Events Gallery "A Land Apart from Time" - Jurassic June 2019 Challenge

"Breathe Deep. Seek Peace." - Old Dinotopian saying


Art from Dinotopia - James Gurney

Jurassic June has returned! I'm sure some of you are familiar with the drawing challenge, where you create prehistoric related art for the month of June. It be fun to create and share what we come up with in this thread.

A week of colours will be award for the winning entries at the end of the month.

 

I am interested to do this, but I've never drawn dinosaurs. Surprising, I know Might try some woolly mammoths though, those guys are cute.

 

i might too lol

 

oof

 

Technically, birds came from a class of dinosaurs. Protofeathers evolved back then and there has been fossil evidence of some sporting plumage.

Trying to capture that look artistically has been a bit tricky though I think James Gurney has done a wonderful job with some of his works, especially in Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara. Some references for inspiration.

 

There will be more inspiration soon enough, given that they have announced the Jurassic World animated series.

 

While I'm not sure what to draw for this, I gotta say that illustration had me intrigued enough to look up "Dinotopia". I kind of want to check out the books now.

 

You should, also I think there was an old Hallmark series.

 

Definitely worth checking out. A few years ago they released a special 20th anniversary edition of the books. The original artworks were rescanned and a special "Making of" section at the end. James Gurney does a blog which is has some great tips and resources for artists.

There was to be a film back in the 90s but that had unfortunately fell through though. That was before the prequels started production and there had been controversy when TPM had came out due to some of the similarities Theed shared with Waterfall City. Interesting article regarding that bit of history here.

There was a Walt Disney TV / Hallmark miniseries that lead into a tv series that only went for 1 season.

I probably went a bit overboard there I grew up with the books and his works has been an inspiration for me.

 

Hey, it's a Star Wars forum. We all gotta geek out every now and then.

 

Ooh, sounds intriguing, can't wait to see what you come up with!!

 

could become an art/textiles challenge

 

Here's what I came up with... Kinda inspired by those triceratops illustrations:

 

Love his face, looks great

 

Wonderful works, I love the Ceratopsian you've created, @Togruta and also the Plesiosaur you've created @Adalia-Durron

It's hard to choose as both are great and you both worked with different mediums. You both are awarded colours and title for a week. Congratulations!

To round out June, the piece I worked on is of a Parasaurolophus: