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Do you storyboard your visuals?
Figure 1 from our 2021 paper on the Snowmass Haplocanthosaurus as I sketched it in my notebook (left) and as it got submitted (right). We shifted part F into a separate figure during the proof stage...
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Did dinosaurs become more or less colourful through their lives?
On the excellent and convivial social network Mastodon, someone going by the handle “gay ornithopod” asked what turned out to be a fascinating question: What are your thoughts on how the coloration of...
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Facial hair of the Mesozoic: Bob Nicholls edition, part 2 (only ten years late)
Back in 2013, we showed you Bob Nicholls’ beautiful sketch “The Giant & Company”, featuring a giant Apatosaurus with a shaggy beard running along its neck. In the years since, I’d forgotten that he...
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New paper: theropod bite marks on Morrison sauropod bones
Distal end of MWC 4011, an ischium of Apatosaurus louisae that got munched on by a large theropod, probably Allosaurus or Ceratosaurus. On display at Dinosaur Journey in Fruita, Colorado. New paper...
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Two thoughts on blogging: thought archives, and bullets dodged
Brian Engh made this and posted it to FaceBook, writing, “Apropos of nothing here’s Mathew Wedel annihilating borderline parasitic theropods with the Bronto-Ischium of Eternal Retribution — a mythic...
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Designing book covers in half an hour, redux
Long-time readers may remember that back in 2013, Matt and I played a game where we each designed a cover, in half an hour, for a book whose name was randomly generated. Here’s what I came up with for...
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Brian Engh’s free public paleoart lectures next week!
If you live within striking distance of Norman, Oklahoma, and you have some time free next Monday and Tuesday, August 26 and 27, and you care enough about dinosaurs to be on SV-POW! reading this, then...
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My favorite piece of paleoart is now for sale
Sobia “helping” Brian Engh draw Ornatops. I’ve written here before about Donald Glut’s The New Dinosaur Dictionary and the looooong shadow it cast over my adolescence. That book introduced me to a lot...
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Move over, All Yesterdays: It’s time for #MikeTaylorAwesomeDinoArt, redux!
Back in 2013, John Conway was doing some paintings and Darren Naish was drawing lots of animals for a book. I chipped in to help with their artwork and some back and forth ensued. All this happened on...
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I’m stoked for Aquilops in Jurassic World Rebirth
A promo image Brian Engh did for the release of the Aquilops paper back when. Who wouldn’t want one of those?! See lots more great stuff at Brian’s Living Relic Productions. Aquilops turned 10 years...
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