In the meantime, I was asked to put together a composition for the cover of the dinosaur origins volume resulting from last year's SVP Symposium in Bristol. It is going to be published by the Earth and Environmental Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, I'd never heard of it either, but it must be an important journal because it will have my artwork on the cover. It will also have my paper with Bill revising the tetrapod biostratigraphy of PEFO.
Anyway, I busted ass and got the dinosauromorphs colored in, and also added Tawa, Plateosaurus and Lesothosaurus to round out the dinosauromorph family tree (well, technically just dinosauriform since I don't have any lagerpetids). The cover will have these arranged in a phylogenetic tree with the basal archosaurs, still in black and white. I haven't had time to color all the pseudosuchians yet, and also the format of the cover required that I stack things on top of each other vertically; so the dinosauromorphs are colored and stacked on top of the pseudosuchians. This is bullshit, and I feel dirty.
Anyway, here are just the colored dinosaurmorphs. I have Marasuchus, Silesaurus, and Herrerasaurus identified as such, as they were the actual models; in the black and white version, they are standing in for Dromomeron, the PEFO silesaurid, and Chindesaurus respectively.
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| From Paleo Errata |
Also, you need to watch this right away.
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4 comments:
Am i seeing fuzziness at the base of Dinosauria? Cool!
Nice work Jeff, and some very good colour schemes.
This is really wonderful art work. I have always wished the basal members of the dinosaur-line to be shown with some "proper" integument and this is a great example of such. I wonder if Plateosaurus should get a bit of fuzz too.
Great colors! I reeeally like that Plateosaurus.
Really enjoying your skin/feather/fluff/scale reconstructions and colour selection.
Your animals feel authentic and real, beautiful stuff.
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