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✿ Emma Haephrati/Emychu ✿ She/Her ✿ Concept Artist ✿ I love dinosaurs :)))
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Just found your page, and in in absolute LOVE. What are your preferred books/resources for practicing and studying dinosaur anatomy?
Thanks so much!
Apologies for the late/long reply. I can’t say that I’m “classically trained” in dinosaur anatomy, I’ve just kinda drawn them a lot over a long period of time and followed/taken mental notes from artists far better than I am lol. But, in terms of resources I AM aware of, these are pretty good:
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SkeletalDrawing.com, run by Scott Hartman, has a lot of really well done dinosaur skeletal diagrams to give you an idea of the proportions of different species (as viewed from the side) as well as a few diagrams showing the musculature of theropods like T. rex and Allosaurus and some basic anatomical terms.
https://www.skeletaldrawing.com/
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Matt Dempsey has a lot of spectacular drawings showing the musculatures of various kinds of dinosaurs, and as seen from the side, as well as from the front, back, top, and bottom to boot! They also have some skeletal drawings and some 3D renders of the dinosaur’s life appearances using those musculature diagrams.
https://www.artstation.com/sketchy-raptor
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The Paleoartist’s Handbook: Recreating Prehistoric Animals in Art by paleontologist & artist Mark Witton is available if you’re especially interested in accurately drawing dinosaurs and other extinct life. It’s a book I’ve read, it broadly goes over anatomy for many prehistoric creatures as well as many different aspects of the art form.
https://www.amazon.com/Palaeoartists-Handbook-Recreating-Prehistoric-Animals/dp/1785004611
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Books like Dinosaur Art and Dinosaur Art II showcase a lot of great art by many talented artists, and work great as some general guidelines/inspiration for your own art. They also work pretty well as coffee table art books!
https://www.amazon.ca/Dinosaur-Art-Worlds-Greatest-Paleoart/dp/0857685848
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In terms of some more general references,
RJ Palmer does nice paleoart every now and then and has a detailed diagram showing the anatomy of T. rex.
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Jacob Baardse has some of my favorite 3D renditions of dinosaurs, they do a good job of showing the underlying anatomy while having the models appear extremely lifelike. His Artstation page also has a few pieces where you can view their models in 3D, giving you a better idea for the body shapes at different angles.
https://www.artstation.com/littlebaardo
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There are many other amazing artists, too many to name here. Some of my favorite artists being Andrey Atuchin, Lucas Atwell, Fred Wierum, Joschua Knüppe, Rebecca Dart, David Krentz, Emiliano Troco, and Tom Parker among countless others. Many of them are quite knowledgeable, and if you look them up on social media you’ll find their art and discussions with other talented, knowledgeable people about similar topics.
If you can afford them, David Silva is also producing highly articulated figures for the Beasts of the Mesozoic series. These are very accurate and are made in collaboration with some of the artists already brought up here. Good in-hand art references if that’s to you’re liking. Much better than most dinosaur figures you would find at the dollar store or some large supermarket.
I know this was long-winded and maybe more than you were looking for, but hopefully you at least found it interesting and even a small portion of this helps!
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Quick style and color experiment featuring some lil dinos
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Putting your dromaeosaur in a Snood is a great way to keep them warm in winter AND keep calm during firework displays or thunderstorms!!***
*** we take no responsibility for any injuries sustained while trying to put a dromaeosaur in a Snood
#paleobr#paleo art#paleoillustration#paleoart#paleontology#dromaeosaur#velociraptor#dinosaur#cute dinosaur#cute art
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Update on this portrait of my (upcoming) comic character!
its been going slowly because i've not opened this PSD file since last year haha!!
also how cute is my OC Rosie???
#antikythera comic#victorian oc#victorian era#art tutorial#digital painting#digital art#paleoart#1890s
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really happy with how this (unspesified) (heavily velociraptor inspired) raptor lineart is turning out, this is from a comic project i'm working on so stay tuned if you like historical fiction settings with victorians, domesticated dinosaurs and time travel shenanigans !!
#comic art#comic#paleobr#paleoart#paleontology#graphic novel#antikythera comic#original comic#webcomic#webtoon#art tutorial#paleoillustration#paleomedia#paleo art#theropod#velociraptor#its basically a velociraptor but some kind of very close unspesific species dont look into it too much dfghdfgh
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Summer makes me think about Jurassic Park. I like the comparison Witton makes between seals and Pteranodons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reBTo_94rYU
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The sun rises over Dimetrodon as it travels across the landscape of the Middle Permian, spotting Diplocaulus, Titanoptera, a speculative proto-archosauromorph, and Prionosuchus along the way.
The piece 'Morning, when time had no end' was very kindly composed for this animation by the immensely talented Villi-refurinn. Check them out on Bandcamp for more fantastic music!
This one took a lot longer than usual, with life getting in the way and all that. Thank you all sincerely for waiting for so long!
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Comic pages are slowly being drawn, i've been experimenting with different coloring styles! Featurin our protagonist Lana, a late 19th century archeologist... I wonder what she's digging up there... !!
I was struggling with what style i should go with that wouldn't kill me with the amount of work, but this simple soft shading is pretty simple for me to just shlap on !
To get that ''glow'' in the first image I just Ctrl+Shift+C the whole image > paste > gaussian blur > set layer mode to Darken > lower opacity to about 50%
I also duplicate then blur the rim light to give it that glow effect too!
#comic art#original comic#victorian oc#victorian era#antikythera comic#graphic novel#webcomic#webtoon#comic#art tutorial#comic tutorial
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