Christmasaurus Rex

DMAC

Season's greetings, everyone. Here is my Christmas card for this year:



Also, I did a little holiday pencil illustration for Kobold Quarterly:

NibCrom

I love the scales and detailing on that Rex, DMAC. I admire your patience and attention to detail.

Merry Christmas!

Kochikens

T-rex, you can't even hold that cookie, just give it to me

DMAC

Yeah, I'm not sure how he's gripping that thing. Maybe it's stuck to his hand with icing.

Also, I'm pretty sure someone else would have had to put that Santa hat on his head.

KalTorak

Maybe that's why he's so mad.

NibCrom

I'm sure he had another dinosaur help him out. Someone else had to take the picture, right? Although I guess he could have used the timer...

Is the Rex a pencil drawing with Photoshop colors?

DMAC

Yep. I'll maybe post just the pencils later.

ocpmovie

=D

Merry Christmas!

Flay

Christmasaurus Rex only gives presents to clever girls and boys.

(This is brilliant!)

DMAC

Here are the uncolored pencils:

Grenn

Awesome work DMAC, I'm always amazing at the patience you have for applying the detail. Inspiring stuff. :^:

Oh, and Merry Christmas to you too!

pineappleherb

quality work brother, very very well done

NightDragon

Do you use more than one hardness of pencil, or is that all the same? Also, how do you keep from smudging anything at all? Do you use a glove? Or do you rest your hand on something...? Or maybe it's magic.

Also, how much digital "cleaning up" do you do, if any?

Mostly I'm just wondering how your dark lines are so crisply black, and how even though you most likely bumped up the white (and probably the darks too) a bit, there's still the very light midtones there. Do you ever go over the darker lines in Photoshop to really make them black (like the fur lining on the hood, for instance)?

DMAC

I used two pencils. I think I did most of it with an H and then went back over the outlines with an HB to darken them up a bit.

I always have a piece of paper to rest my hand on when I work since I hold pencils right down at the tip and would totally have a big gray blob otherwise.

I didn't have to do too much clean up but I did adjust the levels to darken the darks and lighten the lights. That got rid of the slight smudging that was there.

NightDragon

Coolio, thanks!

McGibs

Yeah, its pretty awesome D.

But what it REALLY needs is one of those little sound chips. So when you open it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V595oWP5tSE

winter_combat_knight

Me being a dumbass assumed the scales where photo textures!
Holy Moly! Nice work!

Mustang

I would like to think that having Christmasaurus Rex come down your chimney on xmas eve would be considered a bad thing, but I may be alone in that.

DMAC

My mom said he isn't very Christmas-y. He's wearing a Santa hat! His name is Christmasaurus Rex!


Also she felt bad for the gingerbread man.

Mustang

He was asking for it. Muffin man indeed!

L.E.O.

DMAC wrote: »

My mom said he isn't very Christmas-y. He's wearing a Santa hat! His name is Christmasaurus Rex!


Also she felt bad for the gingerbread man.

im sure the gingerbread man had it coming.

rfilyaw

If I recall the gingerbread man story, he was a real jerk. Let me look that up...

Edit: Okay, I guess I remembered that wrong. In every version of the story, he seems to get the short end of the stick.

Edit 2: 'Presently the gingerbread boy said, "Oh dear! I'm quarter gone!" And then, "Oh, I'm half gone!" And soon, "I'm three-quarters gone!" And at last, "I'm all gone!" and never spoke again.'

now I'm sad

L.E.O.

nah, how can a t-rex even capture a ginger bread man?

Mustang

L.E.O. wrote: »

nah, how can a t-rex even capture a ginger bread man?

A T-Rex can't, but a Christmasaurus Rex can. Didn't you watch A Christmas Carol? Remember the Ghost of Christmas Future, Ghost of Christmas Present, Ghost of Christmas Past and the Ghost of Christmas Cretaceous?

The Lovely Bastard

hey dmac

I love you DMAC

DMAC

I know it, baby.

feebsicle

this rocks
it turns back the clock