I'm a scavenger. I admit it. This is the leftover cardboard backing from a ream of timesheets that got used up at work. I wanted to try doing something that was just ink and white colored pencil on brown "paper", since I've been seeing a lot of that kind of thing lately and it really interests me.
So all in all, this was pretty fun! This is the first time I've tried this coloring style of art. Acrocanthosaurus and Stegosaurus were my specimens of choice here, and while I'm pretty sure I did a couple horrible versions of stego's when I was a kid, this is my first time trying an Acro :)
Rather than try to look off of someone else's interpretation of certain dinosaurs when I'm trying to draw them, I've instead been looking up skeletons and then sketching out my own interpretation of the dinosaur. I really like doing this, not only because it's fun to watch the dinosaur kind of flesh out as I draw it, but it's so much easier for me to go off of a skeleton and have that base to build on, whereas if I tried to look at a full-bodied dino and draw it, I suffer from no end of confusion anatomy-wise. It must be the whole shapes/skeletons-are-your-friends thing. I'm glad I've finally become more comfortable with using them.
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