157 (texture studies pt.5)

hah! I am not going to attempt to sculpt this texture,
although awesome... too time consuming for now...

157 (texture studies pt.4) +158

from these studies for "#157", I was going for the texture of #158 here, above,
and failed with this:

this just looks like a bad sketch for the bark textures seen a few posts ago...





So, I sketched out some lines in Photoshop with my drawing tablet from this scan/composite:




(here I took #158, and distorted it into the shape of #157,
using the exact same texture, and I think it turned out o.k.)

157 (texture studies pt.3)

This design looks like I just phoned it in... but really, I got stuck on a few other designs I could not work out, so this is all for now...

157 (texture studies pt.2)

tree bark was my inspiration here.

157 (texture studies pt.1)

Here is the first in several designs for the texture of this MACRODON.