The Flying Trilobite: April 2013

Wednesday 24 April 2013

Trilobite Boy - band poster

More goofing around with the Halftone app. Just need to put a date, time and venue on this one.

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Tuesday 23 April 2013

Stupid Asthma

Asthma Incubus Distressed © Glendon Mellow

Woke up at 4am because it hurts to breathe. Stupid asthma.

A painting I did in ArtRage, run through a filter in the Halftone app.

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Sunday 21 April 2013

Dimetrodon Sphinx, painted on my iPhone

Over the past few years, I've done more versions of this character and image than I can count. It's an exercise in poor background environment planning. These are no different.

My idea for the Dimetrodon Sphinx goes back quite a ways, but at its root has to do with my love for blending mythology and prehistoric creatures, much like the chimaeric flying trilobites. If the Sphinx is an archetype of ancient tricks and wisdom, I thought a predatory dimetrodon is sufficiently old and strange enough to create a half-human with. I have some further ideas for her, and she'll be appearing in the ebook story I've started working on.

So here are a couple of versions of my Dimetrodon Sphinx drawing painted using Sketch Club on my iPhone 4; square ones were put through Instagram afterward.

Pleased with the sky in this one.

Out of the four of them, I like this one best.

See other versions here.

Here's the drawing I started from. Should have taken the time on the iPhone to highlight her lizardy feet and human hands some more.

Saturday 20 April 2013

Oh, that? That's my ego.

Pic of my revamped studio space.

The hovering blob of heavenly light is my ego, caught on film with a Victorian spiritual technique. Most people have guttering candle flames of light; but I'm an artist.

Friday 19 April 2013

Snails of Spring

Calvin has been meeting some of the ants and snails in the neighbourhood.

Edit: Here's a fun tweet I received in response to the post!

@flyingtrilobite Nice! Great pics of interesting Cepaea hortensis invaders from Europe.
— BJLS (@BiolJLinnSoc) April 19, 2013

@flyingtrilobite Looking again, they probably C. nemoralis because of dark lips! Also both 5-banded yellow morph; 2nd has all bands fused.
— BJLS (@BiolJLinnSoc) April 20, 2013