing is your son's version of scribbling, something tells me he has the gift too! It looks like a gesture drawing to me. I honestly thought it was your own work until I read the accompanying text!
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Very cool.
Have you seen The Monster Engine? [link] Dave DeVries was my painting instructor at Kubert. This is what he's doing now (among other things). The whole "starting with a kid's drawing" got me thinking of it.
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Very cool! I would never have thought to lay it out in yellow. Thanks for the tip.
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I see a lizard, snake, baby bird, walrus and seafood. De-shelled and cooked, of course. Just the seafood. Cause, it would be weird otherwise.
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Oh dear God you even started in pen TT-TT This is awesome!!!
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