Dead Acrocanthosaurus

Not at all realistic, but something I did for fun.

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Brett

Dave the feathered dinosaur...

You know I'm still not sure if anyone ever confirmed this animal's species or not. Might have to do some digging.

Once again old art. I had to run down to Houston TX this past week, that's a drive and a half!

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Brett

More feathered dinosaurs for Leo

Over on Geomythologica, Leo did a very nice post about me, complete with comics of mine in his collection:) For some reason I didn't find out about it until last night so, since it took me so long, I decided to post some more feathered dinosaurs for him. This would be Utahraptor, largest 'raptor' found so far, if one particular fossil turns out to be correct, you don't know the half of it!

Sinocalliopteryx, crappy scan, sorry.

And Styracosaurus, with some feathery quill things on it's back and tail.

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Brett

Dimetrodon

Done for a how to draw book many years ago.

A friend of mine form Iran asked me to post this link to an image he drew of Xiphactinus vs Cretoxyrhina. Pretty cool Amin Khalegh! Colors by Scarypet!

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Brett

Plesiosaurus and Velociraptor

Done some time in 2005 for a how to draw book, It's supposed to be 'Nessie' but I just drew and actual Plesiosaurus. Both of these were colored by my wife.


For some reason this image never shows up right, it looks muddy on my machine but what are you gonna do? Velociraptors attacking a Protoceratops.

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Brett

Found it Leo! Proto Feathers

It's old an dirty and it's something I drew years ago, a proto feathered Coelophysis. With all the new feathered dinosaurs, all the things we think we know are basically tossed into chaos. We have small patches of skin for T. rex and Allosaurus, they show scales for that part of the body (only small sections of preserved skin, there might be feathers elsewere), we have a mostly scaled Carnotaurus. Feathered tyrannosaur ancestors... We have a hetrodontosaur species that shows feathers, completely unexpected, they are more closely related to the iguanadons and hardrosaurs... we have a psitticasuaurs with tail quills and scales... so what the heck are we supposed to put on these guys now, scales or feathers or proto feathers..? And with another recent find that shows that the feathers changed from one type of feather to another in some species as they matured... I'm at a loss. Do the feathers go all the way down to the beginning of the dinosaur family 'tree'? Questions and more questions. I'm left wondering if the scales on the backs of some hadrosaurs are actually scales or are hardened proto feathers like a rhino's horn (made of hairs actually.) Up is down and down is sideways.... my brain hurts. What we need are some large dinosaur find with skin and feathers or scales, like the little ones in Lioning.

I'm wondering if I'm going to have to start drawing 2 versions of every dinosaur, a scaled version and a feathered one. My hand is cramping just thinking of the extra work;)

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Brett

I'm fairly sure the hadrosaur scales are actually scales, but you never know;)

Stegosaurus in Trouble!

An old commission, as you can see by the signature. A couple of Torvosaurs have managed to trap an unfortunate Stegosaurus.

Be kind it's OLD! I only started drawing dinosaurs seriously in 2000.

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Brett

Struthiomimus

Done a few years ago, not sure how the feathers on these theropods would look best. I'm actuallynot sure were the heck they fit anymore... hmmmm.

Anyways, I found some older images that I haven't posted here yet so I'll start doing that tomorrow:)

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Brett

Cymbospondylus

Done for Art Evolved. Just a quick pencil drawing and color job, nothing too fancy. There is a little dinosaur in the water about to become lunch for a much larger ichthysaur called Cymbospondylus from the late Triassic. I think these things got to around 30 feet.

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Brett