Reptile Morph Art Series

[cmills]

@caryl

That’s a rough injury to work through. I’ll be saying prayers for you!

@caron

And I too am so sorry that you hurt yourself! You’re way too young to be maiming yourself like that dear girl! . I hope you heal quickly and properly!

Thank you guys! I like to joke that I put 110% effort into everything I do, and unfortunately that also includes injuries, ha! I can never seem to get hurt in a casual, ‘better in a few days’ sort of way

@caryl

How long did it take, if you don’t mind my asking?

Each stamp was hand carved and took around an hour each, so the designs themselves would be around 8 hours total. Then each stamp was applied to the shirt individually which took another 1. hours or so - so the shirt is about 10 hours total!

But now I can use those same stamps in any design I want, so this process is very front-heavy like that

[baby_yoda]

Here are a couple pieces of art i’ve made for artfight this month! It’s my first year doing it and i’m having a blast. also side note: this new image uploading system is awesome!

[cmills]

Love these! I’ve always wanted to join AF, I just never have the energy, glad to see you getting into it!

[armiyana]

The first one makes me think of Neopets for some reason… I like the OC night fury tho.

I … Should artfight. TELL ME YOUR USERNAME

@cmills if anything just sign up and spectate. I was gonna spectate this year but I will probably try to muster energy at least to attack baby_yoda. Hahah

[emfraise]

In line with reptile morph art, I once toyed with horses having snake color/species patterns - this one was based on a Pueblan milk snake, iirc!

Back in my MS Paint Deviantart HARPG days… Cringe but fond memories!

[cmills]

Listen as someone who also drew horses with reptile patterns (they are in this thread somewhere), I GET IT

[baby_yoda]

@armiyana

I … Should artfight. TELL ME YOUR USERNAME

My username is OhFizzlestix! I only have two characters up right now but i would love an attack! And i can revenge you too

[caron]

. Sometimes I sure wish I knew what you young folk are talking about But don’t even try to explain because I’m too old to understand things such as this! I’m from the olden days when I did my best art/drawings and an ETCH A SKETCH !!!

I bet @caryl remembers this toy as well…..

[cmills]

@caron

Sometimes I sure wish I knew what you young folk are talking about

ArtFight is an online community and ‘game’ of sorts where artists choose a team to join, and earn points for drawing other peoples’ characters - the more you draw, the more points you and your team gets! Its a fun way to build community and encourage people to draw a lot during July

The online art community has lots of fun activities like this that people can get involved with: MerMay (prompts for a mermaid a day in May), Jurassic June (follow prompts to draw one dinosaur per day in June), Inktober (following prompts to draw spooky things using only ink during October) - and many more!

[caron]

Ah thank you so much for clarifying this! I’m all for community/camaraderie!

As well as creativity!

[cmills]

It really is nice to get to see art bring people together!

[caryl]

Agreed!

And yes, @caron, I remember Etch a Sketch very well! Lite Brite and Spirograph, too!

[caron]

I used to love Spirograph! I never had Lite Brite

[armiyana]

Was going through some old art trying to find some neat stuff for printing.
Had a good laugh when I found this one.

Little doodle of a Jurassic Park style Rex with lips. This was a while back from when the lip discovery had been made through some new fossil findings. Hahah

[cmills]

Cursed with rex arms, she’s gonna need help to apply lipstick to those smackers