#palaeoart

Hi everyone, hope you’re all staying safe and staying indoors during this pandemic!

I had a go at drawing a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton in Paint (I based it on lots of different drawings and photos of skeletons I saw, but the one I used the most is the Nation’sT. rex at the Smithsonian. The leg stance is my own, so palaeotumblr, let me know if that’s anatomically impossible!)

After that I decided to have a go at giving it a body. I hope I didn’t make it too shrink-wrapped?

Palaeoartists - feel free to give me a critique so I can improve for next time!

A few things I opted to include, along with sources linked:

• Feathers on the back and arms, but nowhere else.
• Lips. Enamel has been found preserved on theropod teeth, which needs to be kept wet. Crocodilians live in water so don’t need lips, but theropods may have.
• Crocodile-like integument on the face.
• Neck ribs and gastralea (stomach ribs), which are delicate, hard to mount and often missing from museum skeletons!
• Keratinised facial features are from this Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong video.
• I tried to make it obvious that the eyes face forward, the hands are supinated, not pronated, and the feet are digitigrade - common mistakes in beginner dino art!

Possible mistakes I can see already, palaeotumblr let me know!

• The tail looks way too thin to be an effective counterweight to that huge head, should it be thicker?
• More keratin on the lachrymal than just that little eyebrow-like ridge?
• Would the feathers stop there, or would they plausibly extend all the way down the dorsal side of the tail? I know the ventral side was scaly as we have impressions for that. 
• The teeth need to be more obviously heterodont, but that’s hard to draw in Paint!

i-draws-dinosaurs:

So, announcement time again!! The university term is over and that means I’ve got time to open commissions for the first time! I am currently limiting commissions to 4 available slots to avoid overwhelming myself since I’m new to this. I’ve put as much info as I can into the slides and the transcript below, but please contact me if you have any questions!

TRANSCRIPT:

I Draws Dinosaurs Art Commissions! 

*All prices in Australian Dollars

Dino-Squares (3000x3000px): $40

Lineless Graphic (A4, 600dpi): $40

Fully Detailed & Shaded (A4, 600dpi): $80

Fully Shaded Character (A$, 600dpi):

• Half Body (waist-up): $40
• Full Body: $60

If you would like to commission me:

• Contact me via DMs, and we can have a chat about what you want!
• I will share my PayPal details with you, with half the payment upfront
• I will send you a preliminary sketch to make sure you’re happy with the composition (if you want any major changes made, that is the time!)
• I’ll keep you updated as the artwork progresses
• Once the illustration is complete, I will send the full-size completed illustration to you after I have received the second half of the payment

I will draw:

• Prehistoric animals (I specialise in dinosaurs but others are fair game!)
• Any other animals/plants
• Humans (original characters or characters from media)
• Mild blood / injury

I will not draw:

• NSFW / Sexual content
• Strong violence / gore
• Portraits of real people

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me!

Yutyrannus

Based on a skeletal by Ashley Patch

Triceratops 

Tyrannosaurus rex

Pelecanimimus 

Aldiomedes, an albatross from the Pliocene of New Zealand

Inostrancevia

Heterodontosaurus sketch 

Megaloceros giganteus

Spinosaurus

Mosasaurus 

Phorusrhacos

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just9art:

The hunter from down under, Australovenator

Woolly Rhino Portrait

by Jane Horton

Coelophysis

by Orin Zebest

“Honest to god real quality pictures will resume tomorrow.“

Uh. I lied, sorry,

Day 4: A Velociraptor does not appreciate being manhandled by a Deinocheirus.

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Honest to god real quality pictures will resume tomorrow.

Just a quick sketch today for Dinovember Day 3: Titanis finally being allowed to relax in palaeoart for once, in this case with his chicks.

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Some days, it’s just too hot to act out Predator-Prey dynamics.

Day 1 of Dinovember, who’s surprised I’m doing this. An Allosaurus takes shade in the shadow of a resting Brachiosaurus during the height of the Morrison Summer.

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Mammal Overload

The next set of Animals for @huxley-paleozoo;Leptictidium auderiense,Pholidocercus hassiacus,Darwinius massilae, and Kopidodon macrognathus, all mammals from the Early-to-Middle Eocene, known from the Messel Pit of Germany.

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The two newest animal profile pictures for @huxley-paleozoo, Kulindadromeus  zabaikalicusandThylacosmilus atrox.

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Getting my very first Adoptables up and running! Each of these are $10, no more than two per customer. If you’re interested, contact me at [email protected].

#1 - Albino: OPEN
#2 - Dusky: OPEN
#3 - Kakapo - OPEN
#4 - Red Tiger: OPEN
#5 - Vulture: OPEN

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Spinosaurus had a Tail Paddle and that’s Rad as hell. Rad enough to break my artblock, if only briefly.

TFW the guy that tried to eat you yesterday is wallowing in your favorite mudbank.

Took a small break from Dinovember but we’re back for Day #13.

This was partly inspired by talks on discord of T. rex’s skin, which gave me the idea of T. rex wallowing in mud to cool off. An idea definitely unrepresented in media.

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AYutyrannus huali to match the [Sinotyrannus] for Day 9 of Dinovember.

This is actually a sort-of remake of this ancient piece from 2015:

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Another quick one for Dinovember Day 8: Ugrunaaluk(akaEdmontosaurus maybe. IDK, I just think the name is cool.)

Don’t ask what these colors are, I have no clue.

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So I ended up busier yesterday than I thought I would be, so to make up for missing Day 6 here’s a much more finished piece to encompass Day 6 and 7 of Dinovember.

A speculative male Sinotyrannus kazuoensis with a casque like modern Hornbills, supported by the small crest as a boss. I have no clue how sound this is morphologically, I just think it looks cool.

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Alright, back to actual effort for real.

Something simple for Day 5: a Coelophysis being the nimble little bean pole dinosaur it was.

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