Dindostars Illustration

Dindostars Illustration: An Art Blog

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POISSON D’AVRIL

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APRIL FISH

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I have had super art block and no time to actually try to break it, but now I am making a felt board for my toddler! He loves it.

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A preview of a project I’ve had in the works for a while now. FINALLY NEARLY FINISHED.

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I did what I threatened to do!

I made RedBubble greeting cards out of my dinosaur Christmas/Solstice cards.

Enjoy!

Christmas Dinosaur T-Rex

Christmas Dinosaur Brontosaurus

Christmas Dinosaur Stegosaurus

Christmas Dinosaur Triceratops

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Fancy pants! Ever wanted to say Merry Christmas and Solstice with a dinosaur, but couldn't find the way to say it?

Look no further!

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An oldie, but a goodie!

Happy Batman Day!

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Old art! Fun, but in need of updating.

PROJECTS.

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I had a baby in January!

He has great hopes for our future.

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I did what I threatened to do!

I made RedBubble greeting cards out of my dinosaur Christmas/Solstice cards.

Enjoy!

Christmas Dinosaur T-Rex

Christmas Dinosaur Brontosaurus

Christmas Dinosaur Stegosaurus

Christmas Dinosaur Triceratops

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I designed some dinosaur Christmas/Solstice cards for nursery. I'm pretty proud of them, and am now considering putting them in my Redbubble store. Pretty sure my parents would buy them if no one else lol.

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Sailor Batgirls!

Because Batgirls are awesome, and Sailor Moon is awesome. Ergo...

(Based directly on this drawing I did several years ago.)

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I bet everyone thought I forgot about this. I DIDN’T. I was just struggling with how to do it. I’m not very practiced at limited palettes.

Anyway.

I went with the theory that Sailor Ceres is the leader of Chibi-Moon’s Sailor Quartet, and so she inherits the badass Silver Crystal sword. WHOO.

I also decided that I was going to draw this as SAILOR MOON-Y AS POSSIBLE. Because hey, Sailor Moon is what got me serious about drawing in the first place.

@decoplusboco I hope you like it! :D

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Art blog reblog! Sailor Moon is my jam.

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Welp, making one of those color pallet challenge images wasn’t enough for me, so I decided to make three more. If you want to send me a suggestion for one of these, go ahead!

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I’ll bite.

I need to draw something, but I’m feeling too burned out to be creative lately.

Fandoms I’ll go for:

Sailor Moon Cardcaptor Sakura Posterchildren Avatar (the Last Airbender or Korra) Percy Jackson Greek Mythology DC/Marvel Tortall (for a terrifying challenge in costuming)

Not as fandom-y books: His Dark Materials Septimus Heap The Old Kingdom (another terrifying challenge in costuming) Modern Tales of Faerie The Night Circus The Secret Garden A Little Princess

Just as a starting point. If you’re desperate to see my take on another character from another fandom, just dump it in my ask!

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Bwoop! Art blog reblog.

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I'm finally reading my book She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth and so I am once again hopelessly in love with Eleanor of Aquitaine (because she's a badass), and so I decided to doodle my two favorite queens!

My other favorite queen is Marie Antoinette, for reasons I can't quite figure out.

(Red for Eleanor because the English coat of arms at the time was three gold lions on a red field. Blue for Marie Antoinette because the coat of arms of France was three fleur-de-lis on a blue field.)

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What started as a grumpy Mal going for a slumpy walk quickly evolved into Zip being Zip.

Clearly she had something important to tell him before she knocked him off balance.

Yay rudimentary animation! (It's not great, I know, but it was fun!)

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I'm working on a comic about Persephone and Hades, and I finished the first page.

Drawing the Underworld throne room is a pain because I decided years ago that everything is black and decorated in gems. (Whose fault is that? Mine.)

Also, Cerberus is having some downtime in the throne room. He is the best dog and his heads are homages to three dog I knew: a fawn English mastiff named Abby, an apricot brindle English mastiff named Pharroah, and a black/brindle Neopolitan mastiff/pitbull mix named Shamira.

I loved those dogs lots, and pretty much every time I draw dogs in Greek myth comics, they are some version of those three dogs. (It helps that mastiffs are massive hunting dogs, but I'd do it even if they were corgis.)

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Oh, and Welcome New Followers!

Thanks for the follows, guys! I know exactly where most of you came from (Percy Jackson fandom), and I am perfectly flattered that you decided to stick around!

Enjoy your stay :D

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Like anybody listens to you, Zeus.

I made this to show off the fancy Greek border design font I made.

Pretty fancy, enh? Enh?? 8D

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I've been working on this font for a few days! It's been a lot of fun, and I'm really happy with how it's turned out. (Here is my fonts tag from my main blog to see a handful of WIPs.)

There had been an ancient Greek style font that I was using in the past (as seen in this post from several years ago), but a) it wasn't on this computer and b) I spur of the moment decided I wanted to try my hand at my own ancient Greek style font.

In studying some of the alphabets that I found, I noticed that Greek is actually a lot rounder than pop culture would lead us to believe! And I decided I wanted to emulate that. I borrowed very heavily from ancient Greek where possible (...even if the sound the Greek represents is not the sound the modern alphabet makes), and edited my way around to get what I wanted.

I really liked the aesthetic of the smaller, underlined vowels from the original font I had, and so I kept that aspect, but creating separate lowercase letters (borrowing from modern Greek for a, e, and u). I also decided early on that I wanted this font to be very blocky -- to that end, all of the letters are created in the same size square, with capitals underlined.

(The capitals being underlined was actually just how all the letters looked before I changed my mind and removed it for the lowercase.)

The numbers don't follow quite the same width, though they are the same height as the lowercase vowels, and are all the same width as a set.

I am also excessively pleased with myself for making an @ and a ©.