Thought I would share this just finished illustration with my BP.net buddies!

I thought I remember seeing a BP.net art forum here but I can't seem to find it. I could have seen it on another forum. This is an illustration I did for a friend who had just lost his old buddy a month ago. He had his Bearded Dragon "Clyde" for about 8 years I was told. He didnt have any good photos so I dug one up on the web for refference.

If we do have an appropriate forum for this I will have it moved ASAP. Let me know what you think.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...onCropcopy.jpg

That picture is really good...have you tried doing a Ball yet?


Also, how are they done? pencil, computer, paint, etc?

Hey Lord, thanks a million for the kind words.

I guess I should edit my post and explain the illustration. I did this in pen and ink using high quality rapidiograph technical pens. The whole thing is done in stipple (all dots). There is no lines or any solid colored in black in the entire illustration. This one took about 20 hours to complete.

I am going to do a nice Ball illlustration as soon as I can get the right pictue of my boy but that takes time. Your illustration is only as good as the refference you take it from ;)

Wow! You are super talented! I'm a doodler myself but I never could get the hang of any "real" media. I sketch with pencil, but anything I can't erase (pen/ink, paint, colored pencil, marker, etc.) freaks me out. I like pencil and photoshop--then if I mess up, I can fix it! I'm also too scatterbrained to work on a piece for 20 hours! I'm always impressed with artists who dare to work in un-oopsable media and actually take their time to make each piece just so. I have a lot of friends who are artists, and I admire them all for their dedication to it :)

Wow now that's a pretty sweet illustration!!! :eek:

:hug: im sooooooooo sorry :( at least you had 8 years of fun though :oops:

Sorry for the loss.... that is a phenomenal piece of work!!

Very nice picture. I'm sure your friend had to have appreciated such a wonderful gift. :gj:

(also I went ahead and moved this to the creative corner ;) )

very cool and extremely talented. you mind if I use this as my background?

Moe,

Absolutely, feel free.

Tiger,

Thanks, I found that after the fact.