Andi Pasti's Animal Art

Have you watched the dinosaur show "Chased by dinosaurs" with Nigel Marven, a TV program from 2002?  It was made in the aftermath of "Walking with dinosaurs", which was a huge success in the realms of paleo-documentaries. This time, instead of being a serious documentary, it uses a time-travel approach. It features the wildlife presenter Nigel Marven running around in real locations in search for dinosaurs. Well, and what is hilarious is, he gets frequently too close to these supposedly dangerous animals. In real life, you wouldn't probably do that. So that's why I had to make a parody (and admittedly I had enough spare time). (Click on the image to view a bigger version) What is even more exciting for me, I met Nigel Marven years later at a Tetzoocon in 2023, report here:  https://tetzoo.com/blog/2023/12/15/tetzoocon-2023-the-report Nigel was nice enough to stay around and talk with people, but there was such a huge queue that I couldn't have been bothe...

Last year I drew a Centrosaurus with ink and grey markers on brown-toned paper. I’ve bought that paper two years ago and never used it properly, but I figured out that it’s quite handy.  With a mid-toned paper you only need to care about shadows and highlights because the mid-tone is already provided by the paper itself. On white background you have to establish this mid-tone yourself. I decide to use this paper block to fill it with dinosaurs drawn in that style. Over the past year I tried to fill the pages with some species that I like, not the usual ones that get much media attention. Centrosaurus Dilophosaurus - those frills from Jurassic Park were added for fun Therizinosaurus - in fluffy Challenges from drawing with traditional pens  Technically I discovered some challenges which tampered with my joy: I use some black fine liners from Faber-Castell, 0.1-0.3 mm for the outlines or black shadows. These are fine! for whites I use a gel pen, probably low quality, as the ink ...