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Dinosaur drawings this year and Dinovember

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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. Centrosaurus 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. Dilophosaurus - without the frill and spitting poison  Therizinosaurus 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 gets stuck from moment to moment and is not flowing constantly and reliab...