Paleo Art and Natural Science Illustration

>>3092776
Relevant video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW7uyD0hfqg&list=PLaCDmykyjVw_B983AQ2iGuZOA3ZLJ8Sry

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>>3092776
You're looking at a foundation of paleontology, biology, specifically reptiles, and following the work of the top guys in the field, like Speilberg and Co. did for Jurassic Park, like Mark Crash McCreery. The good news is, there's a lot of artistic license, because so little remains of dinos except fossilized bone. You can follow the work of the top paleontologists to see what they think, but they don't even agree with each other a lot of the time.

>>3092776
t-rexs look a lot more like chickens these days eh

i wonder if they wouldn't be even more chickeny if people hadn't initially thought of them as lizards

>>3092791
That was both informative and amusing, thanks.
>>3092892
I'm pretty excited to get started - however, there is a cloud of uncertainty whenever I want to draw a dinosaur using only knowledge of the skeleton. I'll give a specific example - lately, I've been seeing t-rex (often in video games like Saurian) with a fleshy covering over the nasal "hole" (I knew the name of it but forgot) which vibrates when it roars. When did this happen? Why do I see it frequently now? Should I include it in my drawing? I assume it's something to do with changing the sound of the roar?

>>3092911
They have an entire series of those videos, they're pretty neat

>>3092911
We don't even know what vocalizations they actually had, I think it's just what the artists find cool.