Styles Dinosaur and Reptile Skins

[pioneer]

I have downloaded previously Fur an Animal styles.  I just wondered if anybody had created any dinosaur or reptile styles?  I am creating a Dinosaur birthday card for my young grandson and cannot find anything suitable to print the SVG files onto. Cheers John

[StuartRc]

Always up for dinosaurs! I am sure you will get a good response!

Maybe...
You could try these
Camouflage
 

There are also some brushes you could use

Organics

There are also some scalable patterns in the new 'Poison Asset Set' but not on forum yet

[pioneer]

Stuart,  Thank you for these, I will look at using two rectangles one from set1 with a png background where I can use another rectangle with an infill background in conjunction with your style.  Thank you so much.  Cheers John

[StuartRc]

1 minute ago, pioneer said:

Stuart,  Thank you for these, I will look at using two rectangles one from set1 with a png background where I can use another rectangle with an infill background in conjunction with your style.  Thank you so much.  Cheers John

No Problem!...I am just putting together a quick assets/Ad file from some vectors that may help you..won't be long!

[pioneer]

Thank you Stuart,  His birthday is not until March.  I do the artwork designing and my wife puts the card together using her Brother scanNcut.  teamwork in lockdown.  Cheers John 

[StuartRc]

Her you go....See what you can do with these patterns.... They are all vector!

Skin_Lizard pattern options_02.zip

[pioneer]

Stuart that was so kind of you.  I am sure I can make great use of these.  Cheers John

[firstdefence]

A few from me, these are all seamless so can be used as bitmaps from the fill tool. These are raster textures.

 

Jurassic Patterns.afphoto

[firstdefence]

Having a tinker about in the latest beta of Affinity Photo and I'm liking the the new "Brush from selection" option 🤗

[firstdefence]

Time-traveller snap from facebook, so it must be real... this is an Affinitysaurus rex or A-rex for short.

[John Rostron]

17 hours ago, StuartRc said:

Her you go....See what you can do with these patterns.... They are all vector!

Skin_Lizard pattern options_02.zip 1.45 MB · 4 downloads

@StuartRc, these patterns look impressive, but they look nothing like any dinosaur i have ever seen. It will depend, of course, on the target viewers. For children's story books they would be great (Stewart the Patchwork Dinosaur), but not if verisimilitude is needed. 

Reptile scales should have a modest degree of symmetry. If you want to get a good impression of reptile skin, look at a chicken's leg

John

[jmwellborn]

Your patterns are truly inspired @firstdefence!   Just for fun I downloaded your images in Photo, Mac v. 1.8.4 and promptly received a notification that the file wouldn't open.  So I opened it instead in the latest Beta and wondered whether @pioneer was having the same issue.  And whether brand new users would come a cropper with this as well.  I decided to turn your images into Styles, just to see what would happen.   I made the styles in the Beta, exported them and then imported them into v. 1.8.4 without a hitch.  So here is the file, in case you would like to see them.   If you would rather not have your images turned into Styles, please feel free to hide this post!

Before I fiddled with your images I experimented with some reptile images from Unsplash, and created a few skin styles from them.  Not a howling success but possible to do.  

Dex's Jurassic Patterns.afstyles

[firstdefence]

2 hours ago, jmwellborn said:

Your patterns are truly inspired @firstdefence!   Just for fun I downloaded your images in Photo, Mac v. 1.8.4 and promptly received a notification that the file wouldn't open.  So I opened it instead in the latest Beta and wondered whether @pioneer was having the same issue.  And whether brand new users would come a cropper with this as well.  I decided to turn your images into Styles, just to see what would happen.   I made the styles in the Beta, exported them and then imported them into v. 1.8.4 without a hitch.  So here is the file, in case you would like to see them.   If you would rather not have your images turned into Styles, please feel free to hide this post!

Before I fiddled with your images I experimented with some reptile images from Unsplash, and created a few skin styles from them.  Not a howling success but possible to do.  

Dex's Jurassic Patterns.afstyles 80.1 MB · 1 download

That's great, I hope people get some fun out of them.

