Thomgirl's Digital Ruminations

First pass of color on this. Several more stages to go of course!

It's looking great already, Thomgirl. Look forward to what ya do with it.

BTW, hope you're feeling better now too. - My wife's been having some medical issues this past week, so we've spent quite a bit of time running back and forth to the doctors. But might get some art time in this weekend myself.

This is really lovely T-girl!

With each new post I can see such an interesting development in your art style. It's very encouraging to see!

I also like this style and the running Jack-alope sketch if treating the same way as this one will be wonderful as well...great movement in both.

Thanks again guys for the kind words I will actually go with the sitting version of the Jackalope. I did a ton of action poses for it and I originally thought that's what I wanted but I felt like it kept loosing the rabbit look. But it will still be done in the same style. I have been studying Frazetta's drawings a lot and I feel like this is the closest I've come to emulating that a bit. And something about line work just... is fun for me when working with really vibrant colors. I wanted it to be nice and clear and something hopefully a child will enjoy looking at as well as the parents

[Edit] Hey Dave! Sorry, I missed your post after I had posted this! I am feeling good just very very pregnant now. I have 3 weeks or so till I'm due and I am certainly feeling it! But I am far from complaining, I've had a very easy pregnancy so if the last month is where I'm finally having to have the husband do all the heavy lifting around here, I figure I'm doing okay!

This is really nice. It's a great lively drawing and the form is building up very well.

So... close to done on this... not sure I really like the scales though. I used a brush set for them, but I'm not totally sold on it. I sorta wanted something stylized, but not sure this is working how I'd like. I might redo them with a different brush set up that gives me more personal control in pressure and size.

Love the colors on this one! The mane, tail and leg-fur looks fantastic. But you might be right about the scales. But I bet if they were sized & angled to follow the muscle flow, I think they would work a lot better. It also kind-of flattens down the areas where they are placed right now too.

I quite like the scales. Dave is right about following the contours and form, but I still think you have a good idea going on here.

In my experience a textured overlay looks better than a textured brush.