New artwork and Felted sculpts...

I've been crazy busy with more colorful wildlife art. Here is a sample of some new paintings. Again, thank you to all my collectors and people who have purchased my work!

I've also been making some felted horses with bright and colorful wool! These guys are fun to make and really pretty in real life. These guys are available from my Etsy store.

Also, I've been in the middle of making some new dinosaur figures for Shapeways, I've got a female Parasaurolophus on the way. She will match the male perfectly.

I've been messing with some more CGI renders as well. It just takes so much time to do! LOL!

Anyway, thanks again everyone for comments and following along on this blog. I hope to post a little more frequently as I get more art done. Thank you and take care!

Painted figure

Alrighty, got to paint up one of my figures (Brachylophosaurus) that was printed from my CGI model. And here she is:) I was happy with how it turned out and plan on putting her in a diorama. I'm pretty sure she is screaming at a Tyrannosaur...telling him where to stick it :-D

My CGI Dinos turned into figures...

Okay, so I saw this link posted by someone over in the dino figure forum and had to try it. They turn your CG into REAL models!!! OK, as awesome as this sounds, it takes a little getting used to modeling for a real figure. Plus, it isn't that cheap to do. Reasonable, but not cheap.

I tried it with 2 of my dinos. I had to pose them so that they would stand in the real world, make them watertight and hollow to cut down on the cost. It took me awhile.

Then I ordered them up (had to redo the Brachy once as there was a problem with it while printing) and they made it from the Netherlands to my doorstep today:)

They are about 1/75 in size, comparable to the dinotales figures for those of you that collect figures.

They feel a little delicate, but not to much so, just don't drop them! And they are paintable!!!

I'll hopefully get to painting them soon. Anyway, here they are.

If you want to buy one here is my store:

My Shapeway Store!!

They come in large and small and I'll be adding new dinosaurs to my store as I am able. After I make them, I order a small for myself b4 I make them available, so I can make sure they are printed well.

Anyway, tell me what you think!

Later!

Updates

I've been a little absent lately, due to working on a lot of things. My art sales are doing well and for that I am very happy.

I was excited to have my fine art Paleoart picked up by Dan's Dinosaurs so if you would like some paleo wildlife art for your wall...:-)

I've been able to work some on my dinos in the middle of all this other stuff, here is just a simple render of the Brachy. A lot could be better, but for now it is fine. Plus, my computer is going to start hating me more if I ask it to do anymore detail:-)

I'll try and get more posts up here and I still have some work to do for Art Evolved, ahh!

Alright guys, thanks for checking in and all your comments. I really appreciate it all!

Painting the new dinos...

Hi there!

I've been working at some new art and these new CGI dinosaurs that I just started painting. I started with the Brachylophosaurus since I love duckbills:-) I'm happy with how the patterning is coming out.

This is a screen shot of the color pattern I've got going. I need to next work on the bump map and touch up the color as I go.

Here is also a test render of the Parasaurolophus in a forest scene. Not bad, I'm hoping to get some better renders though. Compositing is difficult to get to look right.

Anyway, I've got some sketches going for some new Paleo paintings, I just have to pick what I think will work best and then I'll post them.

OK, take care...

New CGI Dinos

I've been super busy trying to paint new canvases, model new CGI dinos and felt some new sculptures. Thank you to my collectors who have purchased my work! Besides creating art, knowing people enjoy it makes me just as happy:)

Sooo, all these dinosaur models need some touch ups, but they are pretty much there. I made another hadrosaur, Brachylophosaurus, because Hadrosaurs are my favorite group and I already have the basic body plan modeled. The white stripe is an area I am going to try and put a filter of iridescence.

I need some Ceratopsid critters so I started with the Albertoceratops, I'll make a Pentaceratops as well since I now have the basic body and can just change the Albertoceratops to model other species.

I needed something small to pose in my forest scenes so I tried a Leptoceratops. I need to touch this one up some, but so far here he is. I put the quills on him as it looks cool, but I don't know how well they will render so who knows if I'll keep them.

I took some nice photos of the Redwoods here and I'll get some more photos of the marshes down by the bay and some other habitats. I am trying to make kind of a photo safari of dinosaurs. So I'll have a lot of pictures of a forest with its creatures, and move onto the marsh with its inhabitants and the valleys, etc.

Its a huge project, but I think it will be worth it. I'm building the models in batches and then I will rig and paint them all at once.

OK, I will post more when I get further along....

More minis, a new website and Ebay store...

Lots in the works!

I've started a webpage, I am still working on it, but at least it is up.

http://www.fineartstudioonline.com/AngieRodrigues

Here is my new Ebay site that will have a lot of my paintings up for sale if you are interested:

http://myworld.ebay.com/wild*at*art

My Etsy store will also have paintings up.

http://www.craftycreatures.etsy.com/

So, more minis and small paintings, more paleoart on the way (including some minis!)

Take care!