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sargassos · 2 years
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Another coloring for Dinovember, some wading, banana flavored Hesperosaurus.
The one in the back has evolved from banana to banana bread.
And of course, obligatory link for dinosaur coloring book fun here!
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deceitful-eyes · 2 years
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My first two entries to this year's Dinovember! Day 1 was Eoraptor and Day 2 is Herrerasaurus. Both colorations are inspired by a book I used to own that they appear in, "Life Size Dinosaurs" by David Bergen.
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leaves-and-inks · 1 year
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🍂🌾Prehistoric Harvest🌾🍂
2.0! Sorry for the repost (again lol), however this drawing was really bugging me. After I posted it, I saw a mistake, which isn’t wholly unusual. But then I saw another, and another, and had a new idea about adjustment layers, and elements, and yeah, that led to this. Despite the 6 weeks of time I’ve thought about this, I realized this week that I ended up rushing it a little bit, and wanted to get a better quality piece out for y’all. I hope you like the edits! Since the other post is no more, I’m keeping the original caption in still. Velociraptors hold a special place in my heart. I remember as a child, spending countless hours spent pouring over library books about dinosaurs, but especially velociraptor. This little one rests on some pumpkins with a cup of tea, perfectly content with the harvest this year. I started this piece back in September, and it kept getting pushed to the back burner, but I’m happy it did, as I’ve learned a lot more about procreate in that time. I also learned that Dinovember is a thing, so that works out well for me! I hope y’all like this one, and have a great day/night! :D
[ID: Digital Illustration of a feathered velociraptor sitting on some pumpkins, a cup of tea in its claws. It faces 3/4 left, and sits unnaturally upright, its tail curling up behind it and feet upright at the ankle joint. Its feathers are brown, and has a slight stripe starting before its eye that runs down its side to the end of its tail. It also has a cream underbelly, and dark grey legs and snout, which are scaled. Its legs, and down its body has some perpendicular stripes and its tail is subtly banded. Its feathers are fluffier on the end of it. It holds the tall, pale cup in its hands, revealing the lighter inside of one proto-wing. The cup is full of tea, and steam rises from it. The velociraptor also has a plaid red scarf tied around its neck, one end of it falling between its legs. The three pumpkins are large in size, and the raptor sits on the closest, center one. All the pumpkins have green stems, with leafless vines twirling off of them. The left pumpkin is darker, and the right one lighter. A wooden fence sits behind the velociraptor and pumpkins, and dried grass sits in front of them, with a few long grain stalks rising above the rest of the grass. Glowing, golden orbs of various sizes float in front of and behind the raptor and pumpkins randomly. The canvas is framed in a uneven, textured, off white square, with flecks of color in it. The bottom left corner has a rectangular logo reading “LEAVES AND INKS” each word on a separate line. A textured green circle sits behind the scene, a mostly transparent leaf pattern behind it. while the rest of the background is a textured, darker and warm off-white.
Image 2: Crop focusing on the raptor’s head and arms. Details in the feathers, eyes, and scarf are more apparent. The crop ends midway down the arm, spitting it in half the long way. It also ends midway down the back, and at the end of the steam. The background is only green, and besides some floating orbs no other parts of the illustration are seen.
Image 3: Crop focusing on the pumpkins, left side of the fence, and leftmost part of the velociraptor. The crop starts just above the mug and top of the scarf, and ends at the front forearm, crops most of the excess scarf at the neck, and half of it at the end of the scarf. The bottom of the image is cropped 2/3 down the leftmost and center pumpkin, and at the tips of the lower grass. The background is mostly green, with a small sliver of the off-white background seen on the bottom left. Some floating orbs are visible.
Image 4: Crop of the rightmost part of the velociraptor, focusing on the right leg and tail. The crop starts at the end of the jaw, and just before the right leg. All but the top of the center and rightmost pumpkin are cropped, and midway up the top of one long grass stalk sits in front of them. Some floating orbs are seen, and the only part of the background in frame is the textured green circle, now appearing as a square. /end ID]
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koi-the-kaprosuchus · 2 years
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Dinovember day 16: triceratops! With no help from tumblr for deleting my first draft…. Also a little late because my wifi went down! Hopefully you’ll still take it…?
