I will be doing portraits of animals for the rest of the week. Today I painted one of my favorite reptiles, the crocodile. I ignored the smudge tool and solely used the flat round brush. I had so much fun painting this that I lost track of time and have no clue how long I spent on it. Painting from scratch in Photoshop using a wacom tablet.
I remembered Wikimedia commons is a great place for public domain and CC photos. Here is the link to the ref photo I used if your interested.
In other news I found 6 of the 7 ‘Nausicaa of the valley of the Wind’ manga graphic novels at a thrift store for the price of one. Hayao Miyazaki’s films had a major impact on me when I was younger and have watched most of his films. But I never seen his comic work before he became a director. I’m not the biggest manga fan but this is wonderful artwork. It’s all black and white with with a spot of halftone but it looks very complex even though it is simple. Wikipedia article here.
I’ve also have a urge to play ‘Shadow of the Colossus’ for some reason after looking at the comics. I have no clue why.
Painting Copyright 20213 Maugryph
Cool croc. Always good to hear about people enjoying Miyazaki’s work too. Studio Ghibli is brilliant.
If you’ll forgive the plug, I did a post a while back where I did a mini-review of every one of their films. You might be interested …
http://aholeinthehead.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/ghiblimania-part-1/
I don’t mind. It’s related to my article, so that’s fine.
love your work
thank you kindly 🙂
Nice work. I love the texture of the skin.
Thank you fojap 🙂
I have always loved your paintings!
For your wonderful posts, I have nominated you for Very Inspiring Blogger Award.
http://viewsplash.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/very-inspiring-blogger-award/
–Sam
wow. thank you 😀
Lovely work.
Thanks for your interest in Vaneesh’d! 🙂
thanks
Awesome!
thank you so much, weaver 🙂 Your origami is great. I especially like the one of gandalf 🙂
I didn’t actually invent those. Everything else on the site is by me but those instructions are made by someone else. Also, the cover Yoda is by Tom Angleberger.
Does anyone else get annoyed by people who post links to their own blogs just to get traffic?
I don’t mind them linking their site as long it is nothing indecent or a blatant ad. However it is strange that they do this because when any wordpress user comments on a wordpress blog, their link to their blog is already attached to their user name. adding a link to their blog within the comment is redundant. So they don’t need to promote like that. If they just give useful comments 1. the blogger on that site benefits and will most likely will approve their comment and check out their site and 2. the commenter get’s a free link back to his/her site for the google-bots to consume. That’s a win-win and far less awkward.
Agreed.