@OgdenDinoPark #Spinosaurus coloring pages before and after! Hand modeling by @thecongaheavy
Staff meeting doodles
This one started out as a sketch and accidentally morphed into a black and white painting lol. I like the way it turned out though :)
Baryonyx is Greek for “Heavy Claw.” It was discovered in 1986 by English rockhound, William Walker, Greek for “Heavy Sideburns” (that’s right 1986, not 1896, despite the rockin’ hairdo—http://goo.gl/A0JXlI ). While prospecting in the clays of Smokejack’s Pit in Southern England, Bill Walker discovered a mysterious claw, unlike anything seen before. After further excavation, it was found to be the enormous thumb claw of a 9.5m (31ft) long predatory dinosaur. Baryonyx’s long, crocodile-like snout and nightmarish claws used for fishing shed new light on the spinosaur family. It was an entirely new body shape for predatory dinosaurs. In this image, Baryonyx is shown snatching up a 2m (6ft) prehistoric shark called Hybodus who has wandered too close to shore (against everything his mother ever told him, I might add).
•Nerdy Detail— The moon’s orbit has been decaying over the millennia, and so the moon would have been almost 5,000 kilometers (~3,000 miles) closer at the time of Baryonyx. Maybe not as close as depicted here, but you know, artistic license ;) Also, as Baryonyx lived 130 million years ago, the moon would not yet have experienced the impact that caused the prominent Tycho crater on its lower half. So, here I’ve expunged it (using the same digital tool the person who takes your local high school senior photos uses every year to remove thousands of zits from the graduating class. There’s an image for you).
While we’re on a tangent, Tycho (for whom the crater was named) was an interesting fellow. Imagine this: 16th Century Denmark, the master of a steampunk astronomy castle who wore a metal cyborg nose because he lost his own in a sword fight to defend his mathematical formulas. Interested? Here’s the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Tycho.27s_nose *cloud brushes by Yuumei: http://yuumei.deviantart.com/art/Cloud-Tutorial-Part-1-396507964
Today’s doodle: Studies for a Baryonyx life reconstruction I’m working on right now. Final image will post tomorrow!
Big Announcement!
Big announcement! I’m launching a new Youtube channel this Friday! It’s a combination of dinosaur news and paleobiology, “how to draw”, and dinosaur movie reviews! Watch this space for updates through the week :)