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Just a couple things I made in art class a while ago! The first is a whiteboard doodle of a triceratops because I had free time, and the second is from a book I made! Our project was to make a book with at least 8 pages using multiple medias. I decided to make my book comparing vintage/pop-culture “dinosaurs” versus the modern ones! The backgrounds are all water color, the “old” in acrylic, the “new” in colored pencil and pen, and the names in letter stamps! The cover used acrylic, hand carved stamps, and book corners. I chose paint for the “old” dinosaurs to mimic oil paintings, and the lack of lineart helping represent our fuzzy understanding of them. The “new” dinosaurs have lineart, representing how much clearer they are to us, and the (cheap) colored pencil represents the new generation of paleontologists and paleoartists. The watercolor backgrounds were meant just to be out of the way, putting focus on the animals. The letter stamps are meant to resemble that of a typewriter. I was originally going to hand write info blurbs, but I ran out of time- for that same reason the paintings aren’t very refined and my book has no title on its cover and my name is sloppily hand written instead of stamped in. The title was supposed to be “a more modern Mesozoic” as a play on “a more ancient dorcet”, which is regarded as one of the first true paleoart pieces.
I realize too late that I could’ve used pages from this book for days that I had no motivation, so why not post them now? Under a cut, of course.
My name is of course blotted out once again. The details on the shells and the megalo nearly killed me since I had no fine detail carving tools or skill, but I persisted!
My name is of course blotted out once again. The details on the shells and the megalo nearly killed me since I had no fine detail carving tools or skill, but I persisted!
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Dinovember day 13: Tyrannosaurus!
I’m not a fan of how static the poses are, and the painting could definitely be way better. As you can see I had a… small accident and got a bit of paint on my modern rex. Guess he was just born with a really weird birthmark. I also meant for him to be bigger than his fictional counterpart, but as you can see, that didn’t work out how I’d hoped.
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Dinovember day 14: Parasaurolophus!
I actually did make a separate drawing for day 14, but it must have been hidden due to the warnings I put on it, because no one seemed to notice it. Oh well I guess. This is one of the pages, if not the page I dislike the most. The old one is too dark, the new one is too bland with bad patterning and pose, and I don’t even know what I was doing on that background. Guess para is just bad luck for me!
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lil-tachyon · 3 years
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One drawing from each month of 2020. Overall feel pretty good about this year. I definitely drew more backgrounds and I think my lineart really improved from last year. Did a ton of commission work compared to previous years and I finished the book I’ve been working on since 2018 (should be out some time in the next couple months, stay posted for deets). Pretty much all of the book and most of the commissions I did have NOT been posted online anywhere so hopefully I can share more of it in 2021.
I think I’ve got my trad lineart/digital colors workflow down and can bang out pieces like that pretty confidently. Can do markers and colored pencils alright but I have to really think about it and it’s much less consistent. Hardly painted either trad or digital this year so I’m trying to get back into that.
I think art-wise my main goal for 2020 is to paint more. I’d like to get back to the point where I can confidently paint anything from ref and I can paint at least a little bit from imagination. I don’t think I tried painting anything from imagination this year at all, sadly. Also want to draw more vehicles. Mechs and robots are fine but I should take the time to do some tanks and cars and stuff. Also no Inktober next year, I’m definitely doing Dinovember instead. Hardly any dinos this year, what a travesty.
Not related to art but I didn’t practice guitar/banjo nearly as consistently as I should have this year so I gotta get back into that. I also haven’t touched my sewing machine in like 2 years. Somebody force me to make a quilt or something this year. I’m trying to buy a house and if that pans out and I have the space, I’m 100% buying a bunch of woodworking tools and seeing what I can teach myself. Overall just hoping I can find time for other skills/hobbies this year.
