Art (pic heavy)

Capt'n Midnight

Murals reminded me of Charles Knight


this is from 1896 when dinosaurs were supposed to plod along
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Laelops-Charles_Knight-1896.jpg

Crocodiles are cold blooded but they can bound like rabbits galloping along with their spines stiff. So you don't need to be warm blooded to spring into action

Capt'n Midnight

Therizinosaurs - the duck billed platypus of dinosaurs



http://www.dinosaur-world.com/feathered_dinosaurs/therizinosauroidea.htm

Capt'n Midnight

Will have to dig out my prehistoric books to more nice ones.

Galvasean

And so the art thread was born (feel free to submit better ideas for names).

Post either:

-your own art
-famous art that you like (please do your best to credit the artist who made thepiece)
or just chat about your favourite palaeontology artists.

I think I'll put forward for your consideration one of my favourite current palae artists, Luis V Rey. He has become one of the most prominent artists of dinosaurs in recent years and his works decorate many books.
His colourful and dynamic style is easy to spot. They really look like action packed snapshots of a long gone world.

Some of my favourites:

Some Utahraptors don't get it all their own way when wrangling with an Astrodon:


A pair of carcharodontosaurines ambush a juvenille titanosaur:


Therizinosaurus grabs a bite:


Gigantoraptors defend their babies from a marauding Alectrosaurus:

Galvasean

Only encountered this Luis V. Rey picture today:


I also taught this was incredibly cool. Really puts things into perspective:

Galvasean

Thought this thread was due a bump so here are a few scribbles of my own.






I have more lying around, but havent scanned them yet.

Wibbs

Galvasean wrote: »

Therizinosaurus grabs a bite:

[pedant] eating broadleaves, oak by the look of it and is that grass at his feet? A bit out of place. [/pedant]:D Great pictures and idea for thread. Amazing that the victorian artist put so much movement into the creatures in the first pic.

Galvasean

Wibbs wrote: »

[pedant] eating broadleaves, oak by the look of it and is that grass at his feet? A bit out of place. [/pedant]:D

Sure, why not?

http://www.livescience.com/animals/051117_old_grass.html

Weidii

Eh, perhaps not the most accurate depictions of Dinos!

Jako8

More Luis V. Rey

Hunting pack of Utahraptors bring down an Astrodon

Galvasean

Thought this thread could do with a bump because I found something very cool.

Galvasean

Article on a recent dinosaur art exhibition by William Stout:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/apr/25/jurassic-art/

Check out his prehistoric gallery on his official website.

Here' a sample:

(probably could have used that one for my Quinkana article..)

Loads more really cool murals here:
http://www.sdnhm.org/media/images_stoutmurals.html

Galvasean

Stumbled across this today. What a therizinosaur would look like in the Land Before Time universe:

Rubecula

I saw this and thought of you......

Galvasean

Precious memories.... Used to have a massive version of this as a poster when I was a kid.

Adam Khor

Ok, because you asked for it, here's some of my art :>


Kinda "Primevalized" Dracorex:



Kosmoceratops vs Teratophoneus:



Argentavis (it counts as a dinosaur, right? )



Goronyosaurus:



Tyrannosaurs hunting Alamosaurus:



Teratophoneus




Tyrannosaurus rex with prey:



Rather crazy looking Smilodon:



Atlasaurus:



Rajasaurus hunting Isisaurus:



And finally, the dino made of dinos:



Oh, by the way, the funky Nephila jurassica pic I showed you before? It was mine too. I just wanted to know what you guys would say without knowing who the author was Now I wonder why you thought I was Japanese.

Hope u like these, anyways

Galvasean

Adam Khor wrote: »

Oh, by the way, the funky Nephila jurassica pic I showed you before?

Knew it!

Can you check your Kosmoceratops vs Teratophoneus again? Not loading up for me..

Great pics all 'round. Love the dino made of dinos.

edit: actually, your other pic of Teratophoneus aint loading either

If you have any pics of anything non palaeontology related, feel free to post them in the off topic thread.

Adam Khor

Galvasean wrote: »

Knew it!

Can you check your Kosmoceratops vs Teratophoneus again? Not loading up for me..

Great pics all 'round. Love the dino made of dinos.

edit: actually, your other pic of Teratophoneus aint loading either

If you have any pics of anything non palaeontology related, feel free to post them in the off topic thread.

What is it with Teratophoneus?

Ok, let's try again:






There... I hope it works this time.

Where's the off topic thread?

Galvasean

Working now

Adam Khor wrote: »

Where's the off topic thread?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056245808

Rubecula

As a totally inept person with a pencil can I just say "Bloody wonderful drawings Adam"

Seriously I am very very impressed. Well done mate.

Adam Khor

Rubecula wrote: »

As a totally inept person with a pencil can I just say "Bloody wonderful drawings Adam"

Seriously I am very very impressed. Well done mate.

Thanks a lot mate, I appreciate it In reality it's no pencil, but ballpoint pen. :> Except for the Smilodon, that is

Kess73

WOW!

