Do you remember Jurassic Park, the movie? That scene where Ian and Ellie are screaming at Muldoon as he speeds through that windy little Jungle road being chased by that huge ole T-rex?
That scene was like gold for my imagination. Sparking what has turned out to be a lifelong love and obsession with dinosaurs & doodling them in various realistic or fictional forms!
This leads me to one of my art series from 2020.
At the time I wanted to combine my newfound addiction to the art style stippling and my old love of prehistoric fauna.
What is stippling you may be asking yourself?
Let me save you the google trip.
The idea in its simplest form is for darker areas in your drawing, you apply more dots, keeping them close together. Then for progressively lighter areas use fewer dots and space them farther apart. In the end, hopefully, the result is a whole image!
Below you will find my tools of choice! I personally am prone to smearing and smudging as I move across the page. So these are amazing and dry quickly enough to keep working without downtime to wait for the ink to dry!
Disclaimer: I know these are no longer accurate portrayals of dinosaurs (your internal voice must be screaming WHAT ABOUT THE FEATHERS!). I am just fond of this style.
Teeth rows and rows of ferocious sharp teeeeeth.
I accidentally made the grumpiest Hadrosauridae (duckbill).
This did end up being a series of 12 alternating between black & white or watercolored.
I hope you enjoyed some of these gems that are near and dear to my heart.
💖Huzzah
