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Rampaging Dinosaur. RAWR!!!
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Artist // Traditional Art
  • May 28, 1988
  • United States
  • Deviant for 20 years
  • She / Her
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birthdAy '10: decade of deviousness
My Bio
My best art appears to be accidental.

I want to spend my life making things. I want to draw, write, dream, paint, sew and embroider as though these are the only things worth doing. (Unfortunately, I also have to pay off my student loans). I would love to illustrate something and perhaps have it published. Maybe someday.

Favourite Visual Artist
Odilon Redon, Fra Angelico, Geertgen tot Sint Jans, Paul Klee (though I love a bunch of others)
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Pearl and the Beard (and plenty more, but if you want one band, THIS IS IT)
Favourite Writers
Terry Pratchett, Mercedes Lackey, Robin McKinley, Diana Wynne Jones, C.S. Lewis
Favourite Gaming Platform
a table, or possibly my laptop.
Tools of the Trade
mechanical pencils, colored pencils, watercolors, acrylic paint, crayons, felt, thread, ink, pastels.
Other Interests
Light, shape, lines and color. Dreams, imagination, hope. Clouds, mountains, spanish, people.

*sigh* Summer

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So I don't really feel like updating EVERYTHING that has happened since I last updated.  It would be too much. Instead, here's what's happening now: I finished AmeriCorps, Friday was my last day.  Today was my first weekday not going in to the office or out to a work site, so it was kinda weird.  However, I don't have time to mope around because I am moving at the end of July, and I am trying to pack up everything before I go home to visit my parents for a week.  I am heading out on Friday, and it's going to be great! Now, for the random incident that inspired this journal: DA is just plain weird sometimes.  I have been on here for 7 years
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Since I am currently being obnoxious and promoting myself everywhere else on the internet, I thought I might as well do it here too.  I just started listing items for sale on my Etsy shop! It is called PocketTheSaurus, please enjoy the play on words. http://www.etsy.com/shop/pocketthesaurus So far I'm only selling my pocket-sized stuffed dinosaurs on there, but who knows what the future will bring?  Etsy is pretty fantastic, but I'm not letting myself buy anything on it until I've sold enough of my own things to pay for it.  Self-control is hard. Anyway, I am pretty excited because someone already bought one of my items!  It is someone I kn
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Oh look, a journal!  Yeah, yeah, I never update it regularly, blah blah blah.  Let's see what you've missed: I live in Pittsburgh now!  I am serving with AmeriCorps for eleven months, with an organization called Rebuilding Together.  We fix homes for low-income seniors, it is pretty okay.  Unfortunately the most artistic things I get to do for work are designing business cards and newsletters, not terribly inspiring.  I have been drawing a lot more recently though, and I have been doing some crocheting (circle scarves, hooray!) and sewing dinosaurs.  Now of course, none of that is evident on my DA page, but maybe someday it will show up here
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Hey! Would you want to do a trade sometime? I think your dinosaurs are the cutest; painting for dinosaur exchange? (Or money. What do you charge?)
Wow, sure, I'd love to do a trade! I have slacked off in the dinosaur-making department recently (the unfortunate result of having too many art forms that I enjoy and not enough time to do all of them) so it would be fun to make one for you. Painting for dinosaur seems fair to me. (A trade is more fun than money in this instance, but in case you're curious I was charging $10-$15 when I was making a lot of dinosaurs, depending on if I had to ship it somewhere or if it was for a friend. Time-wise I was probably underselling myself, but wanted to strike a balance between how much time it took and how much I thought people would be willing to pay)
Ahh, yay! It'd be a wee painting, though-- probably about 4x6? Is that still fair? Also, what would you like it to be of?
Sounds fair to me...a wee painting for a wee dinosaur. :) As far as painting subject...gee, I don't know. I like things that are whimsical? I like birds and animals and nature-y things. I was going to say 'you can look at my gallery for inspiration' but then I realized I have been pretty terrible at uploading stuff here. (You could look at my Flickr [link] instead if you're so inclined.)
Oh, and also you can pick two colors for a dinosaur (one for the main body and one for the stomach) from these options: [link] and let me know if you want it to have any particular markings...spots, stripes, stars, etc.
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thank you for the fav
Thank you for making that great tutorial! I have only ever made one pattern and it was all by guesswork and trying things until it worked, so your method seems like a much better way to approach it.