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Ex Libris Dragonby ~JonBeanHastings

Traditional Art / Drawings / Fantasy

I have a book called "The Art of the Bookplate" by James P. Keenan, which features the history and the art of personalized bookplates (The tipped-in "this book belongs to" plates, also call Ex Libris).

This is a version from an early version of my kid's book, "Terrabella Smoot and the Unsung Monsters" from when it was just going to be a natural history of monsters.

It's good ol' Speedball SuperBlack ink and my trusty Windsor-Newton Series 7 sable hair No. 2 brush.

=hakanpehlivan Jun 4, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

beautiful

~bigbunyip May 13, 2012

I love this. Takes me back to my childhood. Thank you.

~JonBeanHastings May 18, 2012 Professional General Artist

Thanks... that is truly a compliment.

~salmonofdoubt Jun 20, 2005

Heeh! I used to love filling those in every time I got a hardback....

That's some stunning detail you've got there, good textures.... nice work, mate. T'is depressingly good.

~JonBeanHastings Jun 20, 2005 Professional General Artist

Now, now, the picture may be all nice and detail-y, but it took me 20 years to get this good and even then there was plenty of angst-y, hand-cramping time spent to get it right.

~salmonofdoubt Jun 20, 2005

Thanks. Always makes me feel better when I see awesome work to know that it took time.... and practice.... or maybe not, as I'm a lazy arse. *grins* Seems worth it though.

~JonBeanHastings Jun 20, 2005 Professional General Artist

Definitely worth it, for nothing else than people on the opposite side of the globe from me thinking it's cool.

~salmonofdoubt Jun 20, 2005

Arse! It's that obvious I'm a Brit? Not that I'm complaining, mind...

~JonBeanHastings Jun 20, 2005 Professional General Artist

It was your use of "arse" and "mate" ... and also the fact that I went to your page and saw that you were in Britain. Heh.

*senoritafish Jun 18, 2005

I think I want this in all of my books. I knew dragons were readers.

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