“Snif, snif.. Can you smell that Ceratopsian flesh, guys? The herd should be quite close, lets check it out” For todays #Dinovember sketch I decided to continue yesterdays post. It is a bit rushed tho, so forgive me that lens flare xD
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Finally! Dinovember, day 30! A megalneusaurus takes a colossal chomp at a little tatenectes.
I’ve taken part in Dinovember three times now (skipping 2020), and the first two times, I wasn’t able to complete the month, mostly due to family issues that cropped up at the end of November. Don’t get me wrong, I did a LOT. I made my niece two coloring books to help keep her interest in dinosaurs alive, and she still uses them. And like, 55 drawings, nothing to sneeze at! But this year, I did it! I finished all of them! And it’s my best year yet. I learned a lot, and I think personally that I have greatly improved from what I had done before. I’m very happy with this years Dinovember. Hope my niece enjoys her newest coloring book! Time to assemble it
EDIT, 1/11/22: This entire Dinovember series has been compiled and is now available for purchase on Gumroad! The pages can be printed, or thrown into a digital program! Check it out HERE!
Dinovember, day 28! Not dinosaurs, but a pair of pantosaurus cruising through the Sundance Seaway, cronchin’ on fish as they go
This is it. This is my favorite page from the whole series. I love marine reptiles ❤️
EDIT, 1/11/22: This entire Dinovember series has been compiled and is now available for purchase on Gumroad! The pages can be printed, or thrown into a digital program! Check it out HERE!
Cause Prehistory isn’t just about dinosaurs, I made a poster with every ‘Dinovember Without Dinosaurs’ illustrations that I’ve been drawing during last month. Hope you like it!
ARapetosaurus krauseiand Majungasaurus crenatissimus engaged in interspecific (different species) combat in the midst of a drying marsh.
I haven’t done that many drawings of these two particular animals, so this was a lot of fun. Abelisaurs always have such bizarre and interesting anatomy, CarnotaurusandMajungasaurusespecially.And of course, titanosaurs are just awesome.
Considering that we don’t have any adult specimens of Rapetosaurus, I was a little unsure of how big, at least in terms of height, to make it here. Ultimately, I went for a height that was a little bit more modest, though I probably should have made it taller.
TwoDromaeosaurus fight over a small mammal found in the snow. The one on the right is way more concerned with the mammal than the fight and that’s probably a bad thing.
I’m pretty happy with this and the piece for yesterday for pulling a twofer.
Scolosaurus cutleriwith other contemporary dinosaurs in a typical scene in Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada during the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous period, some 76-75 million years ago.
In the background, a Gorgosaurusfaces off against a pair of Styracosaurus. A Corythosaurus and a Struthiomimus observe the confrontation, while a small group of Parasaurolophus, a lone Lambeosaurus and two Stegocerasare put off and begin tomove away. Passing by the grazing Scolosaurus in the foreground, a mating pair of Stenonychosaurus prowl the undergrowth looking for prey. A small mammal, Deltatheridium,isperched on a nearby log while foraging. Off in the distance, three migrating Quetzalcoatlussoar over the forest.
Despite my fondness for a lot of the dinosaurs that lived in the Dinosaur Provincial Park region, I don’t frequently draw that many scenes from this particular locality and point in time. I guess I always sort of preferred drawing scenes from Maastrichian Hell Creek. Nevertheless, I still am fascinated with the Dinosaur Provincial Park fauna and really enjoyed working on this scene. It gave the chance to experiment a bit more with the colors and draw some animals I haven’t really done in a long time.
Day 18: Brontosaurus with another contemporary dinosaur (dryosaurus)
“out of the way, coming through!”
I’m going to say it- I dislike drawing Sauropods so I mainly focused on Dryosaurus, but as you can see they’re avoiding a Brontosaurus that doesn’t care if it treads them underfoot- they’ve gotta be somewhere!
A couple of baby Pelecanimimus inspired by excited baby emus. They hop around like little bipedal puppies when they get work up and it’s as great as it is potentially applicable to any dinosaurs.
Also why is Pelecanimimus’ name based on a pelican when they aren’t spelled the same way? It’s stupid.
How great would it be if there was one of these guys left alive and it just hung out on a church roof all day? And altar boys would get sent up to feed it all sorts of greens. Sounds like a children’s book. I better get royalties for this.
APrenoceratops with an infected ankle. Not a “cool” injury by any means, but probably one of the more unfortunate. Whether you’re predator or prey, a busted leg is really bad.
I decided to show some extra “phases” since I thought they looked good. Not sure if the red color on the ankle comes through, but it sure is swollen. Also, look at me uploading one of these pieces early in the day!
