Images for Dinopedia, # 3 (Patreon)

More completed images for Dinopedia. It's fun putting these together, but it's slow work. Anyway, here's the latest. Yes, I've done a new Spinosaurus - and to avoid all those issues about swimming behaviour and walking posture, I opted to put it in a terrestrial resting pose. I'm also pretty happy with this....

Yes, it's Tyrannosaurus rex, specifically based on 'Sue'. Illustrating things this way is new for me. Ordinarily I produce fully finished pieces on paper. This time - ostensibly to save time (though I'm not sure that that's working...) - I've only done quick outlines with pencil; everything else is done in Photoshop. I also wanted a black and white look mostly dependent on the same level of grey across the better part of each illustration.

I've only done two non-stegosaurian thyreophorans so far, my god are they a pain. Here's a polacanthid....

And here's a Scelidosaurus, based quite meticulously on what's described and illustrated in David Norman's several recent papers. It looks quite different from what I've imagined (and what's been reconstructed before by other workers)....

Ok, that's that for now. More very soon -- I'm killing myself with this damn project.