Tag: prints

March 22, 2013

New – Dinosaur and Animal Greeting Cards

After a couple days of testing and printing, I’ve got new greeting cards!

I’ve made each of my swirly drawings into a 5×7 greeting card. I got some really nice artist-grade cotton fiber card stock to print them on, and I am so pleased with the way the colors turned out. They are so bright and vivid, and the blacks of the swirly animals really pop out in contrast. These are just blank inside, so you can use them for any occasion like birthdays, thank you’s, thinking of you, etc. You could also use them as simple note cards. I also got some really nice smooth white envelopes to include with each.

I have added these all as individual items in my Etsy Shop. Next up for me is making sets of these cards, so you’ll be able to get 5 cards for the price of four. I’m thinking of doing a dinosaur set, a marine animals set, and then an open set where you can pick five cards of whatever you want!

You can see all of the cards in their own section here.

March 18, 2013

More Dinosaur Illustrations – Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Parasaurolophus

This week I have finished up a series of dinosaur illustrations. In my last post, you saw my brontosaurus drawings, and here you’ll see I’ve finished up the series with a Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, and some type of a Parasaurolophus.

Here’s Mr. Stego:

My favorite dinosaur when I was a kid was the stegosaurus. I always thought his back plates and his spiky tail were so cool. He just looks the neatest. I really like how the background on this one came out. He’s sort of a reggae stego.

What’s a dino collection without a T-Rex? Here he is, with his strong back legs, scary growl and wussy little arms. Don’t mess with him.

Last but not least, a generic parasaurolophus. Apparently there are a few different types of dinosaur species with this weird cranial crest. I added this guy in, because I always felt like he was also an iconic type of dinosaur, but no one ever seems to know what he is called. PARASAUROLOLOSAURAOLOFALOPAPHUS!

Look how cute they look all together! I have these as prints in my Etsy shop for now. If all goes well, I am planning to put a few of these dinosaurs on kids’ shirts. I can definitely see the stego looking really cute on a bright blue shirt in orange ink (or something like that).

Here are links to each of these three prints:

Next up on the project list for me are greeting cards and postcards! I’ll have all of my swirly designs available on cards pretty soon.

March 13, 2013

New Brontosaurus Illustrations & Prints

After a few weeks of doing a bunch of work on my computer, I was happy to sit down and get to some drawing again. After doing my Champy illustration, I wanted to do a few more types of dinosaurs. I loved dinosaurs when I was a little kid, and I still think they are fun now. One of my favorites right now is the Brontosaurus, or more properly, the Apatosaurus. I just love their long necks they use to chomp prehistoric palm frond-like leaves from the tops of high trees. I like how they hang out in ponds to soak and are gentle giants.

So, I sat down and did a couple swirly drawings.

I did the orange brontosaurus first.

At first, I wasn’t sure I liked how he was coming out. I did his head and face first. I get really nervous when I do the faces of animals, because I feel like that’s where most of their personality comes from. Once I started finishing the rest of him, though, I got to liking him and his personality. I feel like he might not be the smartest bronty on the block, but he’d be a good friend.

I wanted to try again to draw a more “cute” looking brontosaurus, and I came up with this:

I think he turned out cuter, even though he does have a little bit of a mischievous look on his face.

My dinosaur series is expanding, and I’m planning to do some more next – a stegosaurus, t-rex, and parasaurolophus (the one with the thing on it’s head).

Both of these brontosauruses (brontosaurii??) are available as prints.

Find them in my Etsy shop, or use individual links to each listing: