If I'm honest it's probably like a 10-way tie, but if I really HAVE to pick, I'll say Saltasaurus because it borders on plausible coloring while simultaneously being a super fun food reference, and unlike you when I was a kid I always thought the herbivorous dinos were cooler.
Shonisaurus. My favourite animals you drew are Tanystropheus and Deinocheirus, but my favourite illustration was definitely "Penguin". It really benefits from being in your comfort zone of "sea creature". Cute blubbery body, too.
3 things: -Albertadromeus may not have been as boring as you thought. It is an Orodromine, a subfamily which also contains the genus Oryctodromeus, which we strongly suspect to be a burrower, as the fossils of a pair of them were found buried in a burrow chamber. As a close relative, Albertadromeus may also have shared this trait, which is not very common in dinosaurs!! -"Kalligrammatid" is a family of insects (kalligrammatidae), not a particular genus, and not to be too harsh but you were kinda using it like a genus name. Genera in this family include the namesake Kalligramma, Oregramma, and Meioneurites among others. -I really appreciate that you did this series, and the manner in which you did it as well. You shone a light on some really under-appreciated genera, as well as a whole bunch of non dinosaurs!! You are perhaps one of my favourite artists, and its been a real pleasure to see you tackling these animals in a way that feels both very "you" and very respectful to their appearance in life. Thank you Jack :)
18:53 hey! Pigeons are actually really cool! They're living tracking devices, they can make milk to feed their babies, they're incredibly strong flyers, and they're very very adorable!
They are also some of the only birds that can create suction in their mouths to drink, so they can drink directly from puddles and streams rather than having to scoop water into their beaks and then tip their heads back like most other birds
I don't usually comment on youtube videos, but as a fellow artist with zero interest in doing paleo art, I find this video super inspiring; your interpretation of these dinosaurs is so beautiful!!
irritator! my state university here in brazil has a statue of it crawling out of the roof of one of the science bffuildings, it looks more like a dragon than anything there, but i love your version of it! there's been some petitions recently to get the fossil back from germany to brazil just like the ubirajara was.
@@Subjectively UFC (federal university of ceará) its on a educational building called "seara da ciencia", its the state where most of the araripe basin is located so most brazillian fossils come from here its really cool
On the topic of elemental dinosaurs, Dinosaurs King solidified specific elements to prehistoric animals for me. Thyreophorans, which include stegosaurs and ankylosaurus, being associated with the earth with armor as far as rock, or ceratopsians being electric with their horns acting as lightning rods, or even smaller carnivores like maniraprors or abelisaurs being associated with wind all just for for me
for the hybodus the illustration lacks a few important details that inform us of its ecology the labial cartilages are missing, these are peices of cartilage around the mouth that support "cheeks" like nurse sharks or wobbegongs the relatives of hybodus and hybodus itself had these as most of these animals were benthic (lived on or near the ocean floor) the illustration also forgets the spiracle, a hole behind the head that allows many sharks to breath while on the ocean floor as most sharks dont need to constantly swim (only a few species need to) for the atlanticopristis these animals are always drawn as giant sawfish but thats actually not at all what they look like, they were related to skates and had waaaay more spikey bits than people think. they had these large denticles covering their bodies and on the sides of the head in addition to the rostral ones. these animals also were a lot smaller than usually depicted, being only 3-4m they were more wide as they were related to skates. we also have body fossils of these animals showing they werent big sawfish
43:52 fun fact, Crichton's Jurassic Park novel Dilophosaurus is much closer to being scientifically accurate than the film adaptation of the animal. The only real difference being the venom spitting ability, but there is no frill and it is much larger than a person.
I HAVE TO KNOW Have you played or at least seen Fossil Fighters designs? They each have such cool designs based off of their original location of discovery in the real world or about their name etymology. That game (among other things) really engraved paleontology into my mind and created my hyperfixation on prehistoric creatures.
I actually made 3D models of some fanmade vivosaurs for a lot of this challenge! I themed my whole interpretation of the challenge around Fossil Fighters, haha. Very excited that Jack posted his wrapup video already!
My favorite example of Fossil Fighters designs taking heavy influence from their place or origin or name is their carcharodontosaurus design. It has a head of a shark to reference the "shark-toothed" bit in their name, and it is given patterns and colors reminiscent of Egyptian art as some of its fossils have been found in Egypt! Sure it may not be a particularly accurate design, but the fact the design pays tribute to all these fun facts surrounding the dinosaur is nice.
@@xemiii That's the go-to when I talk about Fossil Fighters designs to newcomers. Also I like Megalosaurus having a bland grey design because it was the first named non-avian dinosaur so it's meant to be a blank slate. And Kronasaurus named after Chronos the titan of time and it has roman numerals to signify dates and time.
Loved the video! Always fun to see your month challenges. I will say i think i prefer the old style videos more, i love hearing you direct thought process for each speedpaint, seeing them in order, as well as seeing the whole process (i feel like in the earlier section of the video it often cut out and felt a little unsatisfying?). Its also exciting to see the updates each week and get more of a personal “doing the challenge with you” each week rather than a huge dump at the end. Shorter videos are more likely for me to watch as they come out also. I hope this feedback helps! I still really enjoyed hearing your overview thoughts so maybe you could make a conclusion video at the end of the month thats a little longer to include that? Dunno! *edit: also wanted to say i dont think the narrative is necessarily what i miss just the format of videos. I enjoy hearing art processes more than narrative( tho both are good!)
Into the terrestrial croc topic there's a lot of extinct crocs that were full terrestrial and competed with theropods in South America specially Baurusuchids in Mesozoic and Sebecosuchia in Cenozoic There were something like a hellish combination of a crocodilian and a big cat, with strong jaws and armored body
I really like this format of video!!! Being split between the quick fun summary retrospect, then having more detailed segments for people who want it! However, people can't tell that from a glance, so it's very likely a lot of people were intimidated by the hour long timestamp, and unfortunately with how videos are based on watchtime, if people only watch the first 20 mins (as you say they can do), RUclips sees it as a "this person didn't want to watch the whole video" and counts it against it. RIP youtube algorithm messing it up
Additional dino facts time! 12:48 Kaprosuchus might not have been terrestrial, but there are plenty alternatives. Like the entire Sebecid and Mekosuchid families, which lived until ~1600BCE . We are living in the first era without land crocs since crocs existed. Kinda sad. (Though Mekosuchus itself was an adorable squirrel-like thing, it's family was appropriately ferocious) 13:10 Speaking of names already being taken, there's Titanoptera (titanic wings), the proposed name for the azhdarchid pterosaurs. Already taken by extinct insects, with a 14-40cm wingspan. Also, say hello to Tyrannasorus rex (beetle) and Megalodon (clam), named to be as confusing as possible. 13:14 A funny thing about Pterosaur wing membranes is that their air sac system likely extended into it, giving a smooth transition from arm to membrane and an airfoil-like cross section. 13:35 Gotta disagree there, the best of both ankylosaurs and sauropods clearly goes to Shunosaurus, a sauropod with a tail club. 14:40 Over the last decade paleontologists have become really good at identifying if a skeleton is from a young or adult animal. Thus "junior synonyms" have become quite common. But there are also a few where it turned out t be wrong, like the proposal that Torosaurus is a grown-up Triceratops. And people still argue about Nanotyrannus being a teenage T. rex or not. (though probably yes) 15:24 The Carnotaurus specimen also includes skin impressions, incredibly rare for a fossil of this size. In fact, it may even have had impressions of the head and horns - but they were carved away before people realised what they were... Which is why nowadays, fossils are often left in their rock and only CT scanned instead, to avoid breaking anything getting to the bone. Also gotta comment on Carnotaurs' (and Abelisaurs in general) screwed up little arms. The upper and lower arms are fused into one bone, most of the fingers are short a few bones and immobile, and what looks like a fourth finger is actually a wrist bone sticking out in a random direction. But nevertheless, they must have used them for something, as the shoulder joint is not only still functional, but with more mobility than other theropods. Showing them flap them about in as a courtship display is a common, and hilarious, theory. 16:00 ...most amphibians and reptiles actually have a third eye, the parietal eye. It's just a little light sensor wired directly into their brain's pineal gland, which regulates the day/night cycle. And in the early 1900s it was a common mystical belief that even though humans don't have one anymore, the pineal gland may still allow you to view the supernatural. So yeah, magical third eye. (Some mosasaurs have particularly large holes in their skulls, indicating a well-developed parietal eye. Probably for deep-diving and low-light conditions.) 16:16 Yep, Dilophosaurs were big boys. In the Jurassic Park novel they were still properly sized, as Nedry's death scene describes one lifting him by his head before crushing it. (The Jurassic Park novels are metal, strongly recommend.) In the movie he has a throwaway line about it being "smaller than your brothers" or something to suggest it was only a baby. 18:23 there's a particularly awesome Kalligrammatid species that not only had eyespots, but straight-up mimicked the entire head of a small theropod to scare off attackers. They sat with wings folded back like a moth, so it's got the triangular shape already, add an eyespot at the back and a series of light stripes at the front wing edge to make a toothy maw. Boom! Theropod head. (Pattern is known as it was preserved in amber.) 19:17 The idea that Tanystropheus could sever it's tail like a lizard came about because to this day, it's not quite clear which clade it belongs to. (Like a lot of triassic weirdos) Nowadays people tend towards making it an archosaur, but for a while it was a true lizard. This belief was strengthened as finding severd tails (and necks) is quite common, but those probably weren't dropped voluntarily. They just make for a great chomping target. (The Nigel Marven dinosaur documentaries were my favourites as a kid, and still are.) 19:29 Dimorphodon has one thing more in common with your dog, it was more of a runner than a flyer! Unlike the bats they are often compared to, pterosaurs were very mobile on the ground as well. Pterosaurs with back legs close to their arm length were terrestrial, with a gallopping stride. (Though there were also a few that were helpless on land, like the nyctosaur family that lost their fingers)
I love this format. I often struggle with the narrative based monthly challenges. Like you do you, the narrative is interesting but I always find them difficult to watch in art videos (I know that's a personal thing and a lot of people like it). I really want the art insights, design processes, etc. and I love dinos. So this really spoke to me.
Let’s goooo ! An hour long paleo themed vid from my fav art ytb and I get to be in the art credit section. On an other note ty it’s been years since I discovered you and you allaways inspired me to become a better artist
Just a tip on Aegisuchus, the skull is estimated at up to 2.86 meters/9.4 feet, although about 2 meters/6.7 feet or less is more likely, but the whole animal would have been much larger. The specimen is very fragmentary but the full size of the animal would likely be between 10-15 meters, with the lower range of that estimate being more plausible. Also a little nitpick with Carnotaurus, the fossil was actually preserved with some skin and what were thought to be osteoderms like you portrayed. Later analysis has determined that those osteoderms were not actually osteoderms and they were not placed in an organized fashion (it took so long to realize this since the much of preserved skin skin got destroyed after being excavated, although not all of it, so we only have photos now of much of what was preserved), instead they were large scales placed at random. Love your art.
Small pterosaur wing nitpick : - your Dimorphodon and Hadzegopteryx seems to lack the pteroid bone (Hadzegopteryx in particular seem to miss the propatagium all together. - The wrist on your Dimorphodon seem to be very short or inexistant witch makes it look like the propatagium is attach to the base of the digits. - Speaking of finger, why is there only 2 visible, it should be 3 and pointing on the other direction. - Lastly, I don’t know if it’s a perspective issue but the uropatagium should probably be connected to the digit 5 that is absent on the hindlimb. I am not going to comment on the shrinkrapping since I think it’s the style you were going for. Anyway, love your videos, and I adore your take on the species you depicted.
Thanks for making this challenge! I enjoyed seeing all these new creatures each day and suggesting a few names, too. I was also thrilled when I saw you had hearted my suggestion of Colleen for the Killigrammatid butterfly guy 🦋. And while I didn't draw along or research, thanks for showing me all these cool guys!
Was awesome following along, as a paleo nerd I always love stylised accuracy like this. My favourite is probably Opal the Sauropelta, love the shading on the spikes. I'ma just drop some of my favourite obscure/funny prehistoric critters that you might find interesting. (There's a lot of crabs in there, too...) Thylacocephala Drepanosaurus Mimetaster Niolamia Erythrosuchus Cotylorhynchus Schinderhannes Amplectobelua Atopodentatus Incisivosaurus Sebecus Mekosuchus Vetulicolia Ascocerida Ornithoprion Anteosaurus Estemmenosuchus Megistotherium Jakapil
I love your drawings, they feel so incredible and you tips have really helped motivate me with my own drawing project. I’m currently making dragons off of states, provinces, countries and other forms of territory distribution for country’s of the world and I am slowly but surely improving both their designs as well as anatomical accuracies from a side view (I.e the feet I was not sure how to do those for a long while) and your style and artistic creativity have really inspired much of it, Godspeed.
Recently found your channel through fakemon work and I’m super impressed by your paleoart! I’ve been doodling archaeopteryx as of recent and know I wanna color them wildly funky colors for fun, so I’m getting a lot of inspiration from the cool whimsical ways you decided to color for this challenge :)
This was super fun! This was the first time I did one of these challenges and I made it all the way through! All the art looks amazing! Right now I’m designing my own raptors based on dogs for the coolest dinosaur! 🦖 😁
I'm sad you missed out on the coolest part of the irritator. It's jaws were designed to split and spread as it opened similar to a pelicans, but in a more drastic way.
One small thing: sauropods didn’t use their tails as whips, contrary to one of the little info blurbs calling one of their tails a weapon. If they did use their tails as whips, they would break them.
I love the style of these things, esspecially paired with the canvas design. Makes me want to see them in some kind of stylised Dino feild guide. Also, I'm hoping you'll do a challenge for the Paleozoic (or even Proterozoic) eventually. They have a lot of little-known and super cool species.
Thank you for talking about the benefits of having an informed approach to taking creative liberties! A lot of my frustration with bad dinosaur designs isn't necessarily that they ARE inaccurate (although I definitely do prefer anatomical accuracy). Artistic license is great, but I feel like the term gets thrown around a lot to defend generic or cliche dinosaur art that's clearly just imitating something like Jurassic Park, rather than making deliberate choices from an informed perspective. I think the recent dinosaur art in Magic The Gathering is a good example of outlandish and unrealistic choices being made while still keeping the base anatomy of the dinosaurs in mind. They stick out really clearly to me as art made by people who DO understand real dinosaur anatomy and are playing around with it to create something fantastical!
i really loved the different format for the first part of the video, would love to see that in future monthly art challenge videos! but i of course stuck around for the traditional format, it kept me company while crocheting a scarf! also was so fun to go on little google tangents whenever a dino i thought was particularly interesting came up! i've always loved your painting style, i remember watching the poke-armour videos from a couple years ago when i think you first started doing the digital painting style, and it's advanced so much since then!
It was a blast to follow your stuff throughout the month! Huge props to you for the dedication alone to keep going without letting the burnout creep up
There should be a professional namer working in scientific field. Whenever we let those scientist name animal whatever as long as it's latin it's either stupid or unrelated or edgy/nerdy af 😭 Look at birds! Who let the scientists name birds???
I luckily was able to manage to draw every prompt, but in some days I did forget to draw so I ended up drawing 2 dinosaurs on the next day, but I still had fun with this challenge
Really enjoyed this format! I followed the instagram updates each day as well, and I think the end-of-month wrap up + commentary is a great way to get your thoughts on the process. (Sorry, though, I can't pick a favourite -- there's too many I loved to choose between!)
I did mermay this year and I’m so proud of myself for committing to it and actually doing it to the end! I’ve never finished one of the monthly drawing challenges before despite having attempted inktober and/or mermay for over 5 years so I set some of my own ground rules for myself to prevent burnout. I figured I’d share them for anyone else who has that struggle too. 1) don’t be afraid to not entirely finish a piece! If you end the day with just line work, you’ve still completed a piece so be proud! 2) I allow myself to go back and work on a piece I either didn’t finish or just wasn’t satisfied with on a later day where I have more time or energy to draw 3) set a schedule and upload the pieces to a social media site. This will give you the motivation to follow through and not just give up entirely after a day or two with a tough prompt! I’d personally recommend posting them once a week or once in the middle of the month and the rest at the end of the month because that gives you enough time to do things in like redrawing an unsatisfactory day but still keep a concrete goal to work towards. 4)feel free to change one or two prompts if they really aren’t working for you! If you wouldn’t take a commission that touches on that prompt (I’m looking at you official mermay prompt day 25) then don’t force yourself. Try using a random word generator to get a prompt that inspires you.
Hell yeah, this was one hell of a great challenge! It was great to see such an awesome blend of both creative and fairly accurate depictions of extinct animals, some of which we new to someone like myself who literally is in the field of paleontology. It brings me great joy knowing that their are people not associated with the scientific community at all that are willing to invest time and effort into doing art of extinct animals, and doing the research necessary for that. People like you, being able to bridge the gap between the public and the science that your drawings oozed with, are what we need. People who can make drawings come to life, be creative, and still be accurate to a degree are what we as those in the scientific community need to have to allow for our knowledge to not just be our knowledge anymore, and sometimes educate us as well. Thank you, sincerely, for doing such an incredible amount of work in this challenge, and you definitely deserve however long of a break you want!
watching this, really did inspire me to try harder when it comes to paleoart, think with me i get too caught up into realism that i never try hard enough with full patterns and poses, great work
It's all about what you want to do with your Paleoart, but if you find yourself frustrated and getting hung up on the realism aspect, it might be a fun exercise to try and get a little more loose with it!
@@Subjectively think with me i aim to just depict the animal, but yeah i should try and experiment a bit and exercise on aspects, sounds like a fun way to pick on tricks for creature design in general thanks a bunch
I was watching got to 4 mins and wanted to download yalls brush kits so i paused the video I didn't know where to go so I googled theme and it came up, was going to leave a THANK YOU message for the new brushes I'm super excited message and so I hit play for the video to then show me where i could get the brushes haha 🤣🤣 Im really am looking forward to the brushes!
16:00 reptiles do have a third eye! the perineal eye is used to sense differences in light, specifically for avoiding attacks from behind or above (big birds) the evidence is also speculated that it was present on mosasaurus, after all they are relatives of monitor lizards
I really liked this month's format, with a community post every day and this long video at the end. I also LOVE watching your drawing process in a timelapse, please don't get rid of that part?
