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Break from the Moleskine sketchbook, this is a painting in progress on a 12 x 12 inch wood panel... still can't seem to break from the black and white... (pictured above a before and after... still more to come)

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This was a weird process, I started with a couple of ideas, and wanted to work them both out (first and second drawings), then, the paint sort of took over (see the third one), and from there this final (fourth) variation spawned.

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india ink over wet acrylic paint = super rad cracking effect !

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this is simply a MACRODON illustration, but tonite, the History channel was trying to convince me that there are still Pterosaurs (from the Cretaceous period) still alive in Papua New Guinea... I'm not buying it (or perhaps, they are MACRODONS!

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For the 303rd post -this is the last of these half bulked up gnarly MACRODONS. Also, my favorite of the bunch. It does need a better descriptor though, or a name of some sort...

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and here the size and bulk of the right arm is too over-the-top... also because of it's placement, the right leg doesn't even look much bigger than the left leg... even below it is barely visible.

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the sketch (below) shows a much more gnarly version of this MACRODON's left side, at one point it was so twisted and contorted that his left appendages where almost non-existent and useless (the left leg didn't even touch the ground). But, there was something off about that that I didn't like, so instead of the gnarly look of the "small"/"weak" side that I had previously gone for, this one's left side is more limp-looking.

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in this version the head seems sort of out of place in the final drawing, but not so much in the sketch:

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a reoccurring feature that I wasn't too crazy about is this GIANT shoulder (seen better below), so, I made it a touch more subtle in the drawing above.

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the next few posts are all similar to this MACRODON -recently I had made several rough sketches of this half-gnarled, half-buff figure, but I don't really know where this idea came from (?) inital sketch below:

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