Triassic to early Jurassic

A bunch of dino drawings, not much to say about that. I started with the massospondylus in the middle and it ended up being a page with equally earlier ones. It's quite interesting (to me I suppose) to note that they have a fairly basic body plan this early on. No big crests and horns and stuff.

Clockwise from left:

Heterodontosaurus: A sort of ugly warthog-style one with weird tusks.

Liliensternus: I think some precursor to the dilophosaurus from Jurassic Park. Seems to have a similar double head crest like him.

Eoraptor: Not like an actual velociraptor style raptor, those guys won't turn up until the Cretaceous. They've named a lot of different things 'raptor'.

Coelophysis: A poster dino for the Triassic period. They've been found with their own young inside fossilized inside their stomachs...times must've got lean.

Scelidosaurus: A sort of dino pig-sheep thing. The palaeontologist from the stegosaurus lecture I went to said that stegosaurus probably evolved from this one.

Lesothosaurus: A sort of dino deer. I've thought for a while that most dinosaurs weren't all that pretty to look at, all spikes and scales. Maybe with some strange whisker/feathers as well.

Massospondylus: The one in the middle. A precursor to the big long-necked sauropods of the Jurassic. They didn't have the big elephant-like legs and long claws on their front feet.

Beyond the Surface

Here's a non-Christmassy flyer for the same theatre company I've worked for before (think it's been nearly 5 years now). It's for a production educating teens about online privacy and stuff like that. They wanted a lot of characters for it, took ages to do so many. I originally had someone based on Moira Stewart on the back, they wanted Davina McCall...can't say I'm totally pleased with it, but it took ages what with changes and stuff. Thought it should go here just because.

"I'm kind of a big deal!"

A bit of drawing here. It's been a while since a film got me interested in doing something for it. Fanart isn't someone being as 'creative' as they could, but it does have this irresistible pull. I didn't see Ant Man at the cinema, but wish I had. I absolutely loved it, best Marvel film for a while. I quite liked that it was a (no pun intended) small scale, no blasted American town with an army of cookie cutter villains. My lovely lady did the painting and the colouring.

Frasersaurus

It's been suggested to me a few times about doing personalized dinos. I only really sell my stuff at MCM Comic Con in London and they're all done in Adobe Illustrator. Kinda difficult to do them to order. Someone at work wanted this for his son. Quite a while since I've done something on canvas. Would rather have had more time to do it, stuff like this always surfaces around Christmas..all at the same time!
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Earlier this year my lovely lady bought us tickets to a lecture at the Natural History Museum called Secrets of the Stegosaur. Very informative and I got to hold casts of the bones of the new Stegosaur skeleton they have in there. Absolutely fantastic!