At the end of 2008 I decided to leave the two illustration agencies I was signed up to. I wanted a change of pace & I knew the next artwork I created needed to be a career milestone. Enter Leviathan...
Nearly done with 2008. Last few posts before there is a gear change and a milestone in my career. For today, a stylistic look at the development of Iguanodon, which was created for a Discoverology book.
I have a question for vertebrate-palaeo-people: what do we think sauropods ate? What're the most recent thoughts/ studies on this? #paleontology#dinosaurs#paleoart#sauropods
This is the last day of illustrations from the 2008 book A TIME TRAVELLER'S FIELD NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS OF DINOSAURS (by Top That!). Here is Hypacrosaurus.
Visiting the museum of natural history makes me wish public parks had T-rex or Allosaurus, or some other similar dinosaur skeletons on permanent display so kids and just people in general can study them casually and frequently. I know it would be a maintenance nightmare, but it would be so cool.
Installation of our new 'Discovering Dinosaurs' gallery has begun, beginning with wall graphics that hint at what dinosaur specimens will be installed later. And we're constructing a base below our T. rex skeleton.
A 2008 piece depicting Corosaurus. The only purpose for this was playing around in Photoshop and learning how to create painting and photo composite art.
Here's a painting (acrylic on card) of a Carboniferous coal forest, for a publisher back in 2008. Apart from the Hibbertopterus, which is wrong in a variety of ways, I think it still works okay.
In 2008 I painted (acrylic on card) a few dinosaur portraits for the cover of DINOSAUR HUNTER magazine, by Hachette. This was peak "awesomebro" for me and it began the process of an important stylistic change, but more about that another day. This is a monster-like Pachyrhinosaurus.
In 2008 I painted (acrylic on card) a few dinosaur portraits for the cover of DINOSAUR HUNTER magazine, by Hachette. This was peak "awesomebro" for me and it began the process of an important stylistic change, but more about that another day. This is a monster-like Microraptor.
In 2008 I painted (acrylic on card) a few dinosaur portraits for the cover of DINOSAUR HUNTER magazine, by Hachette. This was peak "awesomebro" for me and it began the process of an important stylistic change, but more about that another day. This is a monster-like Tyrannosaurus.
In 2008 I painted (acrylic on card) a few dinosaur portraits for the cover of DINOSAUR HUNTER magazine, by Hachette. This was peak "awesomebro" for me and it began the process of an important stylistic change, but more about that another day. This is a monster-like Giganotosaurus.