2020 art summary

A lot of dinosaurs this year, only a few humans, but I'm having fun with the dinos and learning more and more about how to draw them. Mostly raptors, JP/W and not, but other kinds of dinos, too, occasionally. Still not a single straight one. 👍

Several 3D dinosaurs, too, in the form of figure repaints, and even one dino figure made completely from scratch! Really proud of how that turned out, especially considering how little sculpting I'd done before making Skye. There are some things I'd do differently now, but that's valuable lessons learned, too.

Quite a few comics, some pretty elaborate at that. Collision is going to continue into next year, but I've gotten a good chunk of it done already. Didn't publish a single text-only story this year, though I have a couple I might finish eventually, maybe next year.

Most of my original art this year has been dinosaurs, too, though I did get to cast my old human OCs as main characters in a dino comic, so that's fun.

Blank template for the graphic is by yorunaka at deviantart

Collision, page 14

Comic can be found here at my site (all pages in one), and here at deviantart (latest page).

Content warning for blood continues.

Raptor shelf refurbishing

The finished JP:TG raptors, as well as that pretty box the model kit came in, have found their way to the bookless dinosaur case. They're spilling over a bit to the other half of the shelf, but I left an empty-ish spot where the double doors' frames would cover anyone standing there while they're closed. It's a spot for long tails now, got to put those somewhere. I'm glad I could fit everyone.

And the new additions, plus Dash and Dare, facing the other way where the other half of the shelf houses miscellaneous theropods (including their favorite neighbours, the Dilos, who at the moment seem more interested in cuddling than in picking a fight with the raptor pack).

More and better photos of the JP:TG trio can now be found here at my site, and here at deviantart.

Also I made Whirlwind this cute podium out of a chocolate box, so she's not too short to be seen. The podium is barely visible back there so it didn't really need to be pretty, but, why not.

Collision, page 13

Comic can be found here at my site (all pages in one), and here at deviantart (latest page).

That warning for visible blood that I gave at the beginning of the comic is now in effect.

This is another of the pages that I thumbnailed really early on, though the details kept changing, mostly because I kept changing the order of the scenes as the story developed.

I... don't actually have much to say about this page, I'll let it speak for itself.

Incoming raptor photoshoot

The raptor trio figures are finished!

I ended up finishing the painting on Swiftdive and Treeclimber's tails sooner than expected, so they were already done by the time I started attaching them to the bases. Probably for the best.

Collision, page 12

Comic can be found here at my site (all pages in one), and here at deviantart (latest page).

New egg in the SWFL eagle nest

Harriet laid the first egg of her and M15's new clutch yesterday afternoon, with both parents at the nest tree for the occasion! (link to nestcam)

New egg cradled on mom's strong talons.

M hopped down to the nest from the attic branch to see the egg and give Harriet some gentle beakies.

Looking forward to fluffy eaglets hatching in about a month now! I'm glad they picked the old nest after all, so we can watch what they're up to.

Cat-caught tongues

The cat is actually innocent of all she is accused of here, such false advertizing.

Anyway, I made tongues for the model kit raptors out of polymer clay.

Eye pictures and eye thoughts

The raptor figures have eyes!

Stripes, eyes, and claws

Collision, page 11

Comic can be found here at my site (all pages in one), and here at deviantart (latest page).

Racing stripes

Swiftdive has the first coat of paint on her patterns. Except on the tail, which is still mostly unpainted, but we'll get to that later.

Painting everything but the nails

Leader has the first coat of paint on her stripes. I'll go over them again after finishing her base colour to give them a purple tint and to make them neater. She also got some touch-ups to her teeth, and I started on the raw sienna base colour at her face. We'll see whether she needs one or two coats of that, but her underbelly colour will probably still need another one.

Swiftdive has her base colour done, and her mouth and underbelly colour tidied up, so she'll get stripes next.

Nothing for Treeclimber this time, it's a girls' night tonight.

Belly flop into paint

Leader is starting to look more like a JP raptor rather than a JW one.

Collision, page 10

Comic can be found here at my site (all pages in one), and here at deviantart (latest page).

Broad strokes

Progress on the raptor trio.

Valoi