#illlustrations

Corinne illustrations from the Why Corinne Matters page.

And thus, after a year, I have finally completed my art trilogy

*dies quietly*

To paraphrase whoever pinched this from the original creator in the first place.

Tadanori Yokoo

World of dreams

Burnt-out Field

Spring lanterns

This world of suffering

Hey thank you so much, Anon! That's very kind of you and I really appreciate it!

I think these two were the scaliest critters I did back for the last Drawtober project: Tsuchinoko & The Gloucester Sea Serpent

First things first—lots of reference!! I think I had five or six photos of various species of snakes for each of these to help me draw the scale shapes I was after. Then, after inking the sketches, I colored them with Prismacolor markers (mostly cool greys) and started with a fairly light base color first then just built up the shading gradually. After putting down a darker layer I'd take the previous lightest color and use that to help blend the new darker layer in. Over and over again. I go through a lot of markers, haha. But yeah, just kept building it up and blending it in until it suited me. Then added a few highlights with colored pencil and/or gel pen.

For simpler, smaller & finer scales (or just skin with some extra texture), I'd just get my base colors down then go back and do some stippling with a variety of lighter and darker marker shades to add some texture, like here with the Cadborosaurus: