Dinovember Day 11: A landscape with a Diplodocus in it.
While I’m happy that I’ve mastered tree trunks, I still need to work on the leaves.
Here’s an old Diplodocus wandering into a forest to lay a clutch of eggs.
like it said on the prompt- I didn’t want too much attention focused on the dinosaur, so I opted to hide its head within the foliage as to give it a ‘fleeting glimpse’ vibe to it.
Uteodon sleeping on the skull of some past potential predator. All is well in the Jurassic today.
The colors are super vaguely based on masks and horses painted for Día de los Muertos. I know I’m a little late, but a neighborhood near me just had their parade today.
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!
Unpopular opinion: Tyrannotitan is just an off-brand, overhyped Giganotosaurus with an edgier name. Mapusaurus at least has a more complete skull and a more respectable name.
*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.
A small nocturnal predator of the Plains known as Ornitholestes is a rare sight. Unlike other clawfoots, this creature is only active during the night. During the wet season they leave their forested homelands to prowl around the vegetation. Given its small legs, it can creep while being completely covered. Fast getaways are unlikely, however. Talenta halflings name the creature a clawfoot, and the first toe is indeed enlarged as in others. However, further inspection shows a more primitive animal. Rather than using its talons to hunt, Ornitholestes use their large forelimbs to grab prey. Most of the time they use this for subduing flying prey that rest on the ground. If their target makes a getaway they can use the arms to snatch them out of their air. This does not work well on large animals able to break its grasp or tiny animals small enough to slip between its fingers. The toes and shaggy arms are used for climbing trees, where it eats its prey and sleeps during the day. It is neither strong nor fast enough to protect food from other predators on the plains, so it uses the “flash” forests that pop up during the wet season as hideaways. Ornitholestes is a rather cryptic species. They opt not to make the loud calls associated with other clawfoots. Communication between others of its own species is rare and unlikely. If two meet while prowling for prey they will stance on one another until the other retreats, but never actually get into combat. When caught by a predator, Ornitholestes must use their dark spotted pelage to blend in, climb a tree, or accept the inevitable. Halflings rarely encounter Ornitholestes, as they are too skittish to steal from tribe larders. They don’t figure into many stories. Traveling anthropologists have only ever found one mask made in their image, painted with bright pink colors associated with cowardice and buffoonery.
