Behold my masterpiece.
This is the fifth T. rex drawing that I’ve posted to this blog, and it is the hardest drawing that I have ever had to make. Every individual scale was done by hand, one by one. This drawing took me months to finish. To give you a better idea about the utterly insane amount of detail, the actual drawing of the dinosaur itself from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail measures precisely 24 inches. Most of the drawn scales measure at only one millimeter in diameter.
As you can see, it is done in the same pose as my previous two full-body T. rex drawings, but I made some noteable improvements:
- Slightly changing the shape of the skull – my original one looked a little too much like Tarbosaurus rather than Tyrannosaurus.
- Not making the face as shrink-wrapped as the original head drawing was.
- Making the neck more detailed and fuller.
- Changing the position of the hands to be more anatomically correct.
- Making its body fatter – the original was too skinny.
- Making the tail thicker and fatter to properly counter-balance the now-heavier front half of the body.
- Changing the shape of the feet.
This drawing was made on several sheets of 8.5 x 11 printer paper, with just an ordinary No. 2 pencil…and a whole lot of patience.
Categories: Paleontology, Uncategorized
DINOSAURS AND BARBARIANS 
obviously based on Gregory S. Paul
Well, a little bit. Personally, I try to avoid having my work look too much like Gregory Paul’s. Other people like Conway have artwork that is so similar to Paul’s work that they’re almost indistinguishable. Gregory S. Paul’s dinosaurs are too skinny, misproportioned, and flat. In a lot of his work, there’s very little to show depth. I’ve tried to make my work more like John Sibbick, Mark Hallet, or Doug Henderson – a more natural realistic look.