Dexter Goes AWWW YEAHHHH! by @jessratte (Jessica Ratté)

(Forgive the random spaces and stuff. Once again I just copy and pasted the description off of deviantART)

There are several things I've learned about this picture when I finished it.

1) Dexter seriously needs to lay off the hotdogz. It's called Pedigree, Dex. 2) I'd completely crap my pants if I saw a dog give me a thumbs up. 3) I'm pretty sure it's not even possible for a dog to give you a thumbs up. and 4) Dexter, due to this fact, is some sort of bizarre missing link in which, animals didn't quite make it to the humanoid stage. Or something.

So I was sitting there, and I have all sorts of types of paper that I can use for fun experiments. I have this package of larger cardstock paper that I bought at an art store, but I had it shoved in my drawer for Lord knows how long, and I finally just decided to whip it out and draw something on it. I thought, since its big, I could cut it up into smaller papers (I'M SMART! :iconlarryplz: ) and then draw smaller pictures on these pieces of cardboard (IMAGINE THAT.) Not only would I be able to draw smaller pictures on these, but I could cut the papers into different SHAPES and make DIFFERENT SHAPED PICTURES.

(Really tho, in the end, I just ended up cutting various rectangles and squares. But still.)

So I decided to draw Dexter, since I haven't drawn him for a while, and I really wanted to draw one of my goggie characters since I hadn't drawn any of them for a long time. They're always fun, and really quick to draw so they make for good warming up and stuff. So here is Dexter, drawn on a piece of cardstock that I cut into a longer, thinner sheet of paper to make my picture..more...exciting. I guess. And yes, he is a dog, and evidently, he is giving you a thumbs up. I was attempting to make the picture exciting by having him look back at you, and then I was trying to make it more exciting by adding a thumbs up. Because we all know dogs have opposable thumbs. :iconimsarcasticplz: /sarcasm.

Altho, it kinda looks like he's flipping a coin too. Or, maybe a doggie kibble. Or maybe he's not flipping anything at all. XD

Anyway, I like how this one came out, altho sometimes when I do these back-facing-you pictures I'm always worried that their heads are doing The Exorcist or something, or that they just don't look right. I think he looks okay, meaning he doesn't look too demonic and head-twisty.

But seriously, Dexter is fat. XD But thats okay, fat goggies are the best. So squishy and cuddly!

Anyway, aside for that, the picture turned out relatively well, altho I was having some inking issues. I screwed up inking part of his fur on his neck, so I had to thicken up one part of the line to make it look alright. To me, it stands out like a sore thumb, but maybe not so much to you guys. But what DOES stand out tho is the crappy scan AS USUAL. For some reason my stupid scanner has a HELL of a time scanning in black, and it scanned in the black parts of his body all messed up and ugly. You can see all the "streaky" lines and stuff, where I coloured and pressed the pencil down really hard. NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT SCANNER. YOU FAIL. YOU TOTALLY, TOTALLY FAIL. Not to mention it scanned in the inking really bad too. It's all wobbly and goes from light to dark and then back to light again periodically throughout the picture and that just totally annoys me. You can hardly see the inking on his face, atleast on his nose (NOOOO NOT THE NOSE! ITS THE BEST PART!), or snout, or whatever you wanna call it, and ARGADFSAFDASFDS!!

Anyway. Aside from that, I just whipped out some watercolours and did the backgorund that way. Usually I use watercolour pencils but I wanted to use just regular watercolours, so I sat there for like, ever, trying to remember where I put them and off I went. I like how the background turned out, altho it might just blend in too much with Dexter, I haven't decided yet.

So yes, this was fun to do, altho I'll admit I actually momentarily forgot how to draw Dexter 0.0 He's actually really easy, but sometimes the way his ears are messes me up and I forget what I'm doing. He's a German Shepard, but unlike most German Shepards, his ears are all discaboobalated and not pointy-uppy, if you know what I mean...Which you probably don't, because I never make any sense. :iconimafailureplz:

I wanna poke his belly. Not only is it fat, but it's furry, and thats adorable. D'awwwww.

So yes, just Tex-a-Dex! (LOLWUT??) And he's going AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW YEAHHHH!!! (I dunno, it just looked like thats what he was doing. XD Dexter here is © to Jess Ratte :D