Oaxacan Barn Owl Dragon, Part 4!

Friday, September 2nd: time to begin texturing with my stylus!

With the wings fully textured, I can begin priming!

Feathers fully primed; painting begun!

Today's music:

Gary Numan, Berserker

Talking Heads, 77

Seal [1991]

Seal [1994]

Fatboy Slim, You've Come a Long Way, Baby

Oaxacan Barn Owl Dragon, Part 3!

Thursday, September 1st: time to outline!

Wings fully outlined!

Today's music:

Frou Frou, Details

TV on the Radio, Young Liars

Sneaker Pimps, Splinter

IAMX, Metanoia

Fever Ray (eponymous)

Martin Gore, Counterfeit

Oaxacan Barn Owl Dragon, Part 2!

Wednesday, August 31st: got my headphones, got my iPod, and that's all I need. :D Let's get to work!

The 'lambertjillian' tag is something I made specifically for my Instagram posts. Double watermarks don't hurt.

My thumb stays indented for a while thanks to the
pressure required for vibrant Verithin lines.

Hand exercise balls are a MUST HAVE for colored pencil work!

Stopping point for the 31st: body fully outlined!

Today's music:

Emiliana Torrini, Love in the Time of Science

James Newton Howard, Treasure Planet OST

Loreena McKennit, The Mask & The Mirror

Collective Soul, Dosage

Combichrist, The Joy of Gunz

I'm the only weirdo I know of who would listen to Combichrist directly after Collective Soul...

Oaxacan Barn Owl Dragon, Part 1!

Oaxacan Barn Owl Dragon
11x14 colored pencil on vellum bristol

I scanned the lineart by itself for posterity!

WHEW. I did it. I busted this happy gal out over the course of 8 days: August 29th through September 5th. In terms of the span of days, she's the fastest Oaxacan Animal I've completed to date. But the sheer time I devoted to her outranks that of any Oaxacan Animal prior: 32 hours!

As with any Oaxacan Animal, the Barn Owl Dragon began as a series of rough sketches and concepts. I'm terribly fond of taking gratuitous desk shots nowadays, so:

Stopping point for the 30th: face and horns outlined!

Tuesday, August 30th was a short work day; my aunt dropped by to bring me a piece of furniture for my bearded dragon's terrarium!