Day 38 of 100 Days of Making Comics

Hey, I'm Anna Raub [AKA: Mask Woman from the Turaco Creative Cast] I'm doing the 100 Days of Making Comics Challenge [courtesy of Kevin Cross.]   

 

1/19/2021 - Day 38: A little over an hour went into furthering the Endstar Arrival project today. I picked up where I left off yesterday, but decided to start work on a model sheet for Scruffy, which is going well in spite of the minor size discrepancies that I ran into in my reference drawings. Outside the hour, I spent some more time drawing dragons for a different story, and wrote several ideas down.

Progress Screenshots: [A lot of chaotic layer stacking went on today. I morphed, resized, contrasted, spliced and overlapped drawings. It was all to problem solve for character size ratios in preparation for a new set of model sheets.]

 

[... And out of the mess, something was able to take shape. The beginning of a Scruffy model sheet.]

[Oh and dragons. Some extra time on the side went into sketching a few minor deviations on my purple wyvern dragons from earlier.]

[full color concept art -]

[- And a darkness variant, where I practiced something a little different for a few minutes with a couple of layer adjustments and a white brush.]

 Other Notes: 

• Today's random interesting animal: What has long legs, is called a wolf, looks like a fox, and isn’t either of those things? A Maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) which is indigenous to central and eastern South America. It’s an unusual canine that’s alone as the only species of its genus, and unlike many of its other canine relatives, it generally leads a solitary lifestyle without forming a pack. As an omnivorous hunter and scavenger, a sizable portion of its natural diet is made up of vegetative matter. 

• Interestingly, the Maned wolf plays an important role in seed dispersal, and one of the plants that it is known to commonly feed upon, is the tomato-like wolf apple (Solanum lycocarpum) which aren't technically apples, but are nightshades in the same wide plant family that tomatoes belong to.

• you're welcome to name a random animal in the comments for me to read about as well if you want.

• TOOLS USED for the art in this post: Autodesk sketchbook on the ipad pro.

Thank you for Reading! :)

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