Peace out guys. Hopefully Covid’s contained soon (lmao no chance in the US amirite?) and we all have a good 2021. Happy New Year! ☮️
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awannabepaleoartist · 6 years
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The Dinovember Powerball*
*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.
Happy Dinovember!
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dinovember · 7 years
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Set Design, and "They're in the Walls!"
Making a Picture Book On Location — Part 3
After five years of Dinovember, one photo book, and two children’s picture books, we’ve taken hundreds of pictures of plastic dinosaurs. If dinosaur photography were a legitimate discipline, we’d be the experts.
There are a few ideas we’ve come up with that we’ve never had the chance to photograph but continue to stick with us months, even years later. One idea in particular just wouldn’t let go. 
We wanted to shoot the dinosaurs in a ventilation shaft.
Maybe in a cross-section of wall, or a looking down from above—the details didn’t matter. It became my white whale. Too intricate (and expensive) to shoot for Dinovember, too far outside the simple narrative of What the Dinosaurs Did Last Night, the idea languished in the ‘someday’ file for more than two years.
This is Why God Made Editors
During a call with our publishing team, our editor Mary-Kate mentioned that she wanted to know how the dinosaurs were sneaking from room to room without staff or students noticing.
Susan and I looked at each other and smiled. The time had finally come.
“We have just the thing.”
We sketched a quick storyboard and sent it over. Mary-Kate loved it, we loved it—it was going in the book.
Now we just had to figure out how to pull it off.
Duct Tales
The size duct we needed wasn’t available at the normal hardware stores. The tallest dinosaur, Rex, is about 10", so the duct would have to be at least a foot tall. That meant we had to find a commercial supplier.
We’ve remodeled the kitchen since this was taken and looking back at this photo I want to die a little.
We ended up with a 12"x24" duct, about 6' in length, with an elbow curve for depth. It took up the entire kitchen. 
It became clear early on that we wouldn’t be able to achieve the cross section effect we originally envisioned, but there was a happy holdover— bright pink insulation gave the set a pop of color.
To light the inside of the duct, we cut fan blades out of a piece of cardboard to use as a flag for that classic Die Hard look. A soft light at the front opening highlighted the dinosaurs and their props. 
“We’ll fix it in post.”
We’ve got a rule of thumb we try to stick to when we’re making these books. Over and over again, all through the process, we ask ourselves, “If we were illustrating this scene, is this how we’d draw it?”
Traditional illustrators have much more control over the details of their art; colors, proportions, scenery, light. We can’t even change our dinosaurs’ facial expressions! We only have what we can physically create in time and space.
Sometimes, this means relying on post-production. In the ventilation shaft scene, the metal was highly reflective. The colorful dinosaurs cast red, purple, and green across the walls and ceiling. It distracted from the action of the scene. The silver also came out looking very washed out, especially next to the pink insulation. It was so…utilitarian. So unillustrated.
We erased the reflections (leaving a few that we felt helped keep the set feeling real) and bumped the blues. We also enhanced some of the shadows and messed with a few other things. It ended up being one of our most time-consuming spreads, but we were too thrilled with the results to care.
It’s a great feeling, after all these years, to take a picture that makes it all feel new again. We only hope the kids who read our book enjoy looking at this scene as much as we enjoyed making it. What the Dinosaurs Did At School is available anywhere books are sold.
