Terryl A. Whitlatch | Muddy Colors

Where the Deer and the Antelope Play

Posted by Terryl A. Whitlatch | Saturday, February 22nd, 2014

By Terryl Whitlatch Here in the Golden West (otherwise known as California) where I live, I’m...

Cats in a Hurry

Posted by Terryl A. Whitlatch | Saturday, January 25th, 2014

-By Terryl Whitlatch Deadlines are that necessary part of an illustrator’s life that keep things...

Little Theropods All Around Us

Posted by Terryl A. Whitlatch | Saturday, July 6th, 2013

-By Terryl Whitlatch So often as concept artists, creature designers, and illustrators we get so...

Creaturely Creatures

Posted by Terryl A. Whitlatch | Saturday, April 13th, 2013

By Terryl Whitlatch It’s so lovely to be able to return to Muddy Colors after a sabbatical of some...

Not Your Average Dragon

Posted by Terryl A. Whitlatch | Saturday, September 15th, 2012

-By Terryl Whitlatch Face it. Dragons are fun to draw. We see their images everywhere—films, TV,...

Alien Portraiture

Posted by Terryl A. Whitlatch | Saturday, August 18th, 2012

By Terryl Whitlatch Towards the end of my tenure at JAK films (aka the Star Wars—the Phantom...

It’s a Bird, it’s a Plane, no…it’s a Horse!

Posted by Terryl A. Whitlatch | Saturday, August 4th, 2012

By Terryl Whitlatch All of us have grown up with symbolic and iconic images, and perhaps one of...

Summertime, Savannah, and some Toile Tails

Posted by Terryl A. Whitlatch | Saturday, July 21st, 2012

By Terryl Whitlatch It’s Summer again, and for many of us in our industry, it’s also the season...

To “People” a Planet — The Age of the Styrah

Posted by Terryl A. Whitlatch | Saturday, July 7th, 2012

-By Terryl Whitlatch World building, and all that it implies. From Middle Earth to Narnia to...

Disney, Brother Bear and the “Bear Necessities”

Posted by Terryl A. Whitlatch | Saturday, June 23rd, 2012

-Terryl Whitlatch One of the major divisions of Creature Design is that of depicting real animals,...

Teemto Pagalies and other Denizens of a Galactic Zoo

Posted by Terryl A. Whitlatch | Saturday, June 9th, 2012

-By Terryl Whitlatch During the late 1990’s, I had the wonderful privilege of being the principal...

Ancient Wings in the Vineyard

Posted by Terryl A. Whitlatch | Saturday, May 26th, 2012

-By Terryl Whitlatch The French have a word for it, that sense of time and place. It’s known as...

Paleo-Illustration Into Creature Design, A Natural Partnership

Posted by Terryl A. Whitlatch | Saturday, May 12th, 2012

-By Terryl Whitlatch I am first and foremost, a paleo illustrator specializing in vertebrate, or...

Interview: Terryl Whitlatch

Posted by Terryl A. Whitlatch | Thursday, February 24th, 2011

-By Dan dos Santos Terryl Whitlatch was born in Oakland, California, and started drawing at less...

Sidharth Chaturvedi on 10 Things…ContrastGreat, informative post, Greg. And a stunning painting! I LOVE those windows!
Justin Van Liew on Fantastic Arts ConferenceExciting!
Art Carnrick on How to Match Any ColorExcellent tutorial... thank you, maestro!
Howard Lyon on Fantastic Arts ConferenceDefinitely!
Justin Van Liew on Fantastic Arts ConferenceWow, this sounds fantastic. Would there be time to get some books/prints/cards signed by yourself, Justin, & Dan?

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