Courtship In The Sky

Courtship in the sky

ALRIGHT EVERYONE ITS HITLIST TIME

we head out for the city thurs, and I'll be at the museum sat & sun I think? So here's some of my "targets" to draw:

-Black beauty (T. rex) and the Dinosaur Hall Tyrannosaurus

-Borealopelta

-Oryctodromeus (if they have one, this was a request, I'll try my best to look for it :)

-The allo and campto in the picture

-Any ornithomimid

-Any ceratopsian

Should I try drawing one of the mammals there? I've never actually tried reconstructing one before (booooo me)

If anyone wants pings for when I post the art from the mounts, let me know in the comments :D

HYPEE HYPE I LOVE DRUMHELLER

hehehe going to the Royal Tyrell Museum again in August, and I am boiling over with an idea

So I've been to the Royal Tyrell 3 times already before this, it is such an amazing museum :,) but this time I want to work on some paleoart if I can

So the plan is to just go around and reconstruct the dinosaurs as they are mounted in the museum, and i think that will be really fun as I usually go off of 2D skeletal drawings as a reference for accuracy, so this’ll be like drawing my dinosaur models… just, skinned and de-meat-ifyed (?)

If anyone a specific Canadian dinosaur or maybe Montana-area ones as well (I think Tyrell has a few) let me know and I can keep an eye out for them :) and hopefully sneak in a little doodle!

*cronch*

Paleoart Sketching at the Royal Tyrell Museum

I promise I’ll get better photos eventually, but here’s a quick dump from my trip to drumheller! Visited the museum for some amount of hours over two days so I could sketch the mounts, all of these are done on watercolour paper so hopefully when I next post about them, they’ll be painted up and pretty :)

What museum do you guys recommend to go to next? (At least, in North America)

Hopefully going back for visit number 6 next year! (I’m so greedy, I need to go back again and again)

Young Gorgosaurus libratus, death pose.

more under cut

Dromaeosaurus albertensis I believe, I gave it some strange butt plumage there but oh well

Black beauty (Tyrannosaurus rex) had a nice little chat with a photographer while drawing this one, we were both struggling to perform our arts with the massive crowd ;-; luckily day two was a lot less busy, I went first thing in the morning rather then midday.

Ornithomimus brevitertius, as to which the species Google refused to elaborate whether it’s synonymous with a different dinosaur species or genus so to this day I am unsure if it is a valid radon :,D regardless, this was probably my favourite sketch, working on painting it rn

I don’t remember the tag on this one, gonna guess it was a type of corythosaurus?

I’ll do some extra photo dumping from the museum later :)

DAY 3 Smaller Lobolytoceras siemensi male fails to woo an uninterested much larger female. Many ammonites exhibit sexual dimorphism where often the Males (Microconch) are smaller than females (Macroconch)

What makes a fantasy book good to you?

Yep. I'm trying to get myself into writing a book again. Hopefully I'll actually pull through and write something fuller this time, even if I don't make it to the end.

But I've been thinking. I like to write, and I've always considered myself a good writer-- until lately, when I've actually started to notice some of my flaws. (I'll probably get into that another time, if I continue to make writing posts). And I want to improve-- so I'm asking for advice, to anyone who is a fan of fantasy books, a writer of books, or even a reader of any genre.

What makes a fantasy book enjoyable? What is something you want to see in the genre? What ruins a book? And what makes you want to pick the book up in the first place?

Sorry, that's a few extra questions than what I started with-- feel free to answer one, two, all, skip over and do none, or just comment some general advice :) I'll be happy with any kind of help or support

Last big artfight attack for this year. This one is more complex because I'm counting it as my monthly illustration.

For Dulcynea on artfight