Useless Degree

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Dinos Worlds Squiggles Other Stuff 🦖❤️🖤 Watercolor, gouache, & ink mostly Cat Guardian (Always made by a human, never ever AI)

Gonna work on another little piece tonight. This dino's name "This Guy." He likes being tall. He also likes wearing a jack-o-lantern and hanging out with ghosts on a lovely Prussian blue background. This one is 4" x 6"

WIP Painting by Useless Degree/ heb26

A Prussian blue matte opaque background. In the foreground, in very light pencil is a dino type creature. He's wearing a jack-o-lantern and his legs and tail are sticking out the bottom. Two ghosts float in the top left.

I'm gonna work on a new small piece tonight and thought I'd share the process in this thread. It features our friend the Zhuchengtyrranus and a cat guy who has appeared in previous work, though I think this is his first Bluesky appearance.

 Drawing in notebook by useless degree/heb26. Pen drawing of a Zhuchengtyrranus and a cat type guy looking at each other.

Does anyone have suggestions for what care instructions I should include when someone buys one of my watercolors? The pens used are Micron. I also avoid highly fugitive colors. So far I have: - keep out of direct sunlight - do not get it wet/damp (I put UV Archival matte spray coating on them)

Here's some process images for my last painting "Always Together." I created five transfers before I was happy with a composition. This was also my first Pachycephalosaurus so I had to figure out how to draw him. Sketches, color tests, and planet studies....

I have a tremor in my hands that I've had for about 20 years. I grip my pens really hard. Putting a makeup sponge on them helps a bit, but I try to set a timer to take breaks when I'm going to be drawing for a long time.

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