i did actually prefer this longer video format for a monthly drawing challenge over the shorter ones and it's fantastic that it's less taxing for you. I love your videos either way but I like to do other things while I watch youtube like drawing along or playing games with youtube in the corner of my screen so one long video means less swapping tabs and struggling to make a video queue. Additionally, youtube has been favouring longer videos over shorter ones so if you care about views, longer vids will be more likely to show up in peoples recommended feeds. I'm not sure if others share this sentiment, but I thought I'd share my two cents anyway. Great video as always. You and Claire both have such admirable passion for art and learning that always shines through in your work :)
0:18 OMFG You just explained to me why i have been lacking on my deawings!!!!! Soo context : i wanted to make a fan-made Godzilla series with new designs for kaiju and a made SEVERAL designs and some more redesigns. And one day i just got tired of it. I was getting more and more disappointed with my drawings and weren't living up to my standards if i even still had any. Soo, i gave up. I almost never draw anymore and your quote here just sums it up PERFECTLY
I have been planning on making videos about Paleo art, because that's one of my many passions!! I was literally drawing a raptor today!! So thank you for the insight!! 🥹🔥
It was nice following this art throughout May, being a big dinosaur fan myself. I'm honestly quite particular with how I like dinosaurs depicted, but the artistic skill and enthusiasm here made me enjoy the art anyways (I'm still kinda getting over things not being "scientifically accurate"). There were a few factual hiccups here and there, not that this "ruins" the art (there's a ton of older or inaccurate depictions of dinosaurs), but I'm the kinda of pedant that likes to talk about those things. Not going to act like an expert on every organism drawn here (I only know a decent bit about dinosaurs really), but one thing I thought you'd find interesting is the ankylosaur vs nodosaur classification. More recent studies find nodosaurs to be an arbitrary group instead of a valid group of related animals (animals with the nodosaur body plan look similar but aren't that closely related to each other). Now they're all just referred to as ankylosaurs and they've been split into a few different families within the group. If you are curious about dinosaur stuff I'd recommend the channels Your Dinosaurs are Wrong and Skeleton Crew. Both talked about the nodosaur bit and other cool dinosaury things in an engaging format. Sorry for the rambling, I like dinosaurs hah
So I use to watch Barney as a Kid and that kinda oddly started my love for Dinosaurs in General. Land before Time and 90s Dinosaur too..but it drove my Brother nuts to the point he tried to Scar me for life with Jurassic Park (no luck, it made me also love the gorey side.) Anyways it got to the point he hated Barney with a passion. So That Giga would scare him shitless.
this is awesome! the colors are very interesting, if probably not scientifically accurate (or inaccurate, necessarily!) Would love to see this but with paleozoic animals next time
53:16, funny thing is that based on studies so far it seems likely that rex was faster and more nimble than any other theropod in its size range. T. rex really is the main character of dinosaurs lol
I wasn't able to do most of them but had fun with the ones I did get, experimented with some different styles and went down some very interesting rabbitholes when researching and looking for references of the critters. There was a bit of hair pulling when I saw how little material there was for some of these animals lol. Overall it was a fun time drawing the one thing I'm somewhat confident I can do well. Gonna make it a goal to do a challenge that pulls me out of my comfort zone and actually do one illustration a day and see it through to the end
I actually really like the bright colors. Usually today we think of most megafauna as pretty dull, color-wise, but that's because most of today's megafauna are mammals, which have a relatively limited color palatte. When thinking about dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, it's important to keep in mind that there's at least a possibility they sported bright colors, especially since color can tell us a lot about how an animal lives. (Imagine not knowing what colors a peacock is, for example).
As someone who has observed and tried out these monthly challenges for years, I've always wondered how early do you start prepping for a project like this? Some days I can get in 3-4 hours of solid work in, but other days I just don't have the time to sit down and complete fully rendered illustrations. Personally I would need to plan for something like this months in advance in order to stay on top of everything.
19:30 What do you mean, 😂? Rhamphorhynchus was actually larger than Dimorphodon, with a 1.6+m wingspan to Dimorphodon's 1.45m. Dimorphodon had the bigger head, and so may have weighed slightly more, but tbh, most Pterosaurs in that time period were about the same size (or smaller).
So i know it’s out of nowhere, but i am super inspired by you. In fact, i decided to make my own pokemon region when i started watching your vids again.
I still have tons to work on the new card game I had an idea for almost three years and never finished because the first time I tried working on templates for the cards I got Covid and six months later I had an infected tooth and had to get oral surgery to remove it (which surprisingly didn’t hurt even though I was conscious my eyes were closed and my face was numb to the point I didn’t feel a thing when they removed the tooth) and although I’m okay now I haven’t made time to continue working on the card templates and now I’m working on a sequel to a novel I never intended on making a sequel for but when I made the boss monsters of the attributes I had to leave out I had to make them part of that multiverse
I looked up what you said about Cryodrakon..... It is officially Cryodrakon Borealis, but the guys naming it originally wanted the species name to be Crodrakon Viserion..... That is just the dorkiest thing I've ever heard in paleontology history!
Which day's illustration was your favorite?
dilophosaurus, my favorite dinosaur! also side note i really hope this continues to replace mermay, it's so much more fun in my opinion!!
Hatzegopteryx! I love Pterosaurs of all shapes and sizes, and you did him justice :)
Deinocheirus obviously
If I'm honest it's probably like a 10-way tie, but if I really HAVE to pick, I'll say Saltasaurus because it borders on plausible coloring while simultaneously being a super fun food reference, and unlike you when I was a kid I always thought the herbivorous dinos were cooler.
Shonisaurus. My favourite animals you drew are Tanystropheus and Deinocheirus, but my favourite illustration was definitely "Penguin". It really benefits from being in your comfort zone of "sea creature". Cute blubbery body, too.
3 things:
-Albertadromeus may not have been as boring as you thought. It is an Orodromine, a subfamily which also contains the genus Oryctodromeus, which we strongly suspect to be a burrower, as the fossils of a pair of them were found buried in a burrow chamber. As a close relative, Albertadromeus may also have shared this trait, which is not very common in dinosaurs!!
-"Kalligrammatid" is a family of insects (kalligrammatidae), not a particular genus, and not to be too harsh but you were kinda using it like a genus name. Genera in this family include the namesake Kalligramma, Oregramma, and Meioneurites among others.
-I really appreciate that you did this series, and the manner in which you did it as well. You shone a light on some really under-appreciated genera, as well as a whole bunch of non dinosaurs!! You are perhaps one of my favourite artists, and its been a real pleasure to see you tackling these animals in a way that feels both very "you" and very respectful to their appearance in life. Thank you Jack :)
Me, 20 minutes in:
_"that was a nice video,_
_I wonder what I'll watch next... "_
**looks at video length**
_"WHAT THE- "_
literally just happened to me as I read the comments
@@miolosdamari same
i did 24 days then i got burned out
Hell yeah! That's still 24 days of creating!!!
Thats very impressive!! 24 days of straight creative excercise is ROUGH for a lot of people, good job :)
Hell yeah brother
nice one brother, now take a good rest!
I got to 17 and then I burned out
18:53 hey! Pigeons are actually really cool! They're living tracking devices, they can make milk to feed their babies, they're incredibly strong flyers, and they're very very adorable!
THEY ARE THE MOST ADORABLE I MUST SAY
Don’t forget they are being used as a spy by the government
There's a polish candy called "bird's milk" , I didn't know it was actually a real thing!
They are also some of the only birds that can create suction in their mouths to drink, so they can drink directly from puddles and streams rather than having to scoop water into their beaks and then tip their heads back like most other birds
yes!
I don't usually comment on youtube videos, but as a fellow artist with zero interest in doing paleo art, I find this video super inspiring; your interpretation of these dinosaurs is so beautiful!!
irritator! my state university here in brazil has a statue of it crawling out of the roof of one of the science bffuildings, it looks more like a dragon than anything there, but i love your version of it! there's been some petitions recently to get the fossil back from germany to brazil just like the ubirajara was.
