Nathan E. Rogers

NATURAL HISTORY ILLUSTRATION

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Kulindadromeus Middle Jurassic, Asia Digital painting made with Krita.

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Spinophorosaurus Middle Jurassic, Africa

A lone sauropod ascends an arid incline in low light. I made this using Blender.

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Tupuxuara Early Cretaceous

A quick and fun piece made with watercolor, ink, and colored pencil. The head should probably be bigger.

I did a digital illustration of this pterosaur for the website Pteros some years ago - check it out here: https://www.pteros.com/pterosaurs/tupuxuara/

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Scaphognathus Late Jurassic A quick and fun piece made with watercolor and ink. Feels strange not having Ctrl+Z and layers, but there's something cool about the emergent properties of physical media!

I did a digital illustration of this pterosaur for the website Pteros some years ago - check it out here: https://www.pteros.com/pterosaurs/scaphognathus/

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I got a 3D Printer! I have an idea for a tabletop Dinosaur survival game - would anyone be interested in such a thing? The dice are my own sculpt featuring dromaeosaur claws for 1 and 2, and theropod footprints for 3-6. The figurine is a Citipati oviraptorosaur model I made, printed at roughly 1:60 scale on a 30mm base. More to come.

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Minnesota End of the Ice Age Sometime around 10,000 years ago An ancestor of the loons we see today paddles through a newly-formed lake as the glacial ice sheet retreats, and the moldering remains of a grand old pachyderm, a Woolly Mammoth, sink into the earth. I made this digital painting with Krita and a Wacom tablet, running on Linux.

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A lone sauropod dinosaur strides along a rocky cliff edge while warm summer clouds stack in the distance and three rhamphorhynchoid pterosaurs fly high above. I need to work on improving technique, but watercolor is really fun!

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Prehistoric portrait series - Color versions #Digitalpainting done in #Krita I'm trying a more stylized look while learning a new program. It's been fun!

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Prehistoric portrait series - Black and white versions #Digitalpainting done in #Krita I'm trying a more stylized look while learning a new program. It's been fun!

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Dilophosaurus Early Jurassic, North America An illustration I made a couple years back for an exhibit at the MBMNH.

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Deinonychus Cretaceous, North America An illustration I made in 2024 for an exhibit at the MBMNH.

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Utahraptor Early Cretaceous, North America An illustration I made in 2024 for an exhibit at the MBMNH.

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Velociraptor Late Cretaceous, Asia An illustration I made in 2024 for an exhibit at the MBMNH.

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Spinophorosaurus Middle Jurassic, 167 Ma, Africa

The discovery and study of this sauropod illustrate the scientific process; this dinosaur was first thought to have spikes on its tail, and the low posture often seen in traditional depictions of sauropods. After innovative research in 2020 involving 3D models of the skeleton, the new Spinophorosaurus reconstruction may have implications for understanding the life posture of other dinosaurs as well.

Read the paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63439-0.pdf

I made this using Blender, my own photos, and Photoshop digital painting. Not for use in AI training datasets. Thanks!

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Serpentisuchops pfisterae

Late Cretaceous, North America

A new genus and species! I had the honor of illustrating this ancient marine reptile for the descriptive scientific paper "A long-snouted and long-necked polycotylid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America" by Walter Scott Persons IV, Hallie P. Street, and Amanda Kelley, which is published in the journal iScience from Cell Press.

Read the paper at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105033

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Rhamphorhynchus 01

Late Jurassic, Europe

A pair of Rhamphorhynchus pterosaurs in the first light of dawn.

Made in Blender.

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Compsognathus longipes 01

Late Jurassic, Europe

A small theropod dinosaur, depicted here ascending a seaside rock in the early morning.

Made in Blender.