Dinosaur Zodiac - Cancer

#10oclockart entry - Conchoraptor with a crab. 

Taking a little break from Geminiraptor and getting a jump on Cancer. I'm thinking "budgie-come-seabird" in purples, yellowish-greens, and blues on this one.

Dinosaur Zodiac Project - Gemini

#10oclockart PM edition (7 hours early) - Geminiraptor. I already pretty much knew what I wanted to do with this one, so I started the layout and general masses of color.

Dinosaur Zodiac Color Sketches

#10oclockart PM edition. First post in awhile - I suffer from "AADD," or "artistic attention deficit disorder." I've decided to start a new project in the middle of all my others involving theropods and the signs of the Zodiac. Here are some preliminary color sketches:

Starting from top left - Aries (represented by Achillobator); Taurus (with Carnotaurus); Gemini (Geminiraptor); Cancer (Conchoraptors and crab); Leo (Tyrannosaurus rex); Virgo (Alectrosaurus or "unmarried lizard"); Libra (Gorgosaurus libratus); Scorpio (Skorpiovenator); Sagittarius (Sinovenator); Capricorn (Ceratosaurus); Aquarius (Pelecanimimus); Pisces (Ichthyovenator).

Double Trouble

#10oclockart - Detail of a larger piece I am working on - a pair of Troodon fighting over a snail.

Corvidesque Troodon Sketch

Late #10oclockart entry - a troodon with corvid-like feathers showing something off screen who's boss. Caw.

Troodon Train

#10oclockart pm edition - Troodons with ginger and mushrooms. Inspired by M.P. Verneuil's L'Animal dans la décoration.

Ginger Sketch

#10oclockart for tonight - Ginger (Zingiber officinale) leaf and flower studies.

Hourly Comic Day #1

Scott quoted The Merchant of Venice at me - "Tell me where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?" My mind went here.

Late-Night Mesozoic Plants

#10oclockart tonight consists of Zamia furfuracea (in purple) sketches from a live specimen and Zingiber officinale from photographs (in green).

A Pachyrhinosaurus for Scott Elyard - Updated

#10oclockart Updated drawing progress:

#10oclockart sketch for someone very special - thank you for all your love and encouragement, Scott Elyard. Look for a colored version here soon.

Thalattosaur Sketches

Been a hectic and busy few months - with the mid-winter move (in the middle of a huge blizzard I might add) to Homer, AK and getting settled into our new place, as well as the back to back art shows, and getting picked for the ScienceOnline 2012 art competition, I finally have the time and room to do some new artwork.

This is just for fun right now - a head study and color rough of Thalattosaurus, based on Merriam's 1905 drawings of the holotype skull from his book "The Thalattosauria."

Trent Reznor Portrait

Trying to caricature #trent_reznor feels like nailing Jello to a tree. #10oclockart

Troodon & Gingko

WIP for an upcoming art show with @coherent_light - #10oclockart

Ghrendali Color Sketch

PM entry for #10oclockart - a Ghrendali warrior, looking fierce.

Pachyrhinosaurus sketch

Sketches of a Papo Pachyrhinosaurus toy for #10oclockart. Now with more "derp."

Troodon sketch

Today's #10oclockart submission - a non-naked troodontid. Who says feathers look stupid on dinosaurs?

Late entry for #10oclockart - a pissed-off raven, which is what I have been the past few days.

Parasaurolophus Skull Study

Drawn from a model skull owned by Zachary Miller during a sketching jam at his house.

Cintiqing it!

As you may or may not know, I was working as a live-in caretaker for a friend who had hip replacement surgery for the past couple of months, and as payment, received a brand new Cintiq tablet.

Expect more soon!

Of Paintings and Other Things

Been working on art for a project at The Dragon's Tales blog called "The XenoPermian," an imagined geological epoch that operates under the assumption the Siberian Traps never had their million-year-long eruption, and as a result, the Permian extinction never happened.

During the Permian era, our planet was dominated by our long-gone ancestors, the reptile-like protomammals - Therapsida. And most dominant among those was undoubtedly the dicynodonts, by force of sheer numbers. As a result, many (but by no means all) of the critters that populate this strange non-time can draw their lineage from these humble beginnings.

Enter the walrodont.


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