Ictonyx artwork

[Ezikot]

Bandes dessinées (Franco-Belgian comics)

[Ictonyx]

Ah, thank you!

[Shonisaurus]

Every day you excel in your paleoart that iguanodon drawn from the front view is a beastly well illustrated figure. I would like you to illustrate a book about dinosaurs or other prehistoric animals in the future (I don't know if I've told you before). Your illustrations are great.

[Ictonyx]

Thank you Shonisaurus that's very kind! All my Mesozoic drawings are actually intended for a book project... I have done about 40 - 45 out of what will eventually be about 80 - 90 drawings, so about half way. I hope it will all come together eventually, but it will take another few years to finish illustrating and writing!

[Shonisaurus]

Thank you Shonisaurus that's very kind! All my Mesozoic drawings are actually intended for a book project... I have done about 40 - 45 out of what will eventually be about 80 - 90 drawings, so about half way. I hope it will all come together eventually, but it will take another few years to finish illustrating and writing!

Thank you for your words. You can be sure that if one day your book is published with these illustrations either in English or Spanish I will be a safe buyer even if it is only for having all your drawings collected in a physical book. Remember my words. I am a person of my word and I really like your drawings. Collectible dinosaurs I will not buy much for now, but illustrated or scientific books on dinosaurs and prehistoric fauna will, and if one day I repeat a book with their drawings is published, I will buy it because I like good art and good illustrations of dinosaurs.

[Ictonyx]

Thanks Shonisaurus, that means a lot.

[Ictonyx]

Deinonychus antirrhopus

[Shonisaurus]

How good has that deinonychus left you in his figure and his face shows intelligence, he is like angry or thinking, maybe he is preparing to hunt?

The details are typical of the best paleoartists.

[Ictonyx]

Megalosaurus bucklandii

[Ictonyx]

Carcharodontosaurus saharicus

[Ictonyx]

A drawing of some fish from the Late Cretaceous Niobrara Formation. The giant filter-feeding pachycormid Bonnerichthys gladius (left, 4 - 5 m long) and the big predatory pachycormid Protosphyraena perniciosa (right, about 3 m long) with an escort of Pachyrhizodus minimus (about 50 cm long). All these fish lived in the Western Interior Seaway, the shallow sea that split North America in half during the Late Cretaceous.

[Halichoeres]

Loving the pachycormids!

[Concavenator]

I @Ictonyx didn't know you were a member of this forum!  Great to have you here.

I'm a big fan of your style. I'd describe it as somewhat minimalistic yet realistic at the same time (which may sound contradictory, but it really is what it strikes me as).

And you made some of my favorite depictions of two of my all-time favorite dinosaurs, Styracosaurus and Suchomimus:

Art by Ictonyx


Art by Ictonyx

[Ictonyx]

Loving the pachycormids!

Thanks! When I was researching this drawing, I was amazed to find how few illustrations there are of any of the three taxa. Pachyrhizodus I can understand, but it is crazy how under-illustrated the pachycormids are given that they are big, spectacular, weird-looking animals.

[Ictonyx]

I @Ictonyx didn't know you were a member of this forum!  Great to have you here.

I'm a big fan of your style. I'd describe it as somewhat minimalistic yet realistic at the same time (which may sound contradictory, but it really is what it strikes me as).

And you made some of my favorite depictions of two of my all-time favorite dinosaurs, Styracosaurus and Suchomimus:

Art by Ictonyx


Art by Ictonyx

Thanks so much that's very kind! I think of those drawings as old and in some ways not in line with my current approach, so it is lovely to hear that they are still appreciated!

[Ictonyx]

Giant Pleistocene hyaena Pachycrocuta brevirostris holding a human arm.

[Ictonyx]

Megalosaurus bucklandii

[Ictonyx]

Xinjiangtitan shanshanesis