Wait that sounds awesome! What university?
@@Subjectively UFC (federal university of ceará) its on a educational building called "seara da ciencia", its the state where most of the araripe basin is located so most brazillian fossils come from here its really cool
On the topic of elemental dinosaurs, Dinosaurs King solidified specific elements to prehistoric animals for me. Thyreophorans, which include stegosaurs and ankylosaurus, being associated with the earth with armor as far as rock, or ceratopsians being electric with their horns acting as lightning rods, or even smaller carnivores like maniraprors or abelisaurs being associated with wind all just for for me
for the hybodus the illustration lacks a few important details that inform us of its ecology
the labial cartilages are missing, these are peices of cartilage around the mouth that support "cheeks"
like nurse sharks or wobbegongs the relatives of hybodus and hybodus itself had these as most of these animals were benthic (lived on or near the ocean floor)
the illustration also forgets the spiracle, a hole behind the head that allows many sharks to breath while on the ocean floor as most sharks dont need to constantly swim (only a few species need to)
for the atlanticopristis these animals are always drawn as giant sawfish but thats actually not at all what they look like, they were related to skates and had waaaay more spikey bits than people think. they had these large denticles covering their bodies and on the sides of the head in addition to the rostral ones. these animals also were a lot smaller than usually depicted, being only 3-4m
they were more wide as they were related to skates. we also have body fossils of these animals showing they werent big sawfish
43:52 fun fact, Crichton's Jurassic Park novel Dilophosaurus is much closer to being scientifically accurate than the film adaptation of the animal. The only real difference being the venom spitting ability, but there is no frill and it is much larger than a person.
That sagely tortoise is so cool!
We'll be sure to get that finished at some point ;)
YES MORE MONTH ART VIDEOS
Can we get next month in next weeks video?
The Cheezit Sauropod was the one that got me laughing 🤣
Sameee
I was like: No wonder! Hahaha
17:31 Giganotosaurus looking like he's gonna teach me how to pretend, the A B Cs, the 1 2 3s and how to be a friend.
bro looks like he’s a dinosaur from our imagination, a dinosaur sensation, if you will.
Oh my god I followed you in insta but didn’t know it was you!! I have to say it, yours was always my favorite Paleoart to see :3
How bout "hextember" drawings demons for september?
I HAVE TO KNOW
Have you played or at least seen Fossil Fighters designs? They each have such cool designs based off of their original location of discovery in the real world or about their name etymology.
That game (among other things) really engraved paleontology into my mind and created my hyperfixation on prehistoric creatures.
I actually made 3D models of some fanmade vivosaurs for a lot of this challenge! I themed my whole interpretation of the challenge around Fossil Fighters, haha. Very excited that Jack posted his wrapup video already!
My favorite example of Fossil Fighters designs taking heavy influence from their place or origin or name is their carcharodontosaurus design. It has a head of a shark to reference the "shark-toothed" bit in their name, and it is given patterns and colors reminiscent of Egyptian art as some of its fossils have been found in Egypt! Sure it may not be a particularly accurate design, but the fact the design pays tribute to all these fun facts surrounding the dinosaur is nice.
@@NanBraebyrd Are those in the Discord? I'm gonna check those out!
@@xemiii That's the go-to when I talk about Fossil Fighters designs to newcomers. Also I like Megalosaurus having a bland grey design because it was the first named non-avian dinosaur so it's meant to be a blank slate.
And Kronasaurus named after Chronos the titan of time and it has roman numerals to signify dates and time.
@@TheCayDawg Yes! And also on my TikTok/Instagram, hahaha. I hope you like them!!
this took me back to my childhood-dinosaur obsessed days😌😌
Loved the video! Always fun to see your month challenges.
I will say i think i prefer the old style videos more, i love hearing you direct thought process for each speedpaint, seeing them in order, as well as seeing the whole process (i feel like in the earlier section of the video it often cut out and felt a little unsatisfying?). Its also exciting to see the updates each week and get more of a personal “doing the challenge with you” each week rather than a huge dump at the end. Shorter videos are more likely for me to watch as they come out also. I hope this feedback helps! I still really enjoyed hearing your overview thoughts so maybe you could make a conclusion video at the end of the month thats a little longer to include that? Dunno!
*edit: also wanted to say i dont think the narrative is necessarily what i miss just the format of videos. I enjoy hearing art processes more than narrative( tho both are good!)
21:34
Oh I love this. I recognize this and I love it.
Fossil fighters forever. Oh this is so cool.
Into the terrestrial croc topic there's a lot of extinct crocs that were full terrestrial and competed with theropods in South America specially
Baurusuchids in Mesozoic and Sebecosuchia in Cenozoic
There were something like a hellish combination of a crocodilian and a big cat, with strong jaws and armored body
This sounds like heaven, drawing dinosaurs (and other prehistoric animals) for a month!
When you next do Maysozoic, I would love to see your take on Halszkaraptor/Natovenator, the duck dinosaurs aren’t complete with just Deinocherius.
You should do Jurassic June(not sure if it's a thing allready but you seemed to enjoy this one)
I really like this format of video!!! Being split between the quick fun summary retrospect, then having more detailed segments for people who want it! However, people can't tell that from a glance, so it's very likely a lot of people were intimidated by the hour long timestamp, and unfortunately with how videos are based on watchtime, if people only watch the first 20 mins (as you say they can do), RUclips sees it as a "this person didn't want to watch the whole video" and counts it against it. RIP youtube algorithm messing it up
Your art makes me smile, it's so awesome and out there
Additional dino facts time!
12:48 Kaprosuchus might not have been terrestrial, but there are plenty alternatives. Like the entire Sebecid and Mekosuchid families, which lived until ~1600BCE . We are living in the first era without land crocs since crocs existed. Kinda sad. (Though Mekosuchus itself was an adorable squirrel-like thing, it's family was appropriately ferocious)
13:10 Speaking of names already being taken, there's Titanoptera (titanic wings), the proposed name for the azhdarchid pterosaurs. Already taken by extinct insects, with a 14-40cm wingspan. Also, say hello to Tyrannasorus rex (beetle) and Megalodon (clam), named to be as confusing as possible.
13:14 A funny thing about Pterosaur wing membranes is that their air sac system likely extended into it, giving a smooth transition from arm to membrane and an airfoil-like cross section.
13:35 Gotta disagree there, the best of both ankylosaurs and sauropods clearly goes to Shunosaurus, a sauropod with a tail club.
