Maija Karalaさんのイラストまとめ

Some Sunday doodles of obscure dinosaurs you have probably never heard of. Approximately to scale. They must have been such pretty birdies.

Part two of me coloring @VilleSinkkonen ’s amazing linearts. These three are small pronghorns from the Miocene grasslands of North America. Their palettes were inspired by several species of antelope from the Horn of Africa.

A collaboration: I colorised some of @VilleSinkkonen ’s palaeomerycid lineart. This was a highly successful group of ruminants, living on several continents and surviving tens of millions of years - not just evolutionary oddballs, despite the funny headgear.

Threat display.

One of the many Triassic oddball reptiles, Drepanosaurus was seemingly a cross between a chameleon and an anteater. Nice to do a personal piece once in a while, even if it is just a little drawing.

Accidental creatures.

Last night, I was tired to the bones but somehow ended up taking my iPad to bed and made these.... things. Don’t be like me, take care you get enough sleep!

Since everyone else is doing this: a quick portrait of Tlatolophus, a newly named hadrosaur from Mexico, with a particularly fancy crest. Might add it to my dinosaur book of there’s space on the hadrosaur spread.

Dead Archaeopteryx, work in progress. Somehow, Archaeopteryx always feels like a Jurassic magpie to me.

I guess this can't be avoided: #Under5ft3Artists
Yes, I'm tiny, and I illustrate animals, prehistoric, living and imagined. A kind of self portrait included.

My rat thing got just slightly out of hand. These animals are only united by their common name ending with ’rat’ - phylogenetically, they sit on diverse branches of the rodent family tree.

Something cute, fluffy and still living for a change. Paucidentomys, the earthworm-eating, nearly toothless rat from Sulawesi, and Cuscomys, the mysterious chinchilla rat of Machu Picchu. Both known from very few specimens, either very rare, very elusive, or both.