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A really quick portrait of Microraptor

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Pigeon

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Unenlagia fishing

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A small sketch of Dakotaraptor sniffing a magnolia

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Quick Compsognathus Sketch

I made this quick sketch of Compsognathus a while back. It was mostly made from memory, so it might have a few inaccuracies regarding proportions.

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Kind of late, but I have not posted anything in quite some time. Here are some Christmas themed Mesozoic reptiles.

I made Protoceratops, Brachiosaurus, and Nanuqsaurus last Christmas, and I made Pteranodon this Christmas. I digitally sculpted, 3D printed, and painted them (and I made a little hat for the Pteranodon as well as a feathery coat for Nanuqsaursu).

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A quick integument study with Velociraptor.

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Coelophysis

I started working on this about a year ago but stopped. I recently started working on it again. It's a bit sloppy, but I think it turned out okay. I wanted to depict Coelophysis as a curious animal. Here an individual investigates a fallen cone.

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Quick graphite sketch Archaeopteryx.

American quarter for the scale of the sketch (if you didn't know, Archaeopteryx was significantly larger).

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A sketch of a subadult Aquilops.  Version with shadow

Based on cranial reconstruction from Andrew A. Farke, W. Desmond Maxwell, Richard L. Cifelli, Mathew J. Wedel

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Trying another attempt at an alvarezsaur head.

Referance

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A life restoration of Asteriornis I made for Wikipedia.

File on Wikimedia

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Restoration of Papiliovenator neimengguensis for Wikipedia.

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I'm a bit late, but here's a Mononykus. I drew it before I watched Prehistoric Planet's "Deserts". I knew Mononykus would star in it and I decided to do a really quick sketch. I liked the owl-like facial feathers shown in the series because some extant dinosaurs that rely on sound to find food, notably owls, have dish-like feather patterns to aid in hearing. We know from fossil evidence that alvarezsaurs like Mononykus had ears well adapted to hearing, and in some ways similar to those of the the barn owl (perhaps the most dish-faced bird of all). This is certainly not the only way to reconstruct this animal and I hope I am not giving into a new paleoart meme, but I think this is a neat way to restore this animal that has some plausibility behind it.

Again, this was just a quick sketch and not necessarily intended to be a serious piece of paleoart. Most of this animal was drawn from memory. I apologize for the quality of this sketch. I only spent about 20 or 30 minutes on it and some of the proportions are a bit wacky.

It has been quite a while since I have posted here. I plan to post more soon. I have had a lot to do in the past few months and I have had a hard time fitting in paleoart, but I should be getting more time here soon.

One last note. Alvarezsaurs are rad.

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A quick piece I did after Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong's update video on Dilophosaurus.

The crests are based largely on those of helmeted guineafowl. The blue around the eyes is somewhat common among living dinosaurs with head ornamentation. I kept the dewlap small because a large dewlap could interfere with hunting (since it seemed to use it head to grab at prey). The protofeathers only cover the upper regions because of size, though I'm not sure how Dilophosaurus's size would have affected its thermoregulatory and insulative needs. Just to avoid any confusion I will point out that the protofeathers are not much more than filaments and what looks like an advanced feather shape is just the clumping that happens to hair (see this, this, this and this picture).

Brian Engh's (dontmesswithdinosaurs.com) cranial reconstruction used as a reference.

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Favorite dinosaur??

That's hard to say. I'm not sure that I could say any one dinosaur is my favorite, but there are definitely some that I really like. I really like dromaeosaurs (and paravian in general). Out of dromaeosaurids my favorites would probably be Microraptor and Velociraptor. I know the latter seems a bit cliché, but I really like the size of Velociraptor (it was a lot bigger than small dromaeosaurs like Microraptor and a whole lot smaller than larger dromaeosaurs like Utahraptor or even Deinonychus, think medium sized dog). I also like how well understood Velociraptor is for a larger animal. Yes, we don't have any specimens like what we have for Microraptorians, but we do have a fully articulated skeleton. I also just love the way Velociraptor looks. I love the long, slightly concave snout and long, slender body. As for why I like Microraptor. It's just an awesome animal all over and it's amazing that we know so much about it.

Hope that answered your question.

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I made a new profile picture. It's a cute little Velociraptor mongoliensis based on this amazing Sinosauropteryx emoji.