Re: Dinosaur artwork

[bert.dol@philips.com]

-Øyvind M. Padron wrote:

By my opinion, the best inspiration to do life reconstructions, is to browe
through encyclopediae of living animals, especially mammals. People often
tend to do a 'Running Velociraptor' or a 'Running Triceratops' or a 'Running
Euoplocephalus', but take a look at the existing wildlife today. Elephants
walking slowly, even just standing most of the time. Lions lie on the
ground. Leopards lie on a branch. The moose stands right on the spot, and
eats from a tree, and the Puma is yawning. This is not the most spectacular
scenes ever, but it's 90% of reality in nature.

>>Couldn't agree more. I am not an artist myself, although I do draw animals 
>>sometimes. I do not remember the exact page, but in HP Greg Paul's book there 
>>is this 2-page illustration of sauropods taking a drink while a theropod is 
>>lying in the shade, just
observing things. Theropods are not always running around screaming and yowling 
as if BurgerKing just opened its doors. They do normal things too. And that is 
good to see in illustrations. I like that. Just my opinion, though. Not 
everyone would/should
agree.


Bert



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