[R C-R]

5 hours ago, John Rostron said:

@StuartRc, these patterns look impressive, but they look nothing like any dinosaur i have ever seen.

How many dinosaurs have you actually seen???  😮

[firstdefence]

16 hours ago, StuartRc said:

Her you go....See what you can do with these patterns.... They are all vector!

Skin_Lizard pattern options_02.zip 1.45 MB · 5 downloads

These are vectors, totally configurable, sublime textures, layering possibilities and colour shifts, all the squares are seamless to. Resolution independent and crafted with a lot of skill and care, StuartRc is a sublime texture artist. 

[John Rostron]

8 hours ago, R C-R said:

How many dinosaurs have you actually seen???  😮

It can be argued that birds are actually dinosaurs, hence my comment about chicken legs.

John

[firstdefence]

17 minutes ago, John Rostron said:

It can be argued that birds are actually dinosaurs, hence my comment about chicken legs.

John

I like the idea of that, makes for a more colourful dinosaur world. Saw a person a while back making a diorama and they used a kingfishers colours as a swatch for a dinosaurs colouring.

[John Rostron]

1 hour ago, firstdefence said:

I like the idea of that, makes for a more colourful dinosaur world. Saw a person a while back making a diorama and they used a kingfishers colours as a swatch for a dinosaurs colouring.

Current research is showing two remarkable things:

1. Many smaller dinosaurs and even some big ones were brightly coloured at least in part, although this was often confined to the males.
2. The distinction between birds and dinosaurs is increasingly fuzzy. Many small dinosaurs and even some medium-sized ones had feathers!

John

[firstdefence]

3 minutes ago, John Rostron said:

Current research is showing two remarkable things:

1. Many smaller dinosaurs and even some big ones were brightly coloured at least in part, although this was often confined to the males.
2. The distinction between birds and dinosaurs is increasingly fuzzy. Many small dinosaurs and even some medium-sized ones had feathers!

John

Just been reading about this, also read a surprising tidbit of info re velociraptors and their actual size which, contrary to movies like Jurassic park were much smaller than they they are portrayed, the comparable size was "turkey sized" just shows how movies can distort truth.

 

[StuartRc]

On 2/1/2021 at 8:34 AM, firstdefence said:

These are vectors, totally configurable, sublime textures, layering possibilities and colour shifts, all the squares are seamless to. Resolution independent and crafted with a lot of skill and care, StuartRc is a sublime texture artist. 

Thank you! was a bit inspired to do some more work on this...

Added 30 pattern styles and 30 raster brush assets to resources. Based on dinosaur skin..!
 

Dinosaur Assets

[Alfred]

On 2/1/2021 at 8:34 AM, firstdefence said:

Resolution independent and crafted with a lot of skill and care, StuartRc is a sublime texture artist.

Stuart is indeed a great texture artist, Dex, but I strongly suspect you didn’t really mean to describe him as “resolution independent and crafted with a lot of skill and care”! 😛

[jmwellborn]

On 2/1/2021 at 5:10 AM, John Rostron said:

Current research is showing two remarkable things:

1. Many smaller dinosaurs and even some big ones were brightly coloured at least in part, although this was often confined to the males.
2. The distinction between birds and dinosaurs is increasingly fuzzy. Many small dinosaurs and even some medium-sized ones had feathers!

John

I found the answer to 2.  See below. 😏

[StuartRc]

27 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Stuart is indeed a great texture artist, Dex, but I strongly suspect you didn’t really mean to describe him as “resolution independent and crafted with a lot of skill and care”! 😛

Well I could be I will plug myself into the USB port and see what happens!

[StuartRc]

10 minutes ago, jmwellborn said:

I found the answer to 2.  See below. 😏

I hope not!...I will have to throw away all my dinosaur books!

[jmwellborn]

3 minutes ago, StuartRc said:

I hope not!...I will have to throw away all my dinosaur books!

One never knows what one will find stashed away in the depths of one's hard drive when reduced to sprucing it up on a cold, rainy, windy, utterly foul February afternoon.  Hence the cartoon.  Your dinosaur brushes and styles are superb!😷