Sea Monsters and Space Pups

Added two more sea monsters from the cretaceous: Elasmosaurus and Ichthyosaurs. Elasmosaurs look lots like the classic Loch Ness Monster, while Ichthyosaurs look alot like dolphins. I also gen'd up a battle scene between the Liopleurodon (Jurassic Period), Elasmosaurus (Cretaceous Period), Mosasaur (Cretaceous Period), and Xiphactinus (Cretaceous Period).  Needless to say, coloration is my best guess, using fossils to get the shape.

On a much more light-hearted tone, I also draw up a space puppy cartoon with a rat terrier in a space suit (with cool boots too).


Remember, my Master Catalog has all the art I have generated over the years, in  a mobile friendly format.

Later and happy shopping!
Bryce

Fishes, Space, and Apollo art into Fall

Hello all my art fans!
Finished up kids books last springs (Madison's African Rivers and Charlotte's Arctic Ocean) then got pulled into all my space farm papers and presentations.  However, did take time to draw more fish, and some abstract designs, and flesh out a Design By Humans site on top of adding to my Cafepress sites and Spoonflower/Sprout/Roostery patterns.   The spoonflower patterns (especially the ones with sharks) are very popular, and cafe press is popular too, but for a wide swath of species. I added a much better run at the peacock bass cichlids of South America, in DBH and Cafe Press (four species to be exact, including Spotted, Royal, Butterfly, and Tucunare)  and plan over time to upgrade various species, and added more African and Asian species.
I also added a few spacey designs, like this one in spoonflower and this one in Design by Humans, and another science space drawing to show the route of Apollo 11 in commemoration of the 49th and upcoming 50th Apollo mission anniversaries.
Later, Tight Lines, and Explore!
Bryce

Finished up Charlotte's Arctic Ocean, including a swath of Arctic animals including polar bears (in many poses, including babies), arctic fox, walrus, narwhals,beluga whales, ribbon seals, hooded seals, harp seals (and yes, baby harp seals), halibut, Greenland sharks, arctic char, puffins,little auks, and others. Also draw the same designs into Spoonflower and Cafepress patterns.  Switching over to finish Madison's African Rivers, and mostly wrapped up the fish (on Cafepress too) and now doing the mammals and reptiles in prep for assembly. Like the Amazon, the Congo and Nile have lots of Cichlids and Caracins, but Africa also has elephant fish, in a variety of odd shapes. Unlike fish, mammals and reptiles require many poses to be believable.

More later,
Bryce

Space Art and Fish Art

Fishes:
Still drawing African fishes, almost done enough for my next book (Madison's African Rivers).  Drew up the classic elephant snouts (Morymid family), a Kafue pike, an Aba fish (an electric knifefish), Bichir, and many (many) more cichlids, puffers,  and characins. I have to say Africa has some of the most interesting freshwater fishes in the world to be sure! Amaizing how many tropical rivers freshwater pufferfish (as the Amazon, Nile, and Congo do).

Space:
Since I am on the planning committee for the International Space Development Conference (ISDC) in St. Louis MO this summer, have gotten to see a good sampling of space art, and added a few snippets of my own here and there. Did up a new kid's space book (You Will Farm in Space) which gave me the chance to be both engineer and artist to make all the diagrams and concepts.  Many space farm concepts of mine will have Earth applications too.


Other:
Take a peek at my patterns on clothing at sprout.com

Later,
Bryce

African Fish of late...

Been drawing up a storm on African freshwater fishes lately. An interesting family of those fish is the Elephantfish family, which includes the comic looking Campylomormyrus Elephantfish, but also a variety of other interesting fish, many of which are (harmlessly) electric.  They likely use electricity to find dinner and to locate other members of their species in the dark and muddy waters of the Congo and other African rivers. A large member of this family is the Cornish Jack Fish, with a small flat mouth, and teeny tail, though I took the liberty of picking a color scheme from the Rift Valley lakes. I also did up the Baby Whale Fish (a marketing trick of the tropical fish industry, just like those 'Asian shark' catfish), which is an elephant fish with no trunk. I began picking on the African cichlids, most of which are very pretty, like the Banded Jewel Cichlid, especially the small species, Ornate ctenopoma fish, etc. Not to be missed, I also drew the Giant Tigerfish, (Goliath tigerfish is a synonym) a species featured in many 'monster' fish TV shows. The Giant tiger is less colorful and has a deeper body than the typical African Tigerfish.  Both species are Characins, like the Piranha, though are closer to the Tetras (like the little Neon Tetra aquarium fish I grew up with). Look for all the new African fish as I draw them on the Old World Fishes page.

Enjoy,
B

If you hit my spoonflower site or Image Catalog (or Pattern catalog, now all mobile-friendly), you will notice lots of dizzying fish and dolphin patterns emerging...why may you ask? Because I did those two adult coloring books (now on Amazon, bn, etc.) :

Of Oceans and Rivers, Fishes and Whales: A Coloring Book of Marine Life for Grown-ups and other Children (available on Amazon here)

Of Oceans and Rivers, Fishes and Whales II: A Coloring Book of Marine Life Patterns for Grown-ups and Others (available on Amazon here)

In doing those two books, especially the second one (which is all patterns, black and white of course so you can add your own imaginative colors), I got inspired to make the natural full color patterns for stuff and fabrics/wrap/wallpaper too. 

What emerged are flowers, stars, swirls, wheels, and the like...which I hope you will like.

I might make a few into cool Hawaiian shirts for myself :0)

Calm Seas, Sunny Shores, and Tight lines,

Bryce

Adult Coloring Book project

Got a wild hare (or hair? as my Pop would say) and as suggested by my sister, created an 'Adult' Coloring Book ('adult'= requires the dexterity of an older kid or adult, the only thing naked in it are fish, whales, dolphins, seals, reptiles, etc.). Anyhow, took quite a bit of work to take various marine life scenes from my kids books, and turn them into black and white color-able images. 104 images later (and many false starts) lead to a 220 page book, 8.5" x 11" with a scene index. Why 220 pages?  because the coloring pages are really single sided, the back page blank except for a header about being blank on purpose, and a footer page number, plus pages of index, plus author notes, and a how-to note. Title data for said book:
Of Oceans and Rivers, Fishes and Whales
A Coloring Book of Marine Life for Grown-ups and other Children
ISBN-13: 978-1523855735
ISBN-10: 1523855738
target price is far less then similar offerings,
should be up for sale sometime before 12 Feb 2016.

Each image (scene) can be colored in using pencils, cut out, and framed if that is what you want.  You could also cut out the page, use markers or paints (ala paint by numbers, minus numbers) then frame or do whatever.

At a min, as you color in the images, you will definitely take a mental vacation while learning about nature.

Still working the myriad of other projects also...
calm waters and tight lines,
Bryce