Plasticbeast95's Paleoart

[Plasticbeast95]

First off, sorry for the quality of the images, I don't have a scanner, so I had to take photos of my art.

Pterosaurs:

Pteranodon (old)

pteranodon (new)

Ornithochierus head

ramphorynchus

Ornithopods:

Corythosaurus head

Parasaurolophus

Ornithopod

Ceratopsians:

Torosaurus

Pachyrhinosaurus

Einiosaurus

Ceratopsian

Psittachosaurus

Styracosaurus

Theropods:

Dromeosaur 2

Dilophosaurus

carnotaurus

Dromeosaur

Therizenosaurus

Deinonychus head

Velociraptor head

Oviraptoran

Dinosaura Miscellanea:

Stegosaur

Sad sauropod

Diplodocus head

Non-Dinosaurs:

Tylosaurus

icthyosaurus

Dunkelosteus

Dimetrodon

[Newt]

Plasticbeast95,

Your Pteranodons are by far the best drawings here! They show a sense of form and movement, and the newer combines accurate anatomy with a clean line. Your other drawings show that you're having fun with color, but all the animals are very static and two-dimensional, and the anatomy seems pretty vague. Are you using any reference while you draw? If not, you should! Many artists seem to feel reference is a crutch, but that's not true; it's a necessity for accurate drawing.

I have a suggestion for you: try drawing from life. It will help you improve by leaps and bounds! Obviously it's hard to find a live ceratopsian or dromaeosaur, so instead try drawing a dinosaur toy. Set the toy up with a light shining strongly on it from one direction to keep the shadows simple. Ignore the surface details and concentrate on proportions and shadows. Good luck!

[Plasticbeast95]

Plasticbeast95,

Your Pteranodons are by far the best drawings here! They show a sense of form and movement, and the newer combines accurate anatomy with a clean line. Your other drawings show that you're having fun with color, but all the animals are very static and two-dimensional, and the anatomy seems pretty vague. Are you using any reference while you draw? If not, you should! Many artists seem to feel reference is a crutch, but that's not true; it's a necessity for accurate drawing.

I have a suggestion for you: try drawing from life. It will help you improve by leaps and bounds! Obviously it's hard to find a live ceratopsian or dromaeosaur, so instead try drawing a dinosaur toy. Set the toy up with a light shining strongly on it from one direction to keep the shadows simple. Ignore the surface details and concentrate on proportions and shadows. Good luck!

Thanks! To be honest most of these are over four-five years old. I haven't drawn dinosaurs in a long time, lately ive been doing things like this...

Oddball artwork

And I have no pride to save, these dinosaurs are terrible, I know. I have ALWAYS had trouble with proportion and depth. In fact, the best (IMO) ones are the second Pteranodon and Carnotaurus, both of which were actually drawn from the Scheich Carnotaurus and Papo Pteranodon, respectively.