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Title: Temeraire admiring his jewelry
Gift for: tylercat
Artist: ratcreature
Rating:: G
Fandom: Temeraire Series by Naomi Novik
Characters: Temeraire
Warnings: None
Artist notes: This was done in pencil and then inked and
colored in GIMP. (If my recipient were interested in a high resolution
version suitable for printing rather than just the screen size image,
a much larger version exists and I could send that to them later.)
Summary: --

Comments

[ratcreature]

Thank you, and I'm glad that Temeraire's personality comes through. As for the rock, I don't draw nature often and have trouble with it too, so I just more or less followed the step by step advice from the chapter on mountains and rocks from Jack Hamm's book "Drawing Scenery: landscapes and seascapes", because I was too lazy to look at real rocks and then try and figure out how to make a drawing look like that. I'm thrilled to hear this tactic worked! (I kind of suck at drawing from nature in general, probably lack of practice, so I went the "drawing nature for dummies" route rather than the "proper" way of observing things...*G*)