Richard Moore
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Beauties & Beasts Sketch
🕑 Added 2021-06-01 15:00:09 +0000 UTCI am going to murder my scanner. Believe it or not, there are clouds in the background of this sketch. The silhouette of the spires showed up, but...ah, screw it.
I love this kind of piece, with all the different patterns and textures. It's also fun implying fictional exotic cultures with those kinds of details. The creature itself is a variation on a theme that you'll be seeing more than once in my Beauties & Beasts series: shaggy, but with bony plates that seem ornamental and almost designed. It's something I did in a sketchbook once and the idea just fascinated me. But my favorite part of this guy--and this might seem weird--is his cute round, blunt tongue. Look how cute that is! It's actually designed after a cockatoo's tongue. But I don't think this guy eats crackers.
