
I will be trying out a few different "textures" on the next few MACRODONS as studies for the new toy concept I am developing. This is the final body shape, as can be seen further developed and in various angles in the past few posts.

Same as before, to clean up the design, I inked the outlines of each figure.


I took one of the figures from the previous set of illustrations and began fleshing it out some -trying to figure it out three-dimensionally.


I have tightened up each figure with an ink outline.
The shape I am aiming for becomes a little more clear here.

For the next few posts I am going to try and work out a new MACRODON toy/sculpture. So here are the some rough conceptual sketches in pencil.

sketchbook #2 is now complete!
[this sketchbook is an open-spine-bound book, with wood covers, some odd decorative stitching, and it contains 112 illustrations on rag paper, including #'s 045 - 156 +]

once again the lower-body is based on these macrodons: #122 & #139.

macroEXPLODEdon !

I've been re-watching some LOST lately, so maybe you can see that I drew this MACRODON with the "smoke monster" in mind... season 5 starts tomorrow at 8c.

this design would look much better from the side, or in 3-D,
it is sort of boring from the front...

I couldn't decide on the 'head'... so it is only 'kinda' there.

this is the first MACRODON sketch to have...
-eyes?
-spots?
-holes?

Most MACRODONS share a variety of characteristics...
eventually I'd like to make an evolutionary "family tree" of sorts.
For now, specifically for this MACRODON, I was looking at #122 for the lower body & appendages, #073 inspired the head-shape, and I added the texture from the recent #129th illustration.