Here we see a very bold flock of pterodactyls butting in on three Allosaurus who are scavenging on a dead stegosaurus. Big mistake!
Another of my only semi-successful late 1990's dinosaur illustrations. I remember being very happy with the drawing on this one but having very mixed feelings (mostly disappointment) with how the colors turned out. It ended up a lot more yellow than I had originally hoped. There is a little bit of everything in this one: pen and ink, acrylic paint, colored pencils, colored inks, probably some watercolor and I think even a few traces of magic marker. Which is not evidence of how "artsy" I am but rather how panicked I was - that I was losing control of the color scheme - and just trying everything I could think of to "save it".
I think I did this illustration in 1998 or maybe 1999? Anyway, it has been stored away ever since. So it had been a few years since I saw it last. It turned up while I was cleaning my closet the other day and I thought, "well this one isn't as bad as I remember it being." So I decided to post it.
I look forward to all the dino-know-it-alls who will soon leave comments to inform me that my science is all wrong AGAIN... because Allosaurus would never scavenge on a dead stegosaurus, or would never travel in a group of three, or would never be in a desert, or would never fight pterodactyls, or whatever. One of the funny things I've learned about dinosaur fans is that every single one of them (us?) knows more about dinosaurs than anybody else, and must correct everybody else. Haha.
--- Around 1996 or so, I got really seriously interested in trying to take my childhood love of drawing dinosaurs and turn it into a job doing "paleoillustration". I managed to get some of my drawings into one small-circulation dinosaur magazine and a scattering of children's books but that was about it. By late 1999 I gave up, and just went back to my first love, monsters and horror. I found a pile of my old dino art while cleaning my closet the other day, and thought I'd post some of the better ones.
Damn man, this is insane!! The attention to detail is mind-blowing as is the amount of energy contained in this one image. Terrific work.
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Boy..the next words outta your mouth better be some brilliant fucking Mark Twain type shit 'cause it is definitely getting chissled on your tombstone. -Otis B. Driftwood
I used to look at lots of books on dinosaur skeletons/ anatomy. And I used to check my facts with lots of books by reliable paleontologists. Thats how I taught myself to draw these critters but after doing that for a while you learn how to draw them from your imagination. So my answer to your question is a little bit yes and no.
I always thought your color choices were reminiscent of Gregory S. Paul's work. Bold chromatic choices which make the work pop. You need to do some new dinosaur pieces. I would love to see what your time in animation would add to your work.
Greg Paul was always my number one favorite dinosaur artist, and dinosaur-thinker. His illustrations - not to mention the basic, common sense theories about dinosaur behavior that he presented in his classic book "Predatory Dinosaurs of the World" were simply profound. That book, and the article on "Drawing Dinosaurs" that he wrote and illustrated for the Dinosaur Symposium book, became the yardstick that I measured all my own dino art by. Other stuff by other people was influential but nobody ever taught me more about how to draw dinosaurs than Greg Paul.
Lately I haven't had time to do any new dinosaur pieces. Or personal illustration projects of any type, for that matter. Since April 2009 I have been working pretty much non-stop as the new artist on the comic book series "Hack/Slash" for Tim Seely and Devil's Due Publications. The deadlines have been tight on every issue so far, and there just hasn't been any spare time left over to tinker with my own personal art projects.
...And if there was, I wouldn't be drawing dinosaurs, believe me, I would be working on more of my "Wulf and Batsy" stories. That's the personal work that has been closest to my heart for the past 8 years or so, and I've got more story ideas written about those guys than I can even keep up with, drawing wise. But I feel determined to get back to them when time allows.
I guess I'm just not excited about dinosaurs like I used to be. There's just not enough money in paleo illustration for all that studytime to be worthwhile. And again, even when I was really "into" dinosaurs they were still a second love. Monsters and horror stories have always been way more important to me, and I feel very cozy now that I am back to giving my zombies, vampires, and werewolves my full attention!
That said, I think you'll see plenty of how "my time in animation has added to my work" when these Hack/Slash issues come out. Not to toot my own horn but I think my visual storytelling and compositions have come a long way and my figures are a lot looser and livelier than they used to be.
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"Well that's all believable with me...along with flying pigs and the tooth-fairy!" *kicks*
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Lately I haven't had time to do any new dinosaur pieces. Or personal illustration projects of any type, for that matter. Since April 2009 I have been working pretty much non-stop as the new artist on the comic book series "Hack/Slash" for Tim Seely and Devil's Due Publications. The deadlines have been tight on every issue so far, and there just hasn't been any spare time left over to tinker with my own personal art projects.
...And if there was, I wouldn't be drawing dinosaurs, believe me, I would be working on more of my "Wulf and Batsy" stories. That's the personal work that has been closest to my heart for the past 8 years or so, and I've got more story ideas written about those guys than I can even keep up with, drawing wise. But I feel determined to get back to them when time allows.
I guess I'm just not excited about dinosaurs like I used to be. There's just not enough money in paleo illustration for all that studytime to be worthwhile. And again, even when I was really "into" dinosaurs they were still a second love. Monsters and horror stories have always been way more important to me, and I feel very cozy now that I am back to giving my zombies, vampires, and werewolves my full attention!
That said, I think you'll see plenty of how "my time in animation has added to my work" when these Hack/Slash issues come out. Not to toot my own horn but I think my visual storytelling and compositions have come a long way and my figures are a lot looser and livelier than they used to be.
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