PrimevalRaptor's artworks

[Shonisaurus]

Magnificent illustration of spinosaurus has been fantastic. That effect of light and shadow combined has been great. That sunset is very realistic.

[PrimevalRaptor]

Thank you!

For a bit of a change, we got a Paleozoic visitor! And he doesn't even have bones.



The iconic Permian eugeneodont Helicoprion - not a shark, despite it's similar appearance.
Not quite as strange as some earlier reconstructions, but still a bizarre animal!



For some bonus info: I actually installed Blender again after years (used to mod for Zoo Tycoon 2) and whipped up a rough model to help me with pinpointing the fin shape and positioning...



And then ended up changing the angle and pose quite a bit, I'm really happy with the result.

[Shonisaurus]

I really like your pale representation. Honestly with the new specialized scientific reconstructions the helicoprion looks more like a shark. On the other hand with the new restoration, the helicoprion has lost the charm it had judging by its old reconstructions. Magnificent illustration, I congratulate you !.

[irimali]

Really nice spinosaurus.  I like the soft ripples on the water.  Plus weichselia is such a cool looking plant, yet rarely seen in paleoart. 

[Halichoeres]

Very nice! Eugeneodonts are so strange. How did they mate without pelvic fins/claspers???

[Tyto_Theropod]

Again, I really love these two drawings, especially the dramatic colours on the Spino!  I'm also impressed at your using Blender to get an idea of pose and angle, but then as a staunch traditional artist who's never really got the hang of digital art, I'm easily impressed when it comes to anything digital.  I tried Blender myself years back and could never get my head around it personally.  Must really come in handy for palaeoart, when you're working with animals that, understandably, are harder to find good reference photos for than extant ones!

[PrimevalRaptor]

Thanks again, everyone!
@irimali Weichselia really is pretty cool, I'm glad I had such good references for it, hope more people will make use of them.

@Halichoeres I feel that's one of those secrets that's best left in the deep depths.

@Tyto_Theropod Thank you! Blender is a bit tricky at first, but luckily there's lots of good tutorials out there and Blender also got a TON of quality of life features compared to when I first started with it in the ZT2 times.

As per usual, of course I also brought along something new for you guys:



Mosasaurus hoffmannii is one of the largest mosasaurs with lenghts of 11 up to maybe 18m.
Is he lunging at prey or just happy to be here?
A fairly quick drawing to join in on Mosasaur Week, they are some of my favorite extinct animals after all.



Once again used Blender to make a reference model.

[Halichoeres]

Good use of Blender, like folks who use maquettes to get the shadows right on their paintings. Takes up less space, though! And the result for your image is very nice.

[PrimevalRaptor]

Thank you!
It is really useful for that (though I really respect people who make those maquettes, I'm not crafty enough for that lol)




Here's something new cause I realized it's been quite a bit since I last drew some pterosaurs (despite me being a big fan of them)
Two Anhanguera are having a bit of a territorial dispute, or one of them just had a bad day, who knows?

[PrimevalRaptor]

Megalosaurus, the first dinosaur genus named back in 1824, strolling alongside a beach, unaware of it's future scientific significance.

Going back to the classics for this one, I drew this guy back in 2014 once and while I may be a bit less speculative with soft tissue nowadays, I'm handling this front angle way better now thanks to some selfmade references.

[Stegotyranno420]

Probably your best drawing yet. Good job

[Shonisaurus]

Magnificent paleoart of megalosaurus, honestly an iconic carnivorous theropod little treated in the toy dinosaur world. I like your art.

[PrimevalRaptor]

Thanks a lot, guys!

@Shonisaurus agreed but luckily CollectA finally delivered a great one this year.

Speaking of great, here's something Big...Al:



The sub-adult Allosaurus jimmadseni specimen MOR 693, better known as Big Al, is probably one of the most well-known fossils, especially during it's feature in BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs special "The Ballad of Big Al".

Used the skeletal from the description of A.jimmadseni (https://peerj.com/articles/7803/) as a reference which in itself is modified from the skeletal by Scott Hartman.

I usually prefer making my own color schemes but since this is THE Big Al I figured might as well pay tribute to probably still the best dinosaur documentary out there.

[Shonisaurus]

Nice illustration of allosaurus I congratulate you. I totally agree with you, the WWD series is the best that has been done and that almost more than 23 years have passed. Superb TV series, fortunately I have it on my DVDs. It is recommended for all ages.

[PrimevalRaptor]

Thank you! WWD really is amazing, probably still the best dinosaur documentary even with inaccuracies because it just portrays them as animals without much sensationalism.

And speaking of animals, I brought another one along:



The early Jurassic plesiosaur Rhomaleosaurus, discovered in the United Kingdom, blissfully unaware of recent soccer events.
This is my celebration of sorts for reaching 1000 followers on my art Twitter , a remake of my very first digital paleoart piece from 9,5 years ago.



Here's a side-by-side comparison of the two pieces.

[Shonisaurus]

What a cool illustration! That rhomaleosaurus is perfect and the effects you have given of the sea give a feeling of depth to the drawing and even almost three dimensions. It is a great painting. You can see the atmosphere or air in the painting. It looks more like a photo than a painting or drawing.

[PrimevalRaptor]

Thank you very much! It took me quite a bit of fiddling around until I got the water to look the way I wanted but that means it certainly paid off!



This time we have something a bit simpler, yet still pretty huge: the infamous giant Triassic dicynodont Lisowicia bojani.
Used the skeletal from it's description paper as a reference, what an absolute unit!

[Shonisaurus]

Wow! A lisowicia bojani sincerely your best work done to date and that they are all elite paleoartists. Great drawing! You should be proud of your pictorial works. It is authentic paleoart, it reminds me a lot of the art of Andrey Atuchin.

[PrimevalRaptor]

Thanks a lot, that's some big praise, Atuchin is an amazing artist, thank you!




This started out as a quick drawing of the recently published Hell Creek mosasaurine but things...escalated a bit.

Here's the paper for those interested:
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8v08w2d6

[PrimevalRaptor]

Bringing in a trio of updates over the last months, figured it'd be fine to bump the thread now.



Starting off with a portrait of Ceratosuchops, one of the two newly described British spinosaurids from last year.



Next up my second attempt at a prehistoric mammal, a scene from the Pleistocene featuring a lone Coelodonta antiquitatis, commonly known as woolly rhino.



And last but not least my most recent drawing, a quick reconstruction of Iguanodon using Scott Hartman's skeletal since my last attempt at this iconic dinosaur was nine years ago.
Bonus points if you recognize the color scheme.