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Published: 2009-06-28 00:56:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 10117; Favourites: 244; Downloads: 1227
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Here we see a very bold flock of pterodactyls butting in on three Allosaurus who are scavenging on a dead stegosaurus. Big mistake!Another of my only semi-successful late 1990's dinosaur illustrations. I remember being very happy with the drawing on this one but having very mixed feelings (mostly disappointment) with how the colors turned out. It ended up a lot more yellow than I had originally hoped. There is a little bit of everything in this one: pen and ink, acrylic paint, colored pencils, colored inks, probably some watercolor and I think even a few traces of magic marker. Which is not evidence of how "artsy" I am but rather how panicked I was - that I was losing control of the color scheme - and just trying everything I could think of to "save it".
I think I did this illustration in 1998 or maybe 1999? Anyway, it has been stored away ever since. So it had been a few years since I saw it last. It turned up while I was cleaning my closet the other day and I thought, "well this one isn't as bad as I remember it being." So I decided to post it.
I look forward to all the dino-know-it-alls who will soon leave comments to inform me that my science is all wrong AGAIN... because Allosaurus would never scavenge on a dead stegosaurus, or would never travel in a group of three, or would never be in a desert, or would never fight pterodactyls, or whatever. One of the funny things I've learned about dinosaur fans is that every single one of them (us?) knows more about dinosaurs than anybody else, and must correct everybody else. Haha.
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Around 1996 or so, I got really seriously interested in trying to take my childhood love of drawing dinosaurs and turn it into a job doing "paleoillustration". I managed to get some of my drawings into one small-circulation dinosaur magazine and a scattering of children's books but that was about it. By late 1999 I gave up, and just went back to my first love, monsters and horror. I found a pile of my old dino art while cleaning my closet the other day, and thought I'd post some of the better ones.
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love your work man, consider me a fan
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I very much appreciate the handling of the Allosaurus. Their scales and the color palette overall gives me the general impression of the Age of Reptiles comics and that sort of overall understanding of dinosaurs from the late 80's. It still somehow feels fairly modern.
Good work.
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Yeah, I've discovered that about paleo fans, too. Even when a species is only known from the upper half of the skull.
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can i use this to draw after for a frind i creddit you ofc 
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Nice! this is in a Book on how to draw dinosaurs. its the picture at the first page of the Pterosaur chaptrt
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Yep. I haven't looked at it in a long time, but my buddy Steve was the author of a How to Draw Dinosaurs book. I think he used this illustration it in there. That was years ago.
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Send him Thanks if you can.
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He's on Deviant Art - you can thank him yourself! stvnhthr.deviantart.com
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Cool piece! I don't generally point out everything wrong in a pic unless it's an egregious error...no bad errors here and it's exciting and dramatic. I actually like your color scheme, so quit bitchin'!
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Thank you for commenting! Glad you like it and thanks for your kind words!
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Yer welcome! If you want to try another dino pic, come to my page and read my challenge for paleoartists. U R invited!
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I like this! you drew it all by yourself?
The colours are really awesome, and the aspects are all so well done! especially the pterodactyl having it's one wing torn of, it looks really cool ^^
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No, I had my mom help me. HAHA. Of COURSE I drew it all by myself! Thanks for your very kind words!
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Yeah, cause your mom definitely helped you! I could see the mom-ish-ness in this picture! xD Np, It was definitely worth the time^^
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My humor is really awkward xD Sorry 'bout that.
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Mine too! No need to apologize! haha.
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COOL!!!!!!! I've been a dinosaur freak since grade school, and as far as I'm concerned you can draw dinos in any scenario you like because a)your drawing is brilliant and b)no one actually KNOWS what they did! They lived 100 million YEARS ago! So, more power to you!
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My pleasure! Speaking of Land Of The Lost, have you ever drawn any Sleestaks? My favorite TV creatures when I was a kid!
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I love Sleestaks. No plans to draw a Land of the Lost pic any time soon though. Got too many other ideas and too little time to execute them all, as it is!
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That's life! Too bad, because I can see a Baugh-atyle Sleestak in my head quite clearly, and it's awesome!! How was your ?
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I could show you a list of great movies I would LOOOVE to do a tribute drawing of... unfortunately paying gigs must come first, and none of them require me to draw any of those things right now. Oh and Christmas was small but nice this year.
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Good fortune attend you in 2010!
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Whoa. Like, totally whoa...
And no, I'm not correcting you at all. Everything you portrayed is perfectly plausible (and personally, I like the idea of scavenging pterosaurs).
A fantastic piece!
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I happen to think you did a really good job with everything in this. I like to coloring, and the stances of the dinosaurs. Good job.
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Allosaurus was just like any predator today-they'd take a free meal and fight off anything else that might try to steal it any day.
You've done a fine job!
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i know that from a book, by steve miller. very nice
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Actually the new thing that they're bitching about is the hands. The palms have to be facing each other or your work of art is shit and you're a creationist and Hitler.
I really like the solid white eyes. They're quite spooky.
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Haha, you are right. I have also read that, about the hands, in years since my dinosaur craze slowed to a halt. The white eyes I based on the white nictitating membranes (second eyelids) that cover the eyes of sharks when they attack prey. Alligators have those too, but gators' second eyelids are transparent, and aren't for protection during fighting as much as to aid their vision when swimming underwater.
And as a final note let me say I have no problem with the creationists whatsoever. But I do find it very amusing whenever atheists refer to anyone who disagrees with them about anything as Hitler. Those folks love to demand "tolerance for alternative modes of thought" - just as long as you don't count the alternate opinion that God might exist and might have had something to do with anything. Then they are not so tolerant anymore. Haha.
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I've used the nictitating membranes to give a few of my creatures solid white/black eyes a few times. The image of this huge dinosaur coming at you with those dead, solid eyes is to much for me to resist.
And yeah, most atheists I know do love their strawmen and double standards. It's the same kind of bullshit I hear from Fundamentalists and Religious nuts. Just sung to a different tune.
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I once heard an interesting theory from a Christian radio guy, who said, "Generally speaking, most Atheists and arch left wing liberals hate the concept of the Christian God, but they have a tendency to make liberal politics their god, which is why they are so rabid about various political issues. They are essentially defending their god."
I thought he made a pretty solid point there.
...Best book I ever read on this topic was "Crazies to the Left of Me, Whimps to the Right" by Bernard Goldberg. I highly recommend it.
And for the record I am a religious guy but I try not to be a nut about it. Haha.
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I couldn't resist a Stealer's Wheel reference! I just couldn't!
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MORE dinosaurs!? Oh Bryan Baugh, you know what I like!
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