I am blown away by those, Adam.

Adam Khor

Thanks! I have many more, in case u wanna see XD

Rubecula

Yes Please. If they are anything like the last lot I wanna see all of them mate. Brilliant stuff.

Kess73

Would love to see more please.

Adam Khor

Ok, as you wish

Velociraptor digging for a snack:



Sinocalliopteryx:




Machairodus kabir (you know, the really huge one from Chad):



Saurophaganax meets Amphicoelias:



Dinopithecus:



Incisivosaurus:



A rather cartoony one of my cousin Edgar fighting a Pristichampsus. Kinda.



Majungasaurus:



Troodon meets another superior intelligence



Ornithocheirus:



Carnotaurus chasing ornithopod:



Chasmosaurus:



Kronosaurus reaches for a Muttaburrasaurus:

Galvasean

Excellent stuff. Worthy of being in a book.

Kess73

Galvasean wrote: »

Excellent stuff. Worthy of being in a book.

That is no lie. I have reference books with less detailed pictures. The Chasmosaurus really stands out.

Rubecula

Absolutely brilliant stuff. Yes indeed real book quality, good idea that. Go for it.

By the way is your cousin named Ivor Bollokoff?:pac:

Adam Khor

Rubecula wrote: »

By the way is your cousin named Ivor Bollokoff?:pac:

Erm... I better don´t answer; there's obviously a joke that I don´t get and I don´t wanna say something stupid.

Rubecula

Adam Khor wrote: »

Erm... I better don´t answer; there's obviously a joke that I don´t get and I don´t wanna say something stupid.

The picture of Pristichampsus. It seems to show it has bitten his vital bits off.


I'll get me coat:o

By the way you could make moneyout of your talent (which is better than this guys anyway)

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/83/

Could be a good money spinner as a sideline if you can get them published.

Adam Khor

Rubecula wrote: »

The picture of Pristichampsus. It seems to show it has bitten his vital bits off.


I'll get me coat:o

By the way you could make moneyout of your talent (which is better than this guys anyway)

http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/store/product/83/

Could be a good money spinner as a sideline if you can get them published.

Oooh I see... XD Wouldn´t there be much more blood though?

And thanks! I am trying to get published, and I'm also selling some art. Having my critters in a book or comic or something is one of my goals :>

Adam Khor

Just uploaded a new pic, it's a couple of Omeisaurus. Based them off some Gregory Paul reconstructions and they look really, really weird. Next time I'm basing them only on my imagination XD

Rubecula

To be honest I think they were more likely to have had a horizontal stance not an upright one. Moving heads from side to side not high up in the air.

Just my own impression though, not a fact.

Adam Khor

Rubecula wrote: »

To be honest I think they were more likely to have had a horizontal stance not an upright one. Moving heads from side to side not high up in the air.

Just my own impression though, not a fact.

Yeah, that seems to be the current idea but I'm not really convinced... I have noticed that in many ancient ecosystems there were different kinds of sauropods with different neck lenghts. I can´t imagine how they avoided competition with each other unless they were feeding at different heights just the same way gerenuks and giraffes avoid competing with other herbivores. Omeisaurus looks like a high level browser to me, although of course I'm no expert :>

Also, I don´t think sauropods (at least most of them) carried their necks horizontally. Seems to me that it would be a waste, when they could use their long neck to watch their surroundings for potential food sources or predators, as well as other sauropods, wouldn´t that be an advantage?
Also, seems to me that a sauropod carrying its neck horizontally would be in dire danger of its throat being bitten by a predator; to avoid this the sauropod would have to lift its neck fairly quickly, which, if it wasn´t adapted already to carry its neck upright, would probably cause it to have a stroke or something.

So, my view is that sauropods carried their neck upright just like modern day mammals and birds (I think they recently published a study that confirmed this, didn´t they?) and that they had adaptations that allowed them to lift or lower their head freely without fainting or dying as a result (which always seemed like a stupid idea to me). But like I said, I am no expert and this probably deserves another thread haha :cool:

newyorker87

These are incredible!!!

Galvasean

Trip down memory lane. Anyone remember that crummy paint feature on that old social networking site called Bebo? Well, a few scribbles from way back when...






and finally...

Galvasean

Just thought I'd post up an iconic illustration by one of my favourite palaeontologists, Robert T. Bakker.

Pristichampus

Adam Khor

Galvasean wrote: »

Just thought I'd post up an iconic illustration by one of my favourite palaeontologists, Robert T. Bakker.

Pristichampus

Yeah, great artist Mr. Bakker... guess it helps being one of the few paleontologists with imagination XD

Galvasean

Now that i have your attention Mr. Khor, how about a link to your Deviant art page?

Adam Khor

Galvasean wrote: »

Now that i have your attention Mr. Khor, how about a link to your Deviant art page?

Ask and thou shall receive

http://hodarinundu.deviantart.com/

Enjoy. Just... keep in mind some stuff is QUITE old XD