clairemation

Love me then, pg 3

When things take a ✨turn✨

Amargasaurus, I kinda forgot to indicate the structure of the spines within the sail

Bajadasaurus

Close relative of Amargasaurus, with forward-pointing spines. But the holotype is missing all its vertebrae except the first two, leaving room for speculation. So I decided to make each spine longer than the last. Managed to briefly make @knuppitalism-with-ue speechless at the implausibility 😆

Oops

I have been spending a lot of time developing that fancomic I was talking about making. So much, in fact, that, in what may come as a disappointment to like five people, I’ve decided to make it an original work instead of a fancomic of that thing. But hopefully, if you like the thing that inspired it, you’ll still love this!

The bright side is that I now get to really push the designs to support my story and play up the vibes I’m going for!

These characters are from the same project as the one further down on my blog. They still don’t have official names.

More Olympic Torchbearer content coming… sometime! I’m working on it!

ART PROCESS RAMBLING BELOW:

(Edit: I edited in an even MORE finished version! 😆)

Stuck on a design point for the torchbearer & flagbearer story I'm cooking up

In my story, both characters are former humans who lived and died during the French Revolution. In flashback segments, I want to keep their appearances ambiguous. I don’t want to override readers’ preferred mental image (or lack thereof) with my own. And I don’t want the "phantom" versions to have less presence/charisma in comparison.

Even a silhouette would require me to reveal a face shape and hairstyle. So I need to obscure the WHOLE head area down to the shoulder to keep it totally ambiguous.

Problem is, this constrains the acting. I can get around lack of a face, but losing the whole head AREA makes it hard to even make expressive body poses.

How can I keep head anatomy and hairstyle completely ambiguous, but still be able to indicate neck and head position? 🤔

I’m still here!

Some quick action studies of the masked torchbearer from the Paris Olympics opening ceremonies. How is he so… aaahhhhh… without even a face 🫣 Anyway his outfit makes it easy to sketch gestures with just big brush passages, which I find very satisfying

More rough concepting for the co-lead of this thing. She’s an ancient cosmic demoness who feeds on terror ☺️

When designing, I sometimes find it nice to just jump in with a large brush and paint in shapes rather than line.