Dinovember 2021

I've always had an interest in paleontology and paleoart, especially dinosaurs. This is not a particularly unique quality, I will admit. I mention it because most of what I drew throughout middle- and high-school was dinosaurs. Paleoart, for a very long time, was the reason I kept drawing even as all my friends stopped and I ceased to see any real improvement. By November of 2021, I hadn't really drawn any serious dinos in quite a while, so I thought I'd take a month to remedy that. This ended up being especially fun as probably half or more of the creatures I drew ended up being suggestions from people who were excited about the whole thing.

Day 1

Deinonychus and a snack

Day 2

Suskityrannus & Zuniceratops

Day 3

Domehead cavalary. (Pachycephalosaurus) Day 3 was when I decided to try to make it more my own thing, a little more weird than just doing black & white dino reconstructions

Day 4

Mess with the bull, get the horns (Carnotaurus)

Day 5

Guild Talonmaster (Microraptor)

Day 6

On Triassic shores. First non-dino of the month: the temnospondyl amphibian Mastodonsaurus

Day 7

Tamer of beasts (Protoceratops, but the proportions are way off)

Day 8

¡Olé! (Another non-dinosaur: Dinodontosaurus)

Day 9

Cruel Blades (Therizinosaurs)

Day 10

River God (Spinosaurus)

Day 11

Troodon and... friend?

Day 12

Avisapiens Saurotheos. A bit of fanart of Simon Roy's and C.M. Kosemen's Dinosauroids that were a huge inspritation to me as a kid

Day 13

Houndmistress (Boverisuchus)

Day 14

The Old Man and the Sea (Pterodaustro)

Day 15

The Herdsman (Maiasaura and a rauisuchian)

Day 16

Say Cheese (Mononykus)

Day 17

Gone but not forgotten (The Great Auk)

Day 18

Sauromancer (Diplodocus)

Day 19

Deep Dive (Tully Monster & Anomalocaris)

Day 20+21

Gone Fishin' (Baryonyx & Dunkleosteus)

Day 22

Street Looks (Kulindadromeus)

Day 23

Lost in Time and Space (Parasaurolophus)

Day 24

Beneath the Waves (Thalattoarchon)

Day 25

Big Turkey (Deinonychus with turkey-like integument)

I ended up stopping at only 25 days as, at the time, I was still working a full-time non-art job and I also had a ton of commmissions to catch up with. Maybe one year I'll do it again.