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.

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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.