Illustration Friday: Bicycle

Posted by Estrella on Apr 28, 2011 in illustration friday | 5 Comments

My submission for Illustration Friday. What do dinosaurs have to do with bicycles? Nothing. I don’t draw nonsensical images often and I want to learn how to draw prehistoric animals…hence the picture you see above. The image above was drawn with an ink brush, and I was looking at some of Bill Watterson’s dinosaurs to get some idea on the inking.

For this picture, I copied other artist’s drawings of t-rexes, and then I later went to the Museum of Natural History to look at and draw the actual skeletons. You can see the “practice sketches” below.

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philip Brownlow
April 28, 2011
lol I like it. Now we know what those short arms were for
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- Estrella
  April 28, 2011
  Thank you. There’s not much of a use for those arms otherwise
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Alicia Stucky
April 28, 2011
It’s impressive how natural you got a T-Rex’s positioning on the bike to look! I love it.
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- Estrella
  April 28, 2011
  I’m surprised by it as well. I found an illustration of a t-rex on google where the t-rex was tilted forward and thought the position may work with a bike.
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