Miragaia v.3

Cooler colors for Miragaia to contrast with the firey colors of Brachytrachelopan. I'm not really sure about this one, but I do like the color scheme. I hope you all liked this rousing round of live-blogging! I'll probably tweak ALL of theme images for the actual Art Evolved show which is coming up in November. And as always, your comments are welcome and appreciated.

Next-Day Impressions: Oh my god, did I draw this? Was I DRUNK? This is the worst stegosaur I've ever drawn. It's like I squatted over a bed of newspapers and "produced" this awful picture. Now, I still like the colors, but geezus the anatomy is horrible. The tail is longer than the body, the body itself looks nothing like a stegosaur, and YE GODS what's up with the skull? Obviously, I'll be redoing Miragaia. I urge you all to look away.

Miragaia v.1

Well, just to let you know, I'm NOT happy with this, but it's the best picture I came up with. I did a lot of crumpling up while sketching Miragaia. Part of this is because I'm not that great at drawing stegosaurs, but another part is that Miragaia has a lot of missing parts. The tail here, for example, is basically fiction. Hopefully it will improve with the inks...stay tuned!

Brachytrachelopan v.3

Look, it's a LAVA BEAST. I wanted to do something flashy for this sauropod. It came out a little closer to something you'd see from Luis Rey, which I'm not that happy about, but I do like the color scheme. Notice that I drew the neck up, which is not a position you normally see for this sauropod. This is probably about as high as it could curl its neck, given the forward-sloping neural spines on the cervicals that would have severely limited dorsal flexion.

Next up: Miragaia! Gotta start from scratch, so it might be a little while...

Spinophorosaurus v.4

Aaaand here's the final Spinophorosaurus. I went for a sort of African color scheme, because he's from Niger and all. This was a case where I didn't initially like the colors as I was doing them,but I think they come together pretty well in the end. Now I'm going to take a short break while I make some lunch and ink Brachytrachelopan.

Spinophorosaurus v.3

There's the detail work. By the way, if any of you are wondering why I'm not doing this shit on Photoshop, it's because I took Scott's challenge and doing all these pieces with ink alone.

Well, and colored pencils. Because I don't have proper color inking pens.

Live-bloggers do it in real-time

Hey, folks! I totally got sidetracked by car repairs yesterday, but if ya'll tune in right now, you'll be able to watch as I slave away at three pieces for the upcoming sauropod-themed Art Evolve show. My focus: the "stegosauropods," those sauropods (and stegosaurs) that mimic each other in some ways. Behold, the sketches for the first two pieces:


This, of course, is Spinophorosaurus.


And here is Brachytrachelopan. I haven't started the third beastie yet.

Let's work on Spinophorosaurus first...