14:40 Over the last decade paleontologists have become really good at identifying if a skeleton is from a young or adult animal. Thus "junior synonyms" have become quite common. But there are also a few where it turned out t be wrong, like the proposal that Torosaurus is a grown-up Triceratops. And people still argue about Nanotyrannus being a teenage T. rex or not. (though probably yes)
15:24 The Carnotaurus specimen also includes skin impressions, incredibly rare for a fossil of this size. In fact, it may even have had impressions of the head and horns - but they were carved away before people realised what they were... Which is why nowadays, fossils are often left in their rock and only CT scanned instead, to avoid breaking anything getting to the bone.
Also gotta comment on Carnotaurs' (and Abelisaurs in general) screwed up little arms. The upper and lower arms are fused into one bone, most of the fingers are short a few bones and immobile, and what looks like a fourth finger is actually a wrist bone sticking out in a random direction. But nevertheless, they must have used them for something, as the shoulder joint is not only still functional, but with more mobility than other theropods.
Showing them flap them about in as a courtship display is a common, and hilarious, theory.
16:00 ...most amphibians and reptiles actually have a third eye, the parietal eye. It's just a little light sensor wired directly into their brain's pineal gland, which regulates the day/night cycle. And in the early 1900s it was a common mystical belief that even though humans don't have one anymore, the pineal gland may still allow you to view the supernatural. So yeah, magical third eye.
(Some mosasaurs have particularly large holes in their skulls, indicating a well-developed parietal eye. Probably for deep-diving and low-light conditions.)
16:16 Yep, Dilophosaurs were big boys. In the Jurassic Park novel they were still properly sized, as Nedry's death scene describes one lifting him by his head before crushing it. (The Jurassic Park novels are metal, strongly recommend.) In the movie he has a throwaway line about it being "smaller than your brothers" or something to suggest it was only a baby.
18:23 there's a particularly awesome Kalligrammatid species that not only had eyespots, but straight-up mimicked the entire head of a small theropod to scare off attackers. They sat with wings folded back like a moth, so it's got the triangular shape already, add an eyespot at the back and a series of light stripes at the front wing edge to make a toothy maw. Boom! Theropod head.
(Pattern is known as it was preserved in amber.)
19:17 The idea that Tanystropheus could sever it's tail like a lizard came about because to this day, it's not quite clear which clade it belongs to. (Like a lot of triassic weirdos) Nowadays people tend towards making it an archosaur, but for a while it was a true lizard. This belief was strengthened as finding severd tails (and necks) is quite common, but those probably weren't dropped voluntarily. They just make for a great chomping target.
(The Nigel Marven dinosaur documentaries were my favourites as a kid, and still are.)
19:29 Dimorphodon has one thing more in common with your dog, it was more of a runner than a flyer! Unlike the bats they are often compared to, pterosaurs were very mobile on the ground as well. Pterosaurs with back legs close to their arm length were terrestrial, with a gallopping stride. (Though there were also a few that were helpless on land, like the nyctosaur family that lost their fingers)
I love this format. I often struggle with the narrative based monthly challenges. Like you do you, the narrative is interesting but I always find them difficult to watch in art videos (I know that's a personal thing and a lot of people like it). I really want the art insights, design processes, etc. and I love dinos. So this really spoke to me.
Let’s goooo ! An hour long paleo themed vid from my fav art ytb and I get to be in the art credit section.
On an other note ty it’s been years since I discovered you and you allaways inspired me to become a better artist
Just a tip on Aegisuchus, the skull is estimated at up to 2.86 meters/9.4 feet, although about 2 meters/6.7 feet or less is more likely, but the whole animal would have been much larger. The specimen is very fragmentary but the full size of the animal would likely be between 10-15 meters, with the lower range of that estimate being more plausible. Also a little nitpick with Carnotaurus, the fossil was actually preserved with some skin and what were thought to be osteoderms like you portrayed. Later analysis has determined that those osteoderms were not actually osteoderms and they were not placed in an organized fashion (it took so long to realize this since the much of preserved skin skin got destroyed after being excavated, although not all of it, so we only have photos now of much of what was preserved), instead they were large scales placed at random. Love your art.
Small pterosaur wing nitpick :
- your Dimorphodon and Hadzegopteryx seems to lack the pteroid bone (Hadzegopteryx in particular seem to miss the propatagium all together.
- The wrist on your Dimorphodon seem to be very short or inexistant witch makes it look like the propatagium is attach to the base of the digits.
- Speaking of finger, why is there only 2 visible, it should be 3 and pointing on the other direction.
- Lastly, I don’t know if it’s a perspective issue but the uropatagium should probably be connected to the digit 5 that is absent on the hindlimb.
I am not going to comment on the shrinkrapping since I think it’s the style you were going for.
Anyway, love your videos, and I adore your take on the species you depicted.
Thanks for making this challenge! I enjoyed seeing all these new creatures each day and suggesting a few names, too. I was also thrilled when I saw you had hearted my suggestion of Colleen for the Killigrammatid butterfly guy 🦋. And while I didn't draw along or research, thanks for showing me all these cool guys!
Was awesome following along, as a paleo nerd I always love stylised accuracy like this. My favourite is probably Opal the Sauropelta, love the shading on the spikes.
I'ma just drop some of my favourite obscure/funny prehistoric critters that you might find interesting.
(There's a lot of crabs in there, too...)
Thylacocephala
Drepanosaurus
Mimetaster
Niolamia
Erythrosuchus
Cotylorhynchus
Schinderhannes
Amplectobelua
Atopodentatus
Incisivosaurus
Sebecus
Mekosuchus
Vetulicolia
Ascocerida
Ornithoprion
Anteosaurus
Estemmenosuchus
Megistotherium
Jakapil
I liked the lore + 1 at a time drawing combo
I’ve been waiting for the speed draw and commentary I love them honestly I’m old school
I love your drawings, they feel so incredible and you tips have really helped motivate me with my own drawing project. I’m currently making dragons off of states, provinces, countries and other forms of territory distribution for country’s of the world and I am slowly but surely improving both their designs as well as anatomical accuracies from a side view (I.e the feet I was not sure how to do those for a long while) and your style and artistic creativity have really inspired much of it, Godspeed.
HELL YEAH PALEO ART!!!!
Personally i prefer the 2nd half of the video with the full timelapses and explanations, but i also like the first part
Recently found your channel through fakemon work and I’m super impressed by your paleoart! I’ve been doodling archaeopteryx as of recent and know I wanna color them wildly funky colors for fun, so I’m getting a lot of inspiration from the cool whimsical ways you decided to color for this challenge :)
Wasn't sure about the new format at first but I think it really works.
