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1. Crystal Cave


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2. sketches

these are asome sketches i found in some old sketchbooks i was looking at yesterday. they are about 25 books but i woould need weeks to scan and upload and it's not worth.

sketches by dibujandoarte
sketches, a photo by dibujandoarte on Flickr.



sketches by dibujandoarte
sketches, a photo by dibujandoarte on Flickr.
sketches by dibujandoarte
sketches, a photo by dibujandoarte on Flickr.
sketches by dibujandoarte
sketches, a photo by dibujandoarte on Flickr.
sketches by dibujandoarte
sketches, a photo by dibujandoarte on Flickr.
sketches by dibujandoarte
sketches, a photo by dibujandoarte on Flickr.


sketches by dibujandoarte


these which follow are all life drawing, at a public place and the rest at the studio
sketches by dibujandoarte
sketches, a photo by dibujandoarte on Flickr.


sketches by dibujandoarte
sketches, a photo by dibujandoarte on Flickr.

sketches by dibujandoarte
sketches, a photo by dibujandoarte on Flickr.



sketches by dibujandoarte
sketches, a photo by dibujandoarte on Flickr.


this one was a work i was asked for some glasses make, though i don't know if they've ever used it.

sketches by dibujandoarte
sketches, a photo by dibujandoarte on Flickr.

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3. dibujandoarte - some drawings in diff techniques

the fact that since flickr isn't posting the images directly as it used to up to a few months ago, make complicated being uploading, here, there, to facebook, and whatever... i'm seriously thinking about stop uploading my stuff. the truth is that in flickr for instance, people usually watches my images about a hundred times on the first couple of days, but only a few favs and almost noone coments. and here in blogger there seems to be more traffic but noone leaves any coments, so I guess i'm just posting for some russian/american bots which visit the site and sometimes leave some spam message i obviously don't publish. here's a screen capture, it's making me think if taking this long to post is really worth...



anyway, hope you enjoy these small drawings, some are from last night, a couple from a few days ago and the pencil one is from last year i think. 









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4. imaginary landscape

imaginary australian landscape painting

A while back I had the idea to do a series of these imaginary landscapes. I hope I can find the time to do more of these soon. I can't decide which I like doing more, characters or environments.

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5. old drawings

these are from 2002-2005, imaginary and life sessions. the other one is a homage to Dore Hoyer

homage to Dore Hoyer 

 life drawing

 life drawing

imaginary 


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6. Crustacean sub

Crustacean submarine concept art illustration
Day 26
Topic - Crustacean sub

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7. Unidentified Floating Crustaceans

'Grow'vember day 25
Topic - 'Unidentified Floating Crustaceans'

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8. 'Grow'vember day 24 - sauropods

black & white illustration of sauropod dinosaurs
Day 24
Topic - sauropods

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9. 'Grow'vember day 17 - Man-eating plants

Concept art drawing of carnivorous man-eating plants
Day 17
Topic - man-eating plants

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10. Brisbane on stilts


Inspired by the city I live in, Brisbane. Colonies of flying foxes at dusk, and seemingly rickety Queenslanders on stilts. Growing up here these were pretty typical sights, though don't try and find where this is. This one's made up. More process pictures can be viewed on my Facebook page.

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11. A wombat riding a bicycle


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12. 'Whisper'

 
“If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you.” ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

 
Well it's been a while, but here's my entry for this week's Illustration Friday. The week's word is 'Whisper'. Hope you like it!

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13. the alchemist

this is another imaginary work i did last year and just found it in the computer and think I never posted it.

The Alchemist by dibujandoarte

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14. another imaginary sketxh

another imaginary sketxh by dibujandoartei'll only post two of all the imaginay sketches i did yesterday on a new blank book i started, just to spend some quiet evening on silence, painting without caring about any particular model, shapes or perpectives

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15. fooling around with ink 1

fooling around with ink 1 by dibujandoartean imaginary figure in which i don't care about any real shape or size. it's strange, while i was doing it and afterwards too, i see it and feel an urge to go on with the inner part of the figure in pencil lines.
as it is, in a way it's inviting, to be completed mentally in different ways all the time. i'll leave it just like it is, asking me to complete it each time i see it. :P

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16. Frog Orchestra



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17. Swarm

This was meant to be my Illustration Friday entry but it's about two weeks late. The theme was 'swarm', though I think this would probably go better with the word 'spore' since the children kind of look more like floating spores. The bottom image was a value study. The final watercolour has had quite a lot of colour correction as the finished piece turned out very insipid.

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18. Illustration Friday entry - preview

Only one day to go, here's a preview of my Illustration Friday entry for this week.

