Last Days of the Dinosaurs - Edmontosaurus (Patreon)

I was very excited to draw a hadrosaur for Riley Black's new book, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs! Hadrosaurs are my favorite kind of dinosaur, and are often overlooked as "boring" dinosaurs. Edmontosaurus is one of the last hadrosaurs, and one of the biggest!

In the book, one has a mite infestation and is scratching itself, so Riley wanted an illustration of that! I took inspiration from other large herbivores like cows to see how maybe something as large and probably fairly inflexible as Edmontosaurus would go about scratching a shoulder. I'm very glad there are other paleoartists in the world that specialize in figuring out the muscles of these creatures, because that helped out a LOT.

My favorite part is the little front-leg hooves. That's a pretty new discovery for late-Cretaceous hadrosaurs! They had hooves! Dinosaurs are so cool.