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You know that feeling when you just need to throw down an idea like a raw lump of clay? Arthropleura taking advantage of the pithy centre of a Lepidodendron damaged in a severe Carboniferous wind storm.
My process for this particular piece. I start very sloppy & loose, just need to get out the basic composition & simple tones. Then slap some colour and lighting onto that original compositional sketch. Quick line work to work out some details comes next before rendering.
Herbivores will rarely pass up an opportunity for an easy protein snack. Such as this hadrosaurid Gobihadros mongoliensis taking the chick of an early waterfowl from it's nest on the banks of a Late Cretaceous river.
I have one teeny-tiny paleo request. Can we please stop calling hadrosaurs "duck-billed dinosaurs"? It's just kinda silly and the similarity is superficial at best. Unless we all agree to call ducks "hadrosaur-billed birds".
However being near the Southern end of the globe, this environment experienced months of 24 hr sun in the Summer and months of Winter darkness. Fragmentary pterosaur fossils have been found in Antartica, possibly from this poor sap with a broken wing. Here is my initial sketch.
Nowadays it's difficult to imagine Antartica as a forested continent, but it was for millions of years. Many plants today that are in the Southern hemisphere including this Winteraceae, belong to the Antarctic Floristic Kingdom which date back to supercontinent Gondwana 65 MYA.
Found my issues of Tyrant by Steve Bissette. The first comic came out in '94 and was ambitiously supposed to go for 10 years and follow the life and death of an individual T. Rex. Unfortunately it only lasted for 4 issues. Would have loved to have seen more.