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giant slug or MACRODON

BOTH!

?

what the hell?!

okay, this MACRODON (slug), sort of subconsciously spawned from thoughts of an awesome toy I just saw at the new Kidrobot store in Dallas. Frank Kozik's "Ride 'em Bob" a smorking labbit, on a smorking slug. Perfectly ridiculous. I LOVE IT.

this last section of MACRODON #327 (below) didn't really have anything to offer -aside from slug-inspiring subconscious Kidrobot memories.

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I flipped the drawing on it's side, because I don't really see too many MACRODONS flying, and one with this shape seems to need to be grounded by gravity, below it appears quite odd 'flying'.

I was having a very hard time resolving this drawing, at one point it seemed to want to go in two completely different directions, or are they 2 MACRODONS conjoined at the head?

see below for the direction the drawing didn't take, but I felt the need to attempt to resolve it via Photoshop by clocking out it's conjoined sibling.

it would appear that the last few drawings didn't really retain any significant signs of the underdrawing: MACRODON #327, just some dots...

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those are weird little feet

those are even weirder feet, almost as if little MACRODONS are attached to it's feet. And below, the mess of the prior MACRODON #327 drawing that this MACROODN and his weird feet replaced.

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MACRODON or one-eyed squid?

this section of MACRODON #327 didn't really inspire anything related to the original drawing I painted over.

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this MACRODON felt like a nebula, or galaxy, or some kind of spacial entity, so I inverted the colors in Photoshop, and I think it looks pretty bad ass!

not a lot changed between these two 'before' and 'after' drawing scans.

just about the only things to remain from the previous MACRODON #327 drawing, are the dots and stippling that went on to become stars.

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sometimes the process of drawing over MACRODON #327 was quite smooth, and certain shapes from the original section naturally gave way to a new MACRODON form.

I began by covering up most of what I didn't want from MACRODON #327 with a light wash, but as can be seen below, most of the details remain somewhat present.

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final drawing over MACRODON #327

in progress drawing over MACRODON #327, and below, the original page:

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I drew over MACRODON #327... I'm not entirely sure why, I suppose I was somewhat displeased with it... I broke-up the pages that comprised MACRODON #327 into separate MACRODON drawings, so, the next 8 posts will show a bit of the progression in this change that occurred. Above, the end result for this particular drawing.

this was the first direction the drawing went in, but it seemed too literal, too much like a dinosaur, not much abstraction or anything left to the imagination... and below, this is the dissected section of MACRODON #327:

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after a bit more work, the drawing was scanned -doing such a larger drawing (by comparison) was odd, instead of more detail work, I just used larger brushes/pencils/etc...

I have mixed feelings about the end result, but, I do like the cool snail-like shape this MACRODON has.

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I started this idea while on the beach, but needed to really be able to stretch out on a hard surface to work on it, here is a crappy photo of this 9-page drawing in my 2nd accordion-style sketchbook...