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Since I skipped Inktober I decided to try out something I saw on someone else’s blog: “Dinovember.”
Good excuse to draw dinosaurs.Thirteenth is Tanystropheus. It’s a Triassic reptile (not a dinosaur or a plesiosaur) with a ridiculously long neck and tiny body. A lot of articles and paleoart have it in aquatic environments (since its fossils were found in semiaquatic areas) and that seems pretty reasonable. It seems like it would have had a hard time walking on land being so front-heavy...
Basically I think it’s just supposed to be one dino drawing a day, but I decided to do 10 skeletons and 10 with skin/muscles (referenced from google images) and then one speedpaint. Since I’m not intimately familiar with most dino anatomy the sketches were a huge help for the final piece. And it was interesting sorting through all sorts of outdated paleoart for the more modern interpretations.

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Since I skipped Inktober I decided to try out something I saw on someone else’s blog: “Dinovember.”
Good excuse to draw dinosaurs.Thirteenth is Tanystropheus. It’s a Triassic reptile (not a dinosaur or a plesiosaur) with a ridiculously long neck and tiny body. A lot of articles and paleoart have it in aquatic environments (since its fossils were found in semiaquatic areas) and that seems pretty reasonable. It seems like it would have had a hard time walking on land being so front-heavy...
Basically I think it’s just supposed to be one dino drawing a day, but I decided to do 10 skeletons and 10 with skin/muscles (referenced from google images) and then one speedpaint. Since I’m not intimately familiar with most dino anatomy the sketches were a huge help for the final piece. And it was interesting sorting through all sorts of outdated paleoart for the more modern interpretations.