I'll kick off what I hope to be a long series with a tubby hadrosaur of some sort I drew after reading a chapter of the excellent A Smile in the Mind (designers, read it). Kind of looks like a mix of Gryposaurus and Lambeosaurus. With a strange, perhaps pathological hindlimb.
I have no idea why I was drawing my hand, but the two end up interacting in a fun way, as if I'm pretending to hold a handful of whatever seedy things hadrosaurs like to eat. I also shared this at my tumblr blog The Gallant Cannibal, where I share things that spark my curiosity as well as promote posts we write here. It's kind of become a supplement to LITC, so you may be interested in following me there, too.
It looks like it got splatted on the head with something.
ReplyDeleteI keep a separate blog for my doodles: http://dragabok.blogspot.com/
Tubby hadrosaurs. Yes, please. And I love seeing people's sketches and doodles.
ReplyDeleteThe markings running down its eye make it look as though it's in tears, the poor wee lamb.
You gotta keep a sketchbook for recording these transient visual thoughts . . . you'd be surprised how many young graphic designers don't bother any more, preferring to do everything on the computer. Nothing beats the immediacy of pencil and paper.
ReplyDeleteStu the aging designer ;-)
If my students come away from their introductory design class with nothing more than the importance of the sketchbook and pencil, I'll have succeeded.
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