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I FINALLY FINISHED IT. This thing is 22"x30" (biggest paper I've ever worked on... also most expensive... $8 a sheet, argh!). I did a light watercolor base and then drew everything with Prismacolor colored pencils over it.

Basically, it depicts cowboys in a cretaceous environment. It's intentionally full of unlikelihoods (such as that little fence being enough to contain dinosaurs) and outrageous colors (hey, I can color them whatever I want, nobody knows what color dinosaurs were).

The saddled and bridled ones are tyrannosauruses, the horses of the scene. I based their colors off of the Longiserpa . Who wouldn't love to ride a tamed tyrannosaurus?

The green and yellow ones are triceratops, the cattle of the scene. The one in front that's being branded is a calf, otherwise it would be much bigger.

The purple and red raptors are the velociraptors, the herding dogs of the scene. They're even wearing collars. I was debating between drawing them with the feather layout seen here, and nearly covering them with feathers. But I tried drawing both on another piece of paper and this way looked much better.

The orange and purple flying ones are pteranodons. The big one between them is a quetzalcoatlus.

The inspiration for this drawing... was prettymuch a question of what kind of fun fantasies might kids have? Riding a t-rex seemed like a good one to draw, and it went on from there. It's cowboys gone way back in time.

The photo is pretty blurry. Maybe someday I'll take a better picture and re-upload this so you can see the details better.

I'm glad it's done. I've been working really hard to get it done in time for the student art gallery.

Description
I FINALLY FINISHED IT. This thing is 22"x30" (biggest paper I've ever worked on... also most expensive... $8 a sheet, argh!). I did a light watercolor base and then drew everything with Prismacolor colored pencils over it.

Basically, it depicts cowboys in a cretaceous environment. It's intentionally full of unlikelihoods (such as that little fence being enough to contain dinosaurs) and outrageous colors (hey, I can color them whatever I want, nobody knows what color dinosaurs were).

The saddled and bridled ones are tyrannosauruses, the horses of the scene. I based their colors off of the Longiserpa . Who wouldn't love to ride a tamed tyrannosaurus?

The green and yellow ones are triceratops, the cattle of the scene. The one in front that's being branded is a calf, otherwise it would be much bigger.

The purple and red raptors are the velociraptors, the herding dogs of the scene. They're even wearing collars. I was debating between drawing them with the feather layout seen here, and nearly covering them with feathers. But I tried drawing both on another piece of paper and this way looked much better.

The orange and purple flying ones are pteranodons. The big one between them is a quetzalcoatlus.

The inspiration for this drawing... was prettymuch a question of what kind of fun fantasies might kids have? Riding a t-rex seemed like a good one to draw, and it went on from there. It's cowboys gone way back in time.

The photo is pretty blurry. Maybe someday I'll take a better picture and re-upload this so you can see the details better.

I'm glad it's done. I've been working really hard to get it done in time for the student art gallery.