This was super fun! This was the first time I did one of these challenges and I made it all the way through! All the art looks amazing! Right now I’m designing my own raptors based on dogs for the coolest dinosaur! 🦖 😁
Maysozoic was my first completed may art challenge! It was so much fun
I'm sad you missed out on the coolest part of the irritator. It's jaws were designed to split and spread as it opened similar to a pelicans, but in a more drastic way.
One small thing: sauropods didn’t use their tails as whips, contrary to one of the little info blurbs calling one of their tails a weapon. If they did use their tails as whips, they would break them.
I love the style of these things, esspecially paired with the canvas design. Makes me want to see them in some kind of stylised Dino feild guide. Also, I'm hoping you'll do a challenge for the Paleozoic (or even Proterozoic) eventually. They have a lot of little-known and super cool species.
OMG I was following these artworks on instagram so closely because I was in love with the style, I didn't even clock that it was you!
Thank you for talking about the benefits of having an informed approach to taking creative liberties! A lot of my frustration with bad dinosaur designs isn't necessarily that they ARE inaccurate (although I definitely do prefer anatomical accuracy). Artistic license is great, but I feel like the term gets thrown around a lot to defend generic or cliche dinosaur art that's clearly just imitating something like Jurassic Park, rather than making deliberate choices from an informed perspective.
I think the recent dinosaur art in Magic The Gathering is a good example of outlandish and unrealistic choices being made while still keeping the base anatomy of the dinosaurs in mind. They stick out really clearly to me as art made by people who DO understand real dinosaur anatomy and are playing around with it to create something fantastical!
really sick, especially all the explantions/stories for each dino. I liked the first one's pose a lot and the crystal spiked dino
i really loved the different format for the first part of the video, would love to see that in future monthly art challenge videos! but i of course stuck around for the traditional format, it kept me company while crocheting a scarf! also was so fun to go on little google tangents whenever a dino i thought was particularly interesting came up! i've always loved your painting style, i remember watching the poke-armour videos from a couple years ago when i think you first started doing the digital painting style, and it's advanced so much since then!
It was a blast to follow your stuff throughout the month! Huge props to you for the dedication alone to keep going without letting the burnout creep up
I'm ngl part of me wishes Jack referenced Fossil Fighters in one of these designs but I love them all regardless
1:06:39 It is actually 14 Non Dino to 16 Dino! Quite balanced if you ask me
Speaking of wacky dinosaur names I learnt that there's a Pterosaur called Thanatosdrakon, which legit just sounds like someone's edgy DnD character
It kinda does! XD but it's that fun edge cringe you look back on
Wait till you hear about the name saurophaganax
I mean come on it means lord of the lizard eaters!
There should be a professional namer working in scientific field. Whenever we let those scientist name animal whatever as long as it's latin it's either stupid or unrelated or edgy/nerdy af 😭 Look at birds! Who let the scientists name birds???
Miap... "The shadow of death that kills with the cold wind"
I luckily was able to manage to draw every prompt, but in some days I did forget to draw so I ended up drawing 2 dinosaurs on the next day, but I still had fun with this challenge
Really enjoyed this format! I followed the instagram updates each day as well, and I think the end-of-month wrap up + commentary is a great way to get your thoughts on the process. (Sorry, though, I can't pick a favourite -- there's too many I loved to choose between!)
I did mermay this year and I’m so proud of myself for committing to it and actually doing it to the end! I’ve never finished one of the monthly drawing challenges before despite having attempted inktober and/or mermay for over 5 years so I set some of my own ground rules for myself to prevent burnout. I figured I’d share them for anyone else who has that struggle too.
1) don’t be afraid to not entirely finish a piece! If you end the day with just line work, you’ve still completed a piece so be proud!
2) I allow myself to go back and work on a piece I either didn’t finish or just wasn’t satisfied with on a later day where I have more time or energy to draw
3) set a schedule and upload the pieces to a social media site. This will give you the motivation to follow through and not just give up entirely after a day or two with a tough prompt! I’d personally recommend posting them once a week or once in the middle of the month and the rest at the end of the month because that gives you enough time to do things in like redrawing an unsatisfactory day but still keep a concrete goal to work towards.
4)feel free to change one or two prompts if they really aren’t working for you! If you wouldn’t take a commission that touches on that prompt (I’m looking at you official mermay prompt day 25) then don’t force yourself. Try using a random word generator to get a prompt that inspires you.
saltasaurus is my favorite dinosaur! i had a toy of one as a kid and i called it a salt-back dinosaur because it really did look like rock salt lol
Hell yeah, this was one hell of a great challenge!
It was great to see such an awesome blend of both creative and fairly accurate depictions of extinct animals, some of which we new to someone like myself who literally is in the field of paleontology.
It brings me great joy knowing that their are people not associated with the scientific community at all that are willing to invest time and effort into doing art of extinct animals, and doing the research necessary for that. People like you, being able to bridge the gap between the public and the science that your drawings oozed with, are what we need. People who can make drawings come to life, be creative, and still be accurate to a degree are what we as those in the scientific community need to have to allow for our knowledge to not just be our knowledge anymore, and sometimes educate us as well.
Thank you, sincerely, for doing such an incredible amount of work in this challenge, and you definitely deserve however long of a break you want!
The Carnotaurus' color scheme really looks like the one from Dinosaur King
watching this, really did inspire me to try harder when it comes to paleoart, think with me i get too caught up into realism that i never try hard enough with full patterns and poses, great work
It's all about what you want to do with your Paleoart, but if you find yourself frustrated and getting hung up on the realism aspect, it might be a fun exercise to try and get a little more loose with it!
@@Subjectively think with me i aim to just depict the animal, but yeah i should try and experiment a bit and exercise on aspects, sounds like a fun way to pick on tricks for creature design in general
thanks a bunch
I was watching got to 4 mins and wanted to download yalls brush kits so i paused the video I didn't know where to go so I googled theme and it came up, was going to leave a THANK YOU message for the new brushes I'm super excited message and so I hit play for the video to then show me where i could get the brushes haha 🤣🤣 Im really am looking forward to the brushes!
16:00 reptiles do have a third eye! the perineal eye is used to sense differences in light, specifically for avoiding attacks from behind or above (big birds) the evidence is also speculated that it was present on mosasaurus, after all they are relatives of monitor lizards
I'm so delighted you started with my favorite Kaprosuchus!!!! THE BOOOOOYYYY!
