Nautilus Tattoo - hardcore ink

After posting Thomas Trae's Flying Trilobite tattoo here on the blog recently, I ended up in conversation on Twitter with Alchemystress of Tales of a Mad Scientist on the LabSpaces network.

Alchemystress was unfamiliar with my work to date, and after some enthusiastic emails, decided to get a tattoo based on this image, from one of my university studio projects!

Her tattoo artist did an incredible job of mimicking the pencil and giving it an old-drawing feel, as well as deftly expanding on the flowers I had included.

Check out the amazing ink below, after the jump:

Testing out the Sketchclub app

I first read about the Sketchclub app on the excellent blog fingerpainted.it. 

Like Brushes and Sketchbook Pro Mobile, it's a powerful little app, great for sketching on the go. Immediately though, I have to say I love the interface.  Selecting brushes and colours just zips along, and some of the brushes are really fun. You only get 2 layers, but you can use tools like Multiply or Overlay. 

My first sketch was of a trilobite and a face. 

©  Glendon Mellow 2011

Is the face me?  Not my nose, but my eyebrows and tired new-dad eyes. I like the little shaded blade. Surprisingly though, I don't think there's a tortillon or smudger for the pencil tool.  But it does simulate it by tracking turns and where you would smudge it with your hand.  Sorta. 

Here's a couple more of my first explorations of this nifty new app which I posted directly to Facebook - another neat feature. Can't wait for Twitter to be added.

eye sketch - Sketchclub - © Glendon Mellow 2011

Ammonite sketch - Sketchclub - © Glendon Mellow 2011

If I have a complaint, it's that there's no button I can find for starting a new sketch. If I pick an empty slot from the file page, it loads with my last worked-on drawing, which I then need to clear.  According to the review though, the developer has a background in the gaming industry, and is actively and constantly improving the app, so I expect good things. 

You can click on the iPod Touch label for more of my iPod sketches. 

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New painting: Tylosaurus Reef

Tylosaurus Reef  - ©  Glendon Mellow 2011. Oil on canvas. 

Commissioned by R.V. for Craig Dylke of Art Evolved, Weapon of Mass Imagination and the force behind Traumador the Tyrannosaur.

Flying Trilobites invade Loving Chasmosaurs

That blog title sounds wrong. 

Today David Orr of Love in the Time of the Chasmosaurs has an interview with me on his blog.  Check it out!  David's interviewing style is multi-layered.  We discussed ScienceOnline11, the future of the internet (!) and where I stand on scientific illustration.

David has a whole series of these interviews I'm proud to be a part of, including with Brian Switek, Nobu Tamura, Mark Witton and more. You can find them all at the interview label. 

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Highest form of flattery

One of The Flying Trilobite fans on Facebook recently purchased some stickers from my print shop and let me know he had placed them on his bumper. 

photo © Thomas Trae 2011

I asked Thomas Trae if he could put the picture up and he did. 

Then he showed me the highest form of flattery toward my art:

photo and arm © Thomas Trae 2011 and forever. 

He got inked!

"Did I forget to mention the Flying Trilobite is hovering over the Megasquid?" said Thomas.  Our ensuing conversation:

• Flying Trilobite Is that painted?

  Thursday at 15:05 · 
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  Thomas Trae ‎'Tis inked, good sir.

  Thursday at 16:16 · 
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  Thomas Trae And boy did that area hurt. Not so much the trilo, but the green. Aaaaand he had to re-do it several times on different occasions.

  Thursday at 16:20 · 
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  Flying Trilobite Holy monkey - permanent? A tattoo? People will know you and I belong to some sort of ancient arthropod-worshipping cult --- er!! I mean people will *think* you and belong to some sort of cult. But that's just silly, heh heh....

  Yesterday at 03:55 ·  ·  1 person
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  Thomas Trae The trilobite just seemed to compliment the Forest Cthulhu. Yeah, we share 'the Mark' now. One day, when the stars are aligned, the Great Winged Trilo will rise from the depths of an alternate history...

  20 hours ago ·  ·  1 person

My Brother!

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Sock Puppet Hydra!!!!!11!!

Oh the stench!  The Sock Puppet Hydra is not helping.

Click to enlarge - but IT MIGHT GROW MORE SOCKS!! OMG!!

But that's okay: today the socks finally had a long-overdue bath. 

Please feel free to use and share this image that I made in a brief fit of pettiness. (Different Creative Commons Licence than my art usually has.  It's a special occasion.  Licence here.)

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