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I started this drawing a few weeks ago, based on  this skeletal drawing by Scott Hartman. Just a brief pencil sketch with only a little bit of detail.  I didn't think I'd finish it, but I must have gotten a second wind last week, and followed it through. Because I'm less-than-diligent at scaling my drawings to match the skeletal closely, I'm not satisfied with the proportions, especially the length of the torso, legs and neck, and the size of the head.  I'll get it right one of these days.

Been a long time since I posted some dinosaurs.  I've got too many to choose from now.  Here's a few. Digital Ceratosaurus digital rex pencil and digital color Corythosaurus Centrosaurus in oil pen an ink Citipati pen and ink Trike

Just posting these for posting's sake.   I figure I might as well be comprehensive.  A bunch of dino sketches from the last few weeks.  Enjoy.

Colorized and digitized the feathered T. rex I've been working on.  Also fixed the perspective and posture of the legs, which really bothered me in the pencil sketch .   More may yet be done on this one. Utahraptor got a similar treatment, digitally colored in Photoshop, with a complete redo of the arm feathers from the original pen and ink sketch , done way back last year. Albertosaurus Tiny sketches of a rex and and allosaur, each about 3 inches wide.

I haven't posted any feathered tyrannosaur sketches--even though I've done some over the last few months--because I still haven't come up with a truly satisfying way of "fuzzing" them up.  There are some good ones out there, and some bad, stuffed-animal ones.  I wanted mine to look really archosaurian-- birdlike, but reptilian, too.  This might be as close as I've come. I don't know how, but this centrosaur ended up kind of James Gurney-like. This Iguanodon is my first experimentation with gouache.  Have to try to do more of these soon.

I worry about this becoming a dinosaur art blog. While I have been working the last few months, much of the artwork I've made has been dinosaur-related, and not the urban-sketching stuff I usually offer up. Hence the apprehension about posts like these. Oh well, if you don't like dinos, get over it. Here are some recent dinos I done. Some are digital, some pencil, some ink, some done in pencil or ink and colored digitally, etc. Digital Gallimimus, painted in photoshop. Originally gave it pennaceous arm feathers until it was pointed out to me Gallimimus was unlikely to have had them. I've never gotten any feedback on this Camarasaurus from anyone. Not sure if it's good or crappy. I changed this Styracosaurus's head a bit from the drawing to the color version. Guess I didn't like the angle. Ain't computers awesome? Allosaurus fragilis. There's something I like about these foreshortened poses. Will color these eventually. I worr...

Sorry for the seeming redundancy, but these dinosaurs are in color, unlike the last ones.  I suppose that makes them even better. Thanks to Bill's Wacom tablet and a lot of practice, I've almost gotten comfortable adding digital color to my scanned pencil drawings.  Almost. Hey, that reminds me!  If you want me to draw something for you (I think it's called illustration or something), contact me and I will gladly for draw it for the appropriate amount of compensation.  Dinosaurs or otherwise!

For almost two months now I've been employed as a dinosaur expert at Dinosaur Quest here in San Antonio, which has renewed my interest in paleontology, especially drawing dinosaurs.  A long time ago (about fifteen years ago actually) I was a huge dinosaur nut.  I drew dinosaurs constantly, imitating my favorite "paleo-artists" Gregory Paul , Bob Bakker , Doug Henderson , and Mark Hallett .  But as time went on I got interested in other things and stopped drawings dinosaurs.  Then this job happened, and I was looking at dinosaur skeletons all day long.  So for the past month and a half I've been drawing dinos whenever I've had a chance.  Here are some of the better ones.  (And if you're waiting for more urban art, don't worry-- I've done some that I haven't had a chance to scan yet, and I'm also going to Dallas tomorrow with Linda to support her new book that came out yesterday, and I hope to do some urban sketching there, so stay tuned.) Ya...