Pod Playground: Surreal Art Contest Entry - Step by step guide and Timelapse video!

My Artwork for Today 🎨

This artwork is specially made for @sethlinson's surreal art contest.

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I always liked imagining swinging in the galaxy.

Title🎨 Pod Playground
Did you know a group of Dolphins is called a pod? Usually, they consist of 12 or more dolphins in one pod. They swarm to places where there's an abundance of food.

I think it's time to draw marine animals for a change.
Last year I drew many wildlife creatures, take Zeus for example:
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Zeus the blind rescued owl
I am a wildlife artist with a cause!
I use my art to speak out for animals who are treated poorly and hunted. Extinct is forever, I hope no other animals become extinct.

This year, I'm doing more of concept/ fantasy and surrealism since I haven't made any realism art this year. It's a good chance to practice another genre.

Dolphins have the IQ of 7.0 and are the smartest water animals.

  • In many instances, Dolphins have saved many surfers from sharks and drowning.
  • They also love to play with humans and can be trained easily to do tricks.
    Dolphins always have a positive and cheerful aura.

HOWEVER

Many Dolphins are killed by eating plastics and affected by pollution.
A bone museum here in my city had collected the bones of a beached dolphin. When they opened its stomach they found many plastics inside. The poor dolphin must have eaten some and gone ill.

I hope people realize the impact they have on poor and defenseless animals.

Let's appreciate marine life and save them

Here's to my first dolphin art ever.

The materials I used for this are:

  • Mechanical pencils
  • Sketchpad paper 12"x18"
  • Black gel pen
  • Black fine tip pen 0.5 and 0.07
  • Colored gel pens:
  • Metallic gel pens: blue, gold and silver
  • Colored pencils
  • White signo pen
  • Broad tip marker
  • Hard eraser

Process 🎥

Heres my timelapse video!

Enjoy the process!

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WIP pictures 🖼️

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✍️ First step sketch

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✍️ Inking - it still looks informal here. Filling color and shades always does the job.

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✍️ Use markers to fill background

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✍️ Color the dolphins gold. To achieve gold effect I used

  • Lime Yellow
  • Yellow green
  • Pink
  • Orange
  • Yellow
  • Red
  • Gold color
  • Sky blue
  • Dark green
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✍️ Then I draw and fill some black Dolphins

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It looks like this now.

  • I also shaded the woman, her hair, dress and the swing with black and grey colored pencils.

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✍️ I draw stars using metallic blue white and gold.
How to create stars:
(1) draw dots of any size all around
(2) to draw stars with rays make a big dot and make it pool then flick your pen upward and you see how youve made a ray.

The final output! 😱

I made this with a total duration of 6 hours. These are three good shots I took, It can't fit in the scanner so I will have to make do with mobile shots for now.
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR STOPPING BY! I HOPE YOU APPRECIATE MY ART AND PERHAPS LEARN A LITTLE SOMETHING 🌸

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