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clintgdoodles · 6 years
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#dinovember I’ve been considering putting together a coloring book. Thoughts? #doodle #draw #drawing #sketch #art #artwork #artistsoninstagram #dinovember2018 #illustration #coloringbook #dinosaur #dino #teamcarnivore #carnivore https://ift.tt/2FxGOrw
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crazy-figures-coll · 6 years
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Cute Idea Interesting concept. The book is well done, but be aware that one of the dinosaurs tries to put a screw driver into an electrical socket. More for adults who would like a good laugh. For kids, go with What the Dinosaurs Did Last Night A Very Messy Adventure. Go to Amazon
Hard to read I bought this book for my 5 year old grandson and we were very excited to read about the dinosaurs adventures. However, the print is smaller that "the small print" in a contract! It was crazy! My daughter teased me about needing my glasses and so she took over the story telling - and she was having a hard time reading the super Small print, too. Needless to say, this book is on the shelf, unread. The next two dinosaur books by the same author were cute and the font was fine and we enjoyed them. Don't bother purchasing until they fix the print in book one. Go to Amazon
MAGIC! The excuse I used to buy this book was that it was for my grand-niece, but it was really for me. I love what this couple did for their children, and I love following them on Facebook during November, when we all get to share in the magic. It's a wonderful book, it's a genius idea, and the MOST wonderful thing about it is that now there are people ALL OVER THE WORLD who are doing it for their children, and sharing it with everyone. It brings back the magical joy of childhood to even us old geezers. Go to Amazon
Great book for preschool to early elementary age dino loving kids Very cute book for anyone who has a dinosaur loving kid. If your child has a collection of plastic dinosaurs, they will be able to relate to the antics of these adventurous dinos. My 3 year old likes to look at it more as a picture book than a reading book. Might be best for ages 4+, but a fun picture book to look at with younger kids and they can make up their own story to go with it. Go to Amazon
You'll laugh and laugh. Great for cheering yourself up after a bad day. This book is amazing! You need to spend some time with it and study the pictures to really appreciate all the nuances and detail. This is definitely a book for grown-ups--not because of content but more for the subtle humor. I bought a copy for my 74 year old father and he was delighted. Go to Amazon
I used my best friends 19 month old son as an excuse to ... Fact: I used my best friends 19 month old son as an excuse to buy this book :) I love the creators, they have such an imagination and bring it to life with this book and their website. Love seeing people think outside the box and get back to being creative. Plus....dinosaurs. Go to Amazon
Excellent book, not just for children! I bought four copies...this book is brilliantly designed...my friends kids loved them as did they. Go to Amazon
Creative, colorful, imaginative! I gave this book to my granddaughter as a gift. She loves it! Perusing through the pictures of dinosaurs on mischievous adventures encourages the imagination to dream of what your dinosaurs may be up to while you sleep. I would highly recommend it! Go to Amazon
Hilarious! Loved it! Engaging and entertaining Fun , creative book for adults and kids Every page is great. More Dinovember fun, with this second book Awesome! CUTE!!!! It's too much for a young reader and the print ... Five Stars
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sargassos · 2 years
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Apatosaurus, Dinovember 2022
For three of the last four Dinovember, I’ve made coloring books for my niece. Last year was by far my best one, with the theme being the paleofauna of the Morrison Formation and Sundance Sea. I spent several months doing all the research I could, thumbnailing scenes, making brushes of the flora, and while it’s certainly not perfect, I’m pretty proud of it. I meant to continue the tradition this year with a Hell Creek Formation color book, but I recently got a new job and don’t have quite as much time to draw in a day.
Tl;dr, it’s officially Dinovember and I’m completely unprepared.
So I’m just gonna try coloring some more of the pages from last years book, as I find snips of time. This one was already completed, as it acts as the cover for the printed book, but I don’t think I ever shared the full piece. But it is by far one of my favorite pages from the project. Happy Dinovember, 2022!
Also, if you or someone you know likes dinosaurs and coloring books, you can find this book for digital download! It’s got 32 scenes total, depicting dinosaurs, marine and flying reptiles, and other jurassic fauna. Check it out here!
