Reptiles is Here! 

A Brand New Digital Download Coloring Book

by Tim Jeffs

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My latest Digital Coloring Book is available

 

It's a Special Edition Coloring Book which includes 15 detailed Reptile drawings coloring pages, including 5 Dinosaurs and a coloring lesson. You'll find unique illustrations of the following Reptiles: • Armadillo girdled lizard • Attenborough’s fan-throated lizard • Bush Viper • Green Sea Turtle • Iguana • Komodo Dragon • Lesser Chameleon • Mosasaurus (Dinosaur!) • Mountain Horned Dragon • Parasaurolophus (Dinosaur!) • Pinocchio Lizard • Stegosaurus (Dinosaur!) • Thorny Devil • Triceratops (Dinosaur!) • Tyrannosaurus Rex (Dinosaur!) • 

 

Bonus! Tyrannosaurus Rex Coloring Lesson. Colorist Jo warren and I show you, step-by-step, how to color the King of the Lizards! • 

 

Happy Coloring Everyone! 

 

And a Special Thank you to Jo Warren for her amazing T-Rex how too coloring and Tim O’Brien for all his Marketing expertise!

Karma Chameleon

Drawing a Chameleon...Again

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Chameleon. 11x17" Ballpoint Pen and Ink wash

Well, if you don't feel completely satisfied, try again…right? I did a drawing of a Chameleon last year, and I just wasn't satisfied with the detail and composition of it. I wanted to express my fascination for these incredible little creatures with a more up-close and personal look at the amazing detail a Chameleon possesses. And this drawing ended up becoming the most time intensive drawing I have done so far. I probably put over 30 hours of time completing this work. But as most of you that follow me know, time is not an issue when doing a drawing. I don't rush a drawing and enjoy a long and time-consuming creative process. And this piece demanded a level of patience that I throughly enjoyed experiencing. I approach a drawing like this one scale at a time, trying never to rush it. To some people this would be torture, but to me it is relaxing, enjoyable, meditative, and peaceful.

Where to start about Chameleons. The facts about these reptiles are mesmerizing! There are 160 different species of Chameleons, which half of them live on the island of Madagascar. Their eyes can rotate and swivel independently to let them see a complete 360-degrees. Their tongues can be as long as their bodies and move at ballistic speeds. They can change color, which serves as a form of communication. CRAZY! and if that wasn't enough:

• Chameleons have ultraviolet vision

• Chameleons vary in size from 0.6 of an inch to 30 inches

• They have no outer ears but can detect sounds in the frequency range from 200-600 Hz

• Chameleons can live up to 10 years

With all of those amazing abilities, Chameleons are the coolest of the cool when it comes to reptiles! I'm sure every Chameleon owner out there would agree. Below are some pictures I took as my Chameleon drawing came to life. As always thanks for taking the time to stop by my blog and look at my work. Your support is a huge inspiration to me.

Here are some photos taken during my drawing process

Here's the finished drawing

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Dragon Tales and Scales

Drawing a Bearded Dragon

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Bearded Dragon. 11x17" Ballpoint Pen and Ink wash

I'm really really enjoying drawing reptiles with lots of scales right now, and this drawing is probably my most ambitious reptile drawings to date. The detail that a Bearded Dragon possesses is truly amazing. It's complex scaly skin, patterning, and thorns are extraordinary at close examination, but my drawing only scratches the surface of what this little lizard's body really looks like.

when I take on a drawing as detailed as this, I like to break the drawing down into several stages and tasks. I don't try very hard to mimic reality, I'm more concerned with making up cool designs and patterns. So first I figure out the size and style of the scales I'm going to draw by adding in just a few throughout the piece. All the others are drawn spontaneously as I go. I then lay down the outline of a row of scales and after that go back and shade in each one, one at a time. It's kinda like building a mosaic of tiles. After I finish an area of scales I shade over them to create texture and depth. You can see this in my progress pictures below. I've been ask to shoot videos as I work, so I hope to do it during my next drawing. I see artists posting videos as they draw on Instagram all the time, which are very interesting to watch. If you have any interest in following my day to day progress as it happens, you can follow me on Instagram.

I've reached 40!

I've reach 40! not in years old, (I'm older than that!) but this is the 40th black and white animal drawing I've done in this series. They are all ruffly 11"x17" in size, and it's taken me about a year to get this far. I feel I've learned a lot along the way about drawing with ink, learning about the animals I've drawn, and had an amazing time meeting and communicating with so many wonderful people through social media and in person about art. So thanks to everyone who as been supportive and encouraging. I've got lots more drawing in me, so the next year should hopefully even be better.

To end, here's a little bit of info about this amazing creature in this drawing. Pogona, which are more commonly referred to as Bearded Dragons, are a reptile which lives in arid semidesert and woodland regions of Australia. They are a common pet in the US but have been banded in Australia from the pet trade. Their triangular heads and flattened bodies with spiny scales arranged in rows and clusters. These are found on the throat, which can be expanded when threatened, and at the back of the head. These spiny scales are used to scare off predators, yet they are not very sharp.

Here are some photos taken during my drawing process

The finished drawing

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Scale by Dragon Scale

Drawing a Komodo Dragon

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Komodo Dragon. 11x17" Ballpoint Pen and Ink wash

It's really hard to believe that the Komodo Dragon (the largest living lizard) was only discovered by humans about 100 years ago. Really? Yup, I'm not joking. They have lived on Indonesia's Lesser Sunda Islands for millions of years and amazingly their existence was unknown to us until they were discovered in 1910. It's basically a living dinosaur. Reaching 10 feet in length, weighting over 350 pounds, Komodos can still reach speeds up to 11 mph in bursts. And they have a life span of more than 30 years. There are around 5,000 of them left, and sadly they have been driven onto the endangered species list. 

Besides being such a interesting animal to draw, the details of their scaly skin just pulled me in. I'm a sucker for repetitive textures, and just love when patterns are woven over a shape. Doing a drawing like this is like knitting a sweater for me. It becomes a form of meditation. As you can see from my progress pictures below I basically crocheted the scales on, while drawing from head to toe.

Here are some photos taken during my drawing process

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Constricting Lines

Drawing a Boa Constrictor

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Boa Constrictor. 11x17" Ballpoint Pen and Ink wash

I've always been fascinated by snakes. Behind the house that I grew up in as a child, in Maryland, was a large area of woods that my brother Tony and I would go searching for snakes to catch and keep as pets. Garter snakes, Rat snakes, Ringneck snakes, and Black snakes were some of the species we would find. We would rarely come across a copperhead, a poisonous snake, but would keep our distance knowing how dangerous it was. We would then bring our catches home and raise them in terrariums and add them to our large collection of found pets. I still can't believe our mother let us do this. Teenagers with a room full of turtles, snakes and fish. A friend of ours had a Boa Constrictor as a pet, and I'll never forget handling it for the first time. Watching its movements as it wrapped around my arm. Studying it complicated patterns and coloring.

The detail and complex patterns of snakes scales and coloring has always intrigued me, and drawing them has always been something I've enjoyed. But this time I wanted to challenge myself even more by not only drawing all of the intricate scales, but doing it on a subject that was twisted and wrapped. What amazed me as I drew it was the complex geometric patterns that a snakes scales create. Below are pictures I took as I drew the Boa. You can see that I literally skinned the snake from head to tail in a grid of lines. And my drawing doesn't come close to the detail of a snakes true skin. Mine is merely a representation. As always, Thank you so much for visiting my blog.

Here are some photos taken during my drawing process

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