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19. Picture book project - concept

Still working out colours and technique, so here's another simple composition. The colours are probably getting close to what I want, but the technique I'm not so sure yet. I don't want it overly fussy looking, but am definitely still struggling to control the medium. More to follow.

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20. Picture book project


 

Some good news to report, I have teamed up with published (and award winning) author Jennifer Poulter who has taken my initial concept art and done a truly brilliant job of working them into a story for picture book form. Above you can see some new concept art created since receiving the finished first draft of the manuscript. At this stage I'm still trying to establish the look, so nothing here is final. If you missed the earlier concept art I posted here/here & here, it was all digitally painted. I'd like to reinterpret the world created thus far in watercolour if I can manage to get to grips with this medium. I still have a ways to go on this front.

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21. "Day Trip"

Number 3 in the series.

I'm thinking that as I explore this character's world a loose narrative will unfold. Eventually, I envisage possibly collating the series into a picture book without words - a purely visual story. One example of this picture only format is Gon, the Japanese manga about a dinosaur.

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22. another old (imaginary) sketch

this sketch is newer than the other ones i posted yesterday, though it's from 2003. :S

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23. The Role of Play in Human Development

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Anthony D. Pellegrini is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota.  His book, The Role of Play in Human Development, examines the role of different forms of human play in terms of its phylogenetic history, its ontogenetic development, and possible functions, suggesting that human play represents one way in which experience shapes development.  In the excerpt below we learn about the importance of imaginary play.

The transition from solitary to social pretend play is a hallmark of the preschool period, reflecting children’s relatively sophisticated social cognitive and linguistic development… because social pretend play involves, by definition, the communication and coordination of abstract meaning between people, the possibility for ambiguity and the subsequent breakdown of social interaction around a pretend theme is relatively high.  This state of affairs is why social pretend play has been afforded such an important role in the ontogeny of children’s theory of the mind (e.g., Leslie, 1987).  With both social pretend play and theory of mind, children are concerned with others’ intents and beliefs.  Also in both theory of mind and social pretend play research, the role of the close adult-child relationship, such as the mother-child relationship, is central to children’s developing ability to understanding others’ intentions…

There is also a very good biological reason for mothers to spend time in joint interaction with their infants and children.  Mothers are “motivated” to spend time and energy on their offspring because they represent a major genetic investment.  Her offspring contain 50% of her genes, and the mother wants to maximize the survival and reproduction of her offspring, and her genes… Therefore, mothers not only invest in protecting and provisioning their offspring, but also in tutoring them in the skills necessary to maximize the offspring’s survival and reproduction.  Mother-child playful interactions are part of this process…

The offspring, too, have an interest in maintaining a close relationship with their mothers, providing their mothers are responsive to their needs.  That is, offspring depend on mothers for protection and provisioning, and they try to maximize the resources they extract from their mothers… This dynamic relationship of interdependence is enacted in the mother-child attachment relationship.  This relationship is developed in social pretend play and forms an important base of children’s representations of other social relationships.  This developmental progression has been documented in a series of studies by Carolee Howes (1992) and her students.  According to Howes, children’s social pretend with mothers begins at around 12 to 15 months of age when children take pretend play actions outside their functional context (i.e., decontextualization), such as pretending to drink from an empty cup.  In a mother-child interaction context, mothers will structure pretend scenarios to maximize children’s participation…, because the child is now capable of responding to its mother’s pretend initiations, often by watching, complying with, and imitating those acts.  To maximize children’s participation, mothers monitor their children’s behavior closely, being particularly vigilant around pretend behavior; they look at children closely and smile after children’s pretend play acts…  In this way children learn to recognize preten

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24. Finding my new friends...

Whether I am working with animals or with people I like to get to know them, personally. That includes imaginary characters as well as those in real life.

However, with the imaginary ones it is hard to 'see' them unless I create lots of preliminary sketches on paper and in the computer. And here I can see the subtle differences that must not occur in the final sketches or paintings. Consistency is the keyword.


Once I have a good idea of who is who, I will print out a collection like this one and go back to the drawing board with pencil or pen and continue the process until I really know who these people are. They will become my friends, and I often find that they are in part based on people I have known. In this case I was well acquainted with all three of the real people that eventually made their way into this imaginary world.

I am sure that often happens to other illustrators. Does it happen to you? How do you arrive at the final destination for your characters? If you have time, post your thoughts here *:)

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25. Jesus Storybook Bible on CBS!



The author of the bible I illustrated, Sally Lloyd -Jones has just e-mailed to let me know that the book was spotted on CBS News: Sunday Morning, in a segment on the history of Bible publishing, highlighting how many different types of bible are available today. Ours was used to illustrate a "bible for kids", pretty impressive considering how many children's bibles there must be to choose from.

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