#mesozoic march

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[ID: Digital illustration of Spinosaurus Mirabilis floating over a blue rectangle on a light blue background. It faces right, its head bowed and jaws open. Its chest is slightly at 3/4 view, while its hindquarters twist back to be in profile. Its tail is unnaturally gathered underneath it. Its front claws sit in front of it below its head, while one back leg is raised and the other lowered. In the bottom right corner is a watermark reading: “LEAVES AND INKS” /end ID]

Mesozoic March 3 | Spinosaurus

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DINOSAURS!

some of the cute horned dino-guys :3

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[ID: Digital illustration of a dilophosaurus floating over a magenta rectangle on a cool-toned, off white background. It has an overall blue toned body with bright pink crest, and some pink feathers on the tail. It faces left, head bowed and neck making a curve. all of its limbs are in front of it, one arm and one leg raised while the other is more tucked towards its side. its tail bends unnaturally in front of it. In the bottom left corner is a watermark reading: “LEAVES AND INKS” /end ID]

Mesozoic March 2 | Dilophosaurus

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[ID: Digital Illustration of a tanystropheus floating over a purple to blue gradient rectangle on an off white background. Tanystropheus is a long-necked triassic reptile, with short, splayed legs and a disproportionately long neck. The drawing is stylized, putting bends in the longer extremities. Its head faces left, its body gathered beneath it to form a reverse C shape. In the bottom right corner is a watermark reading: “LEAVES AND INKS”. /end ID]

Mesozoic March 1 | Tanystropheus

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Mesozoic March! And machariodonte March? Oh yeah sorry for all the misspellings, dyslexia is kicking today. 

Speedpaint link for first one - second onesecond one

If you’re on mobile and can see both slides, the first is my concept of an early member of the family Barbourofelidae from North America + Eurasia during the Miocene until the Messinian. Only species I’ll do a big chunk on because they really sparked my love for the Miocene and looking further into lesser known species of the Cenozoic and exploring the connections because there’s so many rad species being overlooked for the heavyweights like Smilodon and Woolly Mammoths. But they’re rad, do go look em up if you have the time :)

Second, which I’ll add a link to here if you’re not on mobile (link), is a little dinosaur thing, for Mesozoic March which I made up just now so it doesn’t look like I’m just drawing them because I’m obsessed with them although I am. I draw at least three dinosaurs a week like full on like this I just don’t post them because I’m not too confident in my grasp on their relatisticness but who cares because I LOVE DEINONYCHUS!! I used refs from the Jurassic World Evolution game for the Dilophosaurus on the top left and the Deinonychus on top right; below is a bebe Dakotaraptor whose coloring is based off an illustration in a Dakotaraptor paper I read a while ago. I don’t recall the name but it was by some sort of institute, I’ll look it up and add the link when I get a chance. From the speeding you can see I was going to draw a Cryolophosaur but it got undesirable to mine mind halfway through and I chose to do a bebe.