three letter word for art

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.

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.

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...