I’ve been waiting excitedly for this video
I love the combination of May in Mesozoic
loved the presentation of all the drawings! so fun to watch :D
14:23 This design reminds me of the Shonisaurus from a certain game focused on building a dinosaur zoo
I really liked this month's format, with a community post every day and this long video at the end. I also LOVE watching your drawing process in a timelapse, please don't get rid of that part?
i did actually prefer this longer video format for a monthly drawing challenge over the shorter ones and it's fantastic that it's less taxing for you. I love your videos either way but I like to do other things while I watch youtube like drawing along or playing games with youtube in the corner of my screen so one long video means less swapping tabs and struggling to make a video queue. Additionally, youtube has been favouring longer videos over shorter ones so if you care about views, longer vids will be more likely to show up in peoples recommended feeds. I'm not sure if others share this sentiment, but I thought I'd share my two cents anyway. Great video as always. You and Claire both have such admirable passion for art and learning that always shines through in your work :)
Loved this idea! I laughed at the Cheez-It reference. Would love more dinos and prehistoric animals with colorations based on snack foods.
0:18 OMFG You just explained to me why i have been lacking on my deawings!!!!! Soo context : i wanted to make a fan-made Godzilla series with new designs for kaiju and a made SEVERAL designs and some more redesigns. And one day i just got tired of it. I was getting more and more disappointed with my drawings and weren't living up to my standards if i even still had any. Soo, i gave up. I almost never draw anymore and your quote here just sums it up PERFECTLY
I have been planning on making videos about Paleo art, because that's one of my many passions!! I was literally drawing a raptor today!! So thank you for the insight!! 🥹🔥
I love your art so much! Really inspiring
It was nice following this art throughout May, being a big dinosaur fan myself. I'm honestly quite particular with how I like dinosaurs depicted, but the artistic skill and enthusiasm here made me enjoy the art anyways (I'm still kinda getting over things not being "scientifically accurate").
There were a few factual hiccups here and there, not that this "ruins" the art (there's a ton of older or inaccurate depictions of dinosaurs), but I'm the kinda of pedant that likes to talk about those things. Not going to act like an expert on every organism drawn here (I only know a decent bit about dinosaurs really), but one thing I thought you'd find interesting is the ankylosaur vs nodosaur classification. More recent studies find nodosaurs to be an arbitrary group instead of a valid group of related animals (animals with the nodosaur body plan look similar but aren't that closely related to each other). Now they're all just referred to as ankylosaurs and they've been split into a few different families within the group.
If you are curious about dinosaur stuff I'd recommend the channels Your Dinosaurs are Wrong and Skeleton Crew. Both talked about the nodosaur bit and other cool dinosaury things in an engaging format.
Sorry for the rambling, I like dinosaurs hah
I WAS SO FUCKING EXCITED FOR THIS YEAHHHH YESS FUCK YES ITS ONE HOUR LONG YESS I LOVE YOU SUBJECTIVELY
Been enjoying seeing these as they came out, exited to see your process
Will your brushes be available for Clip Studio Paint as well in the future? Because they look and sound amazing.
Dude you def dont have a problem, I WISH I could draw this much. Youre awesome
So I use to watch Barney as a Kid and that kinda oddly started my love for Dinosaurs in General. Land before Time and 90s Dinosaur too..but it drove my Brother nuts to the point he tried to Scar me for life with Jurassic Park (no luck, it made me also love the gorey side.)
Anyways it got to the point he hated Barney with a passion.
So That Giga would scare him shitless.
YAAAAAAAY I WAS HOPING THERE WOULD HE A VIDEO ABOUT THIS AND ITS AN HOUR LONG?? YIPEEE
this is awesome! the colors are very interesting, if probably not scientifically accurate (or inaccurate, necessarily!)
Would love to see this but with paleozoic animals next time
Great format. Really enjoyed the breakdowns
53:16, funny thing is that based on studies so far it seems likely that rex was faster and more nimble than any other theropod in its size range. T. rex really is the main character of dinosaurs lol
I wasn't able to do most of them but had fun with the ones I did get, experimented with some different styles and went down some very interesting rabbitholes when researching and looking for references of the critters. There was a bit of hair pulling when I saw how little material there was for some of these animals lol. Overall it was a fun time drawing the one thing I'm somewhat confident I can do well. Gonna make it a goal to do a challenge that pulls me out of my comfort zone and actually do one illustration a day and see it through to the end
Aurornis had 3 fingers, not 2.
So did most other Mesozoic "birds"
My birthday month had dinosaur drawings and I didn't know!?
I actually really like the bright colors. Usually today we think of most megafauna as pretty dull, color-wise, but that's because most of today's megafauna are mammals, which have a relatively limited color palatte. When thinking about dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, it's important to keep in mind that there's at least a possibility they sported bright colors, especially since color can tell us a lot about how an animal lives. (Imagine not knowing what colors a peacock is, for example).
I would go insane for a dinosaur collectable monster game!
so glad theres a video so these arent just restricted to instagram. i dont have an instagram
nice dkc music!!!!!!! from returns i think
I’ve been waiting for this all month
Were my kaijune at? I want my kaijune!
As someone who has observed and tried out these monthly challenges for years, I've always wondered how early do you start prepping for a project like this? Some days I can get in 3-4 hours of solid work in, but other days I just don't have the time to sit down and complete fully rendered illustrations. Personally I would need to plan for something like this months in advance in order to stay on top of everything.
I was doing a “draw until I can draw challenge” and my first category was gonna be dinosaurs!
I love how you pronounced Atlanticopristis, you sound so giddy about it!
before even watching this i can tell this video is gonna be SICK AS FUCK!!
19:30 What do you mean, 😂? Rhamphorhynchus was actually larger than Dimorphodon, with a 1.6+m wingspan to Dimorphodon's 1.45m. Dimorphodon had the bigger head, and so may have weighed slightly more, but tbh, most Pterosaurs in that time period were about the same size (or smaller).
So i know it’s out of nowhere, but i am super inspired by you. In fact, i decided to make my own pokemon region when i started watching your vids again.
I still have tons to work on the new card game I had an idea for almost three years and never finished because the first time I tried working on templates for the cards I got Covid and six months later I had an infected tooth and had to get oral surgery to remove it (which surprisingly didn’t hurt even though I was conscious my eyes were closed and my face was numb to the point I didn’t feel a thing when they removed the tooth) and although I’m okay now I haven’t made time to continue working on the card templates and now I’m working on a sequel to a novel I never intended on making a sequel for but when I made the boss monsters of the attributes I had to leave out I had to make them part of that multiverse
Just one small correction, sauropeltra was indeed in the clade ankilosauria but in the family nodosauridae.
Very nice video tho
I love Gus the Aegisuchus, I really love his lower body glowy look too
I looked up what you said about Cryodrakon..... It is officially Cryodrakon Borealis, but the guys naming it originally wanted the species name to be Crodrakon Viserion..... That is just the dorkiest thing I've ever heard in paleontology history!