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You may not know this about me but I am actually a GIGANTIC dinosaur nerd and it occurred to me recently that I have never bothered drawing any. I suppose that is somewhat due to the fact that it took me an embarrassingly long time to square with the reality that damn-near all my favorite species were not running around buckass nekkit without they pants on like in the original Jurassic Park movie but were, instead, big floofty murder chickens actually. This was a scandal my little teenage brain could not handle but eventually, I ended up speedrunning the stages of grief about it and nowadays, I've landed somewhere in the vicinity of "big floofty murder chickens are pretty neat, actually."
My favorite dinosaur of all time is the non-floofty spinosaurus but I'm probably not going to be drawing them any time soon because I value my life (IYKYK). If I had to pick a second favorite, I'd say it really depends on my mood but it's probably going to be something in the deinonychosauria family, likely a dromaeosaur. Utahraptor, velociraptor, deinonychus, microraptor. Carcharodontosaurus is also pretty feckin cool and I know allosaurus is such a basic bitch dinosaur but they were absolute fucking crackheads and I love them.
These designs are not meant to be any specific species; I was just kinda aiming for "general dromaeosaurid" except for the top-middle red stripey guy who is probably some kind of carcharodontosaurid, and the top right guy who is meant to be mononykus-like. "Fantastic but plausible" was the goal here. I feel like monsignor bluejayraptor might have ended up looking kinda cartoony and goofy but he's so cute I didn't want to change him. I love his doofy hench dipshits dorking around in the background. The top middle dromae was inspired by learning that there might have been arctic raptors that lived alongside Yutyrannus so extrafloofty! Top left was inspired by a bearded vulture. I know dinosaurs did not have widespread grass (I forget when grass took off, might have been after the volcano-asteroid spitroasting Earth took around 65My ago) but they did have ferns! And I think moss? So pretend all that grass-looking shit is ferns and moss. XD
Anyhow, thanks for coming to my dinosaur nerd Ted Talk. ♥
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You may not know this about me but I am actually a GIGANTIC dinosaur nerd and it occurred to me recently that I have never bothered drawing any. I suppose that is somewhat due to the fact that it took me an embarrassingly long time to square with the reality that damn-near all my favorite species were not running around buckass nekkit without they pants on like in the original Jurassic Park movie but were, instead, big floofty murder chickens actually. This was a scandal my little teenage brain could not handle but eventually, I ended up speedrunning the stages of grief about it and nowadays, I've landed somewhere in the vicinity of "big floofty murder chickens are pretty neat, actually."
My favorite dinosaur of all time is the non-floofty spinosaurus but I'm probably not going to be drawing them any time soon because I value my life (IYKYK). If I had to pick a second favorite, I'd say it really depends on my mood but it's probably going to be something in the deinonychosauria family, likely a dromaeosaur. Utahraptor, velociraptor, deinonychus, microraptor. Carcharodontosaurus is also pretty feckin cool and I know allosaurus is such a basic bitch dinosaur but they were absolute fucking crackheads and I love them.
These designs are not meant to be any specific species; I was just kinda aiming for "general dromaeosaurid" except for the top-middle red stripey guy who is probably some kind of carcharodontosaurid, and the top right guy who is meant to be mononykus-like. "Fantastic but plausible" was the goal here. I feel like monsignor bluejayraptor might have ended up looking kinda cartoony and goofy but he's so cute I didn't want to change him. I love his doofy hench dipshits dorking around in the background. The top middle dromae was inspired by learning that there might have been arctic raptors that lived alongside Yutyrannus so extrafloofty! Top left was inspired by a bearded vulture. I know dinosaurs did not have widespread grass (I forget when grass took off, might have been after the volcano-asteroid spitroasting Earth took around 65My ago) but they did have ferns! And I think moss? So pretend all that grass-looking shit is ferns and moss. XD
Anyhow, thanks for coming to my dinosaur nerd Ted Talk. ♥
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Drawing spinos is the best because if you wait a week you can draw it all over again completely differently and by the time you're done with that one it'll be inaccurate again *thumbs up, I'm not crying you're crying*
Yutyrannus are also sick, though utahraptor or dakotaraptor are probs my favorites
Yutyrannus are also sick, though utahraptor or dakotaraptor are probs my favorites
"Drawing spinos is the best because if you wait a week you can draw it all over again completely differently and by the time you're done with that one it'll be inaccurate again "
LMAO true.
"Yutyrannus are also sick, though utahraptor or dakotaraptor are probs my favorites "
Utahraptor was so cool. If you had to pin me down for a second favorite, it would be this guy. Absolute menaces.
LMAO true.
