This is a Velociraptor free workplace.

This  little quick piece is just for some office humor, meant to poke fun at some of the other postures you may find around the office.

While playing on line during a afternoon break, I cam across the image below on MthruF.com, It seamed like a great joke and something I would  like to take my own spin at.

(Note: if you are the original creator of the picture above, drop me an email, I'll give you full credit)

 

of course all my paintings start with a extremely rough draft, like the drawing on the right, followed up by a cleaner drawing on the left. now in my defense, I could not  find a Velociraptor picture in any of my kids books to refresh my memory of what the bugger looks like. All I had was some vague images in my head from watching Jurassic Park years ago. Yes I know I could have gone on line, But all I had was dial up and I was feeling lazy about research.

 

A little Frisket and about 2 hours cutting it out with a fresh Exacto blade, I got all the lettering cut out. This would be a little easier in Photoshop or Paint.NET to add the wording, but Airbrushing it is a little more raw, and If you screw up, there is no undo button. the way it should be.

quick shot of sky blue for the sticky note area. I let it dry completely before recovering the spot with the Frisket I had pulled off. The day this was done the Humidity was through the roof, and the temperature was holding in the low 60’s. I had to break out my handy yard sale ”travel” hair drier I bought almost 20 years ago for $1.50.

Black and more black in light layers allowing time to semi dry. I don’t want to water log the paper.

I pull the making off and erase all the excess pencil marks around the lettering, to make it look clean and crisp.

the read circle  or the dino?, It was a toss up. I decided to do the red first as i would spend more time on the dino later.

I think I’ve said this before: red is funny. In the bottle, the color it looks good, even perfect. but when sprayed it looks pink for several layers. I usually end up tenting my red slightly darker then what I expect it to be on paper.

Pull off the mask and inspect my work. so far so good. I’m not going for beautiful just clean.

 

Cut out the dino with some fresh Frisket.

First layer is a yellow base. I normally tend to work with the lighter colors first when working on white paper. and then build up the depth with darker and darker colors.

 

Light green and using some pieces of a cut up cracker box to give me some of curves when painting, you can see once of the pieces at the bottom of the picture (green chunk in the middle).

I introduce some transparent grays. mostly for the talons.

 

Transparent forest green layer.

Transparent black for the shadow details. and some minor paint brush work

Pull the Frisket off to do my final touches with white (Airbrush and 00 paint brush). and a quick clean up of any pencil lines still remaining. Nice and clean right? Yes but too clean for any office experiencing Velociraptor problems.

A little splattered blood/red paint gave it the right look. just dip a heavy paint brush in red and fling until it looks right.