Oh! More Dragons!

Another Sketch Dump!

What's this? More dragons?

Clownfish mermaid.
Why I drew boobs, I don't know.
Fish ain't mammals.

A harpy.
You'll notice that I left the breasts off this one.
Birds don't got boobs either.

Wampire!

Annnnd, another dragon

Cutie Creepies

It's Friday, and I'm tired and not using the word-type things so well, so here are some random doodles from my sketchbook...

The evolution of dragons...

I do like drawing dragons :D

I've been drawing them since I was a kid.

Oh - this is embarrassing. From 1994-ish.

Spiky Dragon, circa 1995.

'96 or so.

These are the earliest drawings of mine that I still have.

2001? or '02. 'Round then anyway.

Now, a bunch from last year:

One of my fabric designs at Spoonflower.com

An exemplar for a digital painting class I taught last year.

Currently, my dragons have been rather crocodilish looking.

Elves too. I like elves.

Foxes

I've been struck by a foxy bug recently - and it seems I'm seeing them everywhere I go online at the moment.

O HAI DERE!

I decided that the fact I see a fox online almost everyday without searching for them meant that I should make a fox-themed doll, so I've done some concepts for, and have started sculpting, a doll who is going to be a Kitsune - a fox spirit.

Multiple tails on the coat? What was I thinking?!?

Playing around with Kitsune and Masquerade mask forms.

"If I stand like this, no-one will notice how crappily  my feet are drawn."

Initial Sketch of doll with joints and junk.

 

But then, while researching for my doll, I came across this image of a tattoo by artist Zach Spurlock:

So freaking cool

Now, I've been contemplating getting a half-sleeve tattoo for a while now, but had been stuck on the content. I knew I wanted a traditional Irezumi style design (my father is a tattooist - and this is the style of his half-sleeves) and thought I'd get a horse (I was born in the year of the horse) or a dragon (because, Dragon).

And the idea of getting a nine-tailed fox has stuck. Every time I sit down with the intention to do some concept sketches for my tattoo, I end up drawing foxes.

urgh - those back legs!

Screw it - I'll just draw clouds or something ;D

The red pencil sketch is my favourite so far.

I'm going to nerd it up a bit - I'm an Animation Tutor as the Day Job, so the fox's tails will be enacting an animation technique called the Wave Principle. I might put an antique key in it's mouth or around it's neck (because Key poses, geddit?). 

One reason why a fox tattoo is appropriate for an animator...

And The Fox and The Hound is one of the first movies I remember seeing as a kid, so yeah. I toyed around with the idea of just getting a tattoo of Todd, but no, I'd rather get the traditional style rather than a cartoony one. 

Carousel Monsters

Some sketches for an upcoming Spoonflower contest...

A Chimera - the goat head is in the wrong place
...must fix that.

A Manticore and Dragon

And a Griffin and Hippokampoi...