"Yutyrannus are also sick, though utahraptor or dakotaraptor are probs my favorites "
Utahraptor was so cool. If you had to pin me down for a second favorite, it would be this guy. Absolute menaces.
They are gorgeous. I mean just wonderful. Thanks for posting!
Y'know, when I was a kid and on Sunday the world was created in 4004 BC, on Monday my folks gave me a dinosaur book I loved. I always thought they looked like drawings of plucked chickens. Apparently that was exactly right!
Y'know, when I was a kid and on Sunday the world was created in 4004 BC, on Monday my folks gave me a dinosaur book I loved. I always thought they looked like drawings of plucked chickens. Apparently that was exactly right!
yep you can look at it in my gallery if you want or my twitter https://x.com/douglasdietric7 :D , it's very much a work in progress but hopefully things will pick up and im always adding more characters, soon ill be adding semi ferals into my story
I love these.
Dinosaurs are something I've always loved as well. I was actually kind of happy to find that they were probably feathered. Rather than a world covered in browns and greens, the thought they were probably covered in colorful feathers intrigues me. :)
And as always, your work is fantastic. Always love seeing your drawings.
Dinosaurs are something I've always loved as well. I was actually kind of happy to find that they were probably feathered. Rather than a world covered in browns and greens, the thought they were probably covered in colorful feathers intrigues me. :)
And as always, your work is fantastic. Always love seeing your drawings.
As a fellow paleonerd, I think these are lovely! I especially like the lying one in the top right corner. You should draw dinos more often! 💜
Also about the grass topic, as far as I know (and just researched), grass evolved in the cretaceous, and raptors wherekinda only present in that time period, so you're good with these.
Also about the grass topic, as far as I know (and just researched), grass evolved in the cretaceous, and raptors wherekinda only present in that time period, so you're good with these.
On the plus side, while it was determined dinosaurs were covered in feathers (at least some species), it's unknown what the colors of the feathers were. So that leaves it wide open to artist interpretation and imagination as to what they actually looked like.
Love the images. I live in Arizona - we have fun little feather raptors on the loose here - Roadrunners. Watch those things on the hunt and you want to hum the Jurassic Park theme.
The amazing thing is you wonder how long any material besides the fossilized bones was discarded by those doing the digs and later processing of dinosaur fossils. I got to listen to a speech some years ago by Robert T Bakker at the Museum of Northern Arizona. He was discussing how avian many of the dinosaurs were. Hollywood stuck to the 19th century notion that dinosaurs were lizards crawling on their belies in swamp muck for decades. Plumage makes sense for a lot of the dinosaurs, amazing thing is some of the recent finds from China have revealed what color the feathers were - traces remained in the rock. Heck there have even been small birds from that time found trapped in Amber and even small downy dinos that met the same fate. Now for some of the scaled dinosaurs - this is interesting. https://www.npr.org/2025/11/01/nx-s.....saur-discovery
Scales, feathers - all keratin, just like hair, fingernails and hooves.
The amazing thing is you wonder how long any material besides the fossilized bones was discarded by those doing the digs and later processing of dinosaur fossils. I got to listen to a speech some years ago by Robert T Bakker at the Museum of Northern Arizona. He was discussing how avian many of the dinosaurs were. Hollywood stuck to the 19th century notion that dinosaurs were lizards crawling on their belies in swamp muck for decades. Plumage makes sense for a lot of the dinosaurs, amazing thing is some of the recent finds from China have revealed what color the feathers were - traces remained in the rock. Heck there have even been small birds from that time found trapped in Amber and even small downy dinos that met the same fate. Now for some of the scaled dinosaurs - this is interesting. https://www.npr.org/2025/11/01/nx-s.....saur-discovery
Scales, feathers - all keratin, just like hair, fingernails and hooves.
Beautiful. ^_^ I'm still in denial so I've decided to live my life embracing that I like the JP demonic versions better than the feathery ones 'cause eventually all of us will die out, and old featherless dinos will be a forgotten relic, so I might as well enjoy it while I can.
But your feathery guys here are gorgeous. What program do you use to paint? The feather textures look very painterly. :)
But your feathery guys here are gorgeous. What program do you use to paint? The feather textures look very painterly. :)
I’m not sure what I can say other than I love your look of raptors there, a good mix of feathers and fantasy.
Though fun fact about raptors, you call them under chickens, yet that might be accurate. Most Raptors if I remember right where about the size of a little more than a house cat. The biggest one that’s even close to what we think of with raptors is the Utah raptor and even that is slightly smaller than a human.
Though fun fact about raptors, you call them under chickens, yet that might be accurate. Most Raptors if I remember right where about the size of a little more than a house cat. The biggest one that’s even close to what we think of with raptors is the Utah raptor and even that is slightly smaller than a human.
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