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humanoid-lovers · 7 years
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Hard to read I bought this book for my 5 year old grandson and we were very excited to read about the dinosaurs adventures. However, the print is smaller that "the small print" in a contract! It was crazy! My daughter teased me about needing my glasses and so she took over the story telling - and she was having a hard time reading the super Small print, too. Needless to say, this book is on the shelf, unread. The next two dinosaur books by the same author were cute and the font was fine and we enjoyed them. Don't bother purchasing until they fix the print in book one. Go to Amazon
Five Stars Who doesn't love dinosaurs?? This is a wonderful book that can be enjoyed by young and old! Go to Amazon
Creative, colorful, imaginative! I gave this book to my granddaughter as a gift. She loves it! Perusing through the pictures of dinosaurs on mischievous adventures encourages the imagination to dream of what your dinosaurs may be up to while you sleep. I would highly recommend it! Go to Amazon
Five Stars Fun companion story. Go to Amazon
CUTE!!!! g son loved it, therefore so do I ! Go to Amazon
loved it. Highly recommended and adults will find it ... I gave this book out as a gift this Christmas and everyone that received it, children between two and six, loved it. Highly recommended and adults will find it just as funny. Go to Amazon
Excellent book, not just for children! I bought four copies...this book is brilliantly designed...my friends kids loved them as did they. Go to Amazon
You'll laugh and laugh. Great for cheering yourself up after a bad day. This book is amazing! You need to spend some time with it and study the pictures to really appreciate all the nuances and detail. This is definitely a book for grown-ups--not because of content but more for the subtle humor. I bought a copy for my 74 year old father and he was delighted. Go to Amazon
Every page is great. More Dinovember fun, with this second book Awesome! It's too much for a young reader and the print ... Five Stars A fun read to your children book I expected this to be short easy narratives. They were a little long and involved ...
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sargassos · 2 years
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Supersaurus, Dinovember 2022
Boldly banded supersaurus bulls browse and brandish blue tails by brown brooks.
Man, I don’t know, it’s early, and I’m just corny typing and coloring dinos.
Also, 🦖🦕🖌⬇️⬇️⬇️
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koi-the-kaprosuchus · 2 years
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Dinovember day 16: Triceratops!
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Couple things I made in art class a while back. The first is a whiteboard doodle because I had spare time (real name signature blotted out) and the second is a page from a book I made! We had to make like. These little booklets of whatever we wanted using multiple medias. My book was about comparisons between the old, vintage/pop culture depiction of dinosaurs, and their modern counterparts! The backgrounds were all in water color, the “old” versions in acrylic, the “modern” versions in color pencil/pen, and the letters in stamps! The covers used acrylic, hand carved stamps, and book corner protectors!
Unfortunately I completely forgot I made that book, which really sucks because a bunch of the pages could’ve been used for dinovembers that I didn’t have the motivation for! So, I’ll post em now, under a read more :)
Once again, my name blotted out. I was gonna do a title and my name in letter stamps, but I ran out of time and had to go without my title and my name in crappy pen, which thankfully you can’t see
Once again, my name blotted out. I was gonna do a title and my name in letter stamps, but I ran out of time and had to go without my title and my name in crappy pen, which thankfully you can’t see
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Dinovember day 13: tyrannosaurus!
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Dinovember day 14: parasaurolophus! I actually did make a dinovember post for para, but sadly it must’ve been blocked from view by the warning tags I put on it (b*dy h*rror) or something, because it was never found
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As you can see, I’m not good at painting in crunched time and at small scale lol. I love my drawing for para, but I hate how static the pose feels and how bad the patterns are. I just couldn’t think of anything for it!
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sargassos · 3 years
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Dinovember, day 12! A pair of stokesosaurus bickering over a parviraptor 🐍 Tiny snek drumsticks, tastes like chicken?
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!
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sargassos · 3 years
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Day 14 of Dinovember; a group of Hesperosaurus enjoy a dip and a drink in the shallows.
I’m not sure why, but this is one of my favorites so far ❤️ Maybe cause it’s more simple that most of the others. It does have a lot of white space in the foreground, but I think that’s ok here.
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!
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sargassos · 2 years
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Yesterday was crazy busy, too busy to focus on drawing. So I colored instead! It took a little less focus and was a little more relaxing 😌
This was one of my Dinovember pages. He is smol and has flashy arm fluffs 🪶 Based on sunbitterns
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