Eotyrannus is out for a walk when she turns her head abruptly behind her. She’s almost sure she heard something fall into the ferns not too far back…
I thought it would be cool to try this more angular vector-type style for the prompt today and (while kinda frustrating) was still fun. I actually really like this look, even if I may not be returning to it soon.
drawing environments is difficult for me; but I’m making an effort to try to improve on them. Here’s a herd of Ouranosaurus walking along a stream in the early morning mist, while the weather foretells rain.
Fun fact! not being able to draw environments was a factor in me dropping out of university
Love the character in that Ouranosaur with the chunk taken out of its sail! Also, that environment is way better than what I can do rn. :p
In which Sinraptorgets a head start on the day with a brisk walk. There’s some Mamenchisaurus hanging out in the background too, also up and at ‘em. I will be genuinely surprised if anyone can guess what either of these two’s colors are based on.
I won’t be coloring every drawing digitally, but I’d love to get more practice in with as many as I can.
Dinovember is finally here and I’m hoping this will be a strong start to the month!
Here are some Achelousaurus engaging in intraspecific combat while a Bambiraptor realizes it probably should have left like 5 minutes ago. Perspective is hard and I totally made the rightAchelousaurus’ head too big, but that just happens sometimes.
If anyone else is following along with my challenge, I’d love to see what you make!
*As a disclaimer, this isn’t a giveaway or anything, just a name I came up with for this thing I made. I don’t know if that needed to be said, but I figured I’d play it safe.
I have no art today, but I did spend a while planning something for next month.
Dinovember is just around the corner and I thought it might be neat to come up with my own prompts for all 30 days. I wanted to take the month to draw a bunch of dinosaurs I’ve never really drawn, thought about, or really heard about, and I thought some vague prompts could help inspire me to make some cool pieces. So I made my own list at the risk of stealing the thunder of the “official” one that seems to have been making the rounds for a while now.
If anyone thinks this sounds neat, I’ve outlined the rules below:
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The Dinovember Powerball
As I already mentioned, I wanted to use this month to draw dinosaurs I never pay attention to in ways I never would have thought of myself. And what better way to do it than through random match ups?
I thought a good way to do this was to get a varying list of vague prompts together where each individual prompt should feasibly work for any dinosaur. Then, randomly assign a dino to each prompt to potentially give you some new and fresh combinations.
Now the actual selection is where all the random chance (and in my opinion the fun) comes in. What you’ll need to do is compile a group of 30 different dinosaur names using whatever methods work best for you. You can hand pick them, randomly flip to pages in a book, go surfing the web for a while, or this website can be pretty helpful as well. Once you’ve got your dinosaurs together, pick them at random one by one and assign them to prompts moving down the list. You can use random number generators for this, pull names out of a hat, again, just whatever sounds practical and fun.
This “Powerball” mechanism (however you choose to go about it) helps to keep the prompts interesting. Tropes get broken down and switched around, “what ifs” arise, and imagination takes over. And that’s not to say you can’t assign prompts to certain dinosaurs as you like, I just think the chaotic element helps to really shake things up. You do you, I’m not your mom.
But enough of my overly wordy explanation. Here are the prompts. The blanks are where the dinosaur names go (duh).
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Day 1: ________ engaging in intraspecific combat (same species).
Day 2: ________ on a pleasant stroll.
Day 3: ________ sleeping or lying down.
Day 4: ________ escaping.
Day 5: ________ drawn from the front.
Day 6: ________ with a nest.
Day 7: ________ in color/vivid colors.
Day 8: A highly speculative reconstruction of ________.
Day 9: ________ eating.
Day 10: ________ in a dynamic/cool pose.
Day 11: A landscape that also includes ________.
Day 12: ________ falling.
Day 13: ________ in a different art style than your usual.
Day 14: A scarred or injured ________.
Day 15: ________ in black & white/with dull colors.
Day 16: ________ in the rain/snow/inclement weather.
Day 17: ________ as a baby/juvenile.
Day 18: ________ with other (contemporary?) dinosaurs.
Day 19: ________ running.
Day 20: ________ engaging in interspecific combat (different species).
Day 21: ________ drinking.
Day 22: ________ with its offspring.
Day 23: An old and weathered ________.
Day 24: ________ being eaten.
Day 25: The head/head and neck of ________.
Day 26: ________ being aggressive.
Day 27: Possible sexual dimorphism in ________ (difference in sexes).
Day 28: ________ swimming.
Day 29: ________ in the modern era.
Day 30: ________ interacting with some non-dinosaur.
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I already have my dinosaurs and days all figured out, so I’m set to go. But I’ll leave the actual combinations a surprise until they’re posted.
If you think of anything that could add to a certain prompt or need to tweak it somewhat for your means, feel free to play with this template. I just wanted to get this out there